After quietly cutting funding for family planning services last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has agreed to reinstate some funding for teen pregnancy prevention, NBC News reports. Nine Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP) grantees, including local governments and non-profits, sued to reinstate their funding earlier this month. An attorney with Democracy Forward represented the plaintiffs after obtaining documents revealing that the Trump administration cut the program against the advice of longtime HHS staff.

Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore City's health commissioner, wrote in an op-ed published on The Hill earlier this month that the city received an $8.6 million grant in June 2015 to implement "comprehensive, evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education" in more than 120 middle schools and high schools. Wen expressed her concern for the 20,000 Baltimore students currently benefitting from health education funded by the endangered program:

"In Baltimore, we do not see this funding cut as a number. We see the faces of 20,000 teens who will not receive critical pregnancy prevention education. We see the effect on their futures and on their childrens futures. We see the impact on our communities. We fear what this means for valuing science and evidence, and for how we can continue to fulfill our responsibility of protecting health and ensuring well-being."

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