The US doesn’t have to immediately restore more than $7 million in family planning program money to Tennessee because the state has refused to comply with the conditions for receiving the funds, government attorneys said.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday urged the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to deny the state’s request for a preliminary order requiring the agency to lift Title X’s abortion referral provision for the state because the procedure is largely illegal there.
Title X is the only federal program that funds family planning programs, and HHS has ...