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Mon Dec 10, 2018, 07:14 PM Dec 2018

Justices Won't Intervene In Planned Parenthood Funding

https://politicalwire.com/2018/12/10/supreme-court-declines-to-intervene-in-planned-parenthood-funding/

December 10, 2018 at 11:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard86 Comments

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“The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review lower court decisions that blocked efforts in two states to end public funding to Planned Parenthood, refusing for now to get involved in state battles over abortion rights,” the Washington Postreports.

The cases did not touch on abortion itself, but three justices who said the court should have accepted the cases said that was the reason the court declined to get involved.

CNBC reports Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh sided with their liberal colleagues.

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