Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Administration Cuts Funding To U.N. Program, Saying It Supported Coercive Abortions
The Trump administration is cutting off U.S. funding to the United Nations agency for reproductive health under an abortion-related provision in law that Democratic and Republican administrations have used as a cudgel in the global culture wars. (Lederman, 4/4)
A U.S. federal judge blocked an Indiana measure requiring women to have an ultrasound at least 18 hours before undergoing an abortion, saying that the mandate was unnecessary and a burden to low-income women. The preliminary injunction, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt on Friday, was the result of a lawsuit brought last year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky against Indiana's Department of Health and local officials. (Mclaughlin, 4/3)
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin estimates it could keep open only two of its 19 family planning clinics — those in Milwaukee and Madison — if it was barred from billing Medicaid programs. (Boulton and Stein, 4/3)
