DOJ Enters Court Battle Over Indiana Abortion Law

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A powerful combatant has joined the fight in a pending Indiana lawsuit over the state’s controversial new abortion law.

As we recently noted, the law at the center of the dispute bans organizations, including Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds if they provide abortions. Indiana says that the law, enacted in May, should prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds even for non-abortion services, because such funds help Planned Parenthood stay in business and thus indirectly subsidize abortions.

The Department of Justice entered the fray yesterday, filing a brief in the case that contends Indiana federal judge Tanya Walton Pratt should block the abortion law on the grounds that it thwarts Medicaid recipients from freely choosing the medical provider of their choice, AP reports.

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Has any administration tried to interfere with state laws as much as this one?

[docstew]

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Has any administration tried to interfere with state laws as much as this one?

One... Lincoln's (before you all get in a tizzy, this is not a "slavery started the Civil War" statement.  I am referring specifically to the Emancipation Proclamation that, while morally the right thing to do, proposed to remove whole sections of the law of several states)

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...  I am referring specifically to the Emancipation Proclamation that, while morally the right thing to do, proposed to remove whole sections of the law of several states)

Those who lose wars often find themselves in such a state of affairs.

I hear apocryphally that MacArthur handed the Japanese their new constitution on a 8 1/2 by 14 yellow sheet of legal paper. It even told them what forms their religion could not take.