Florida’s Attorney General Asks Court to Stop Funding to Planned Parenthood

Florida’s Attorney General seeks to stop state money from going to Planned Parenthood.
Attorney General Ashley Moody is asking the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee to vacate an injunction it issued in 2016 that stopped the enforcement of a Florida law defunding abortion clinics.
The court’s rationale, Moody said, was based on the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
Now, Moody argues in the state’s filing, the legal basis for the injunction no longer exists.
Planned Parenthood passes out free signs, T-shirts, stickers, and water to people attending an abortion rights rally with Vice President Kamala Harris in Tallahassee, Fla., on Jan. 22, 2023. (Courtesy of Natasha Holt)
The Supreme Court’s ruling in June 2022 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade….