Judge rules in Baltimore's favor in suit over federal cuts to teen pregnancy prevention program (Baltimore Sun)

Thursday Apr 26th, 2018

A federal judge ruled in favor of the city of Baltimore and a national nonprofit based here that aims to reduce teen pregnancy rates, after they sued over cuts to the program’s federal funding.

Maryland U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake found the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ decision to cut the Healthy Teen Network’s funding was “arbitrary and capricious,” and ordered the agency to process the organization’s applications.

The Healthy Teen Network had filed a lawsuit in February against the President Donald Trump’s administration after cut in federal funding for programs designed to reduce teen pregnancy rates. Trump’s appointee to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reduced federal grants for programs that do not match the official’s belief that people should not have sex until they are married.

Baltimore joined the lawsuit in March.

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