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Abené Clayton

Supreme court allows US to withhold Oklahoma’s family planning fund

A group gathered on the street holding signs with pro-choice slogans
Abortion rights advocates gather outside the Oklahoma capitol in April 2022 to protest several anti-abortion bills being considered by the GOP-led legislature. Photograph: Sean Murphy/AP

The US supreme court will allow the Biden administration to withhold millions of dollars in grant money from the state of Oklahoma over its refusal to provide information about abortion providers to patients who seek it. In an order released on Tuesday, the nine-member court said an injunction filed by the state had been denied in a 6-3 decision. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were the three who would have granted Oklahoma’s application for relief.

Tuesday’s order reaffirms two previous lower-court decisions in which judges determined a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration by the state of Oklahoma over the taking back of the funds was unlikely to succeed.

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