A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs [View all]
Source: AP
Updated 3:28 PM EDT, October 7, 2025
A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump’s orders aimed at curtailing “radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology.”
The ruling is a victory for three Planned Parenthood affiliates — in California, Iowa and New York — that sued to try to block enforcement of a U.S. Department of Human Services policy document issued in July that they contend contradict the requirements of the grants as established by Congress.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, blasted the administration’s policy change in her written ruling, saying it was “motivated solely by political concerns, devoid of any considered process or analysis, and ignorant of the statutory emphasis on evidence-based programming.”
The policy requiring changes to the pregnancy prevention program was part of the fallout from a series of executive orders Trump signed starting in his first day back in the White House aimed at rolling back recognition of LGBTQ+ people and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/teen-pregnancy-prevention-grant-ruling-d9975d48e6df123abb7b5d8a30a38812
Link to RULING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283155/gov.uscourts.dcd.283155.32.0.pdf
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