U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper halted the Trump administration’s changes to the federal Teen Pregnancy Program in a preliminary injunction he granted on Wednesday.
These changes include cutting funding for dozens of grants to groups that taught teenagers about contraception, how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
New guidance for grantees required that they teach about abstinence, “body literacy” and fertility. Now, the Department of Health and Human Services cannot use the new guidance when giving out grants. Still, Cooper did not reinstate funding to groups that lost it because “because of lingering uncertainty over the Court’s power to order such relief,” Bloomberg reported.
Cooper, in his order, said the Department of Health and Human Services “is perfectly entitled to formulate its own views about how to stem teen pregnancy — or even whether it is worth preventing at all — and to pursue policy initiatives consistent with its viewpoint. But it is not at liberty, under the Administrative Procedure Act (‘APA’), to impose conditions on grant recipients that Congress did not intend or that are unreasonable or unexplained,” according to Politico.
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