By TOM DAVIES
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â A federal judge on Wednesday blocked an Indiana law that would require doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a disputed treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process.
The ruling came just before the so-called abortion reversal law adopted by Indianaâs Republican-dominated Legislature was to take effect Thursday. The temporary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon in Indianapolis puts the law on hold while the lawsuit challenging it makes its way through court.
Hanlon ruled that the abortion-rights groups had a âreasonable likelihoodâ of proving that the requirement would violate free speech rights of abortion providers. He also found that the state had not proven the effectiveness of the reversal process, which involves taking a different medication rather than the second of the two drugs involved in the procedure.
Iowa Supreme Court upholds law barring Planned Parenthood from sex education grants Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:08 PM
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a 2019 law that blocks federal funds from Planned Parenthood to provide young Iowans with sex education curriculum, overturning a district court decision that ruled that law unconstitutional. With a 6-1 vote from the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the state, the justices decided the law preventing Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from receiving two federal grants allocated to support sex education and related services to youths does not violate the provider’s equal protection rights.
Missouri State Capitol dome
The Federal Reimbursement Allowance Tax on health care providers will continue funding the state’s portion of Medicaid. The House also passed a bill Wednesday defunding Planned Parenthood, but its future is unclear.
JEFFERSON CITY A bill to renew a tax that funds Missouri’s portion of Medicaid made its way to Gov. Mike Parson to sign into law, just hours before the state’s new fiscal year was to begin.
The House on Wednesday approved the renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance tax during the special session Parson called to address the issue. Not renewing it would have cost the state billions in revenue and federal dollars.
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Nebraska plans to stop reporting coronavirus numbers online after Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that it plans to retire the online dashboard that it has used to report statistics on the coronavirus pandemic for more than a year. The current state virus emergency also is set to expire on Wednesday, and along with that Nebraska will eliminate the last few social distancing guidelines that remain in place. As of its final update Wednesday, the state had reported 224,488 virus cases and 2,261 deaths linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Nebraska said that 28 people across the state are currently hospitalized with the virus.
DES MOINES, Iowa The Iowa Supreme Court
reversed a lower court’s order, which had struck down sections of a bill imposing funding conditions that prohibited abortion providers from participating in two federally funded sex education grant programs. The high court ruled the law does not violate Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s equal protection rights because it doesn’t affect the right to obtain or provide abortions.