The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must rescind changes it imposed to teen pregnancy prevention programs, a federal judge ruled on Oct. 7.
Updated conditions for organizations carrying out the programs, which cited executive orders from President Donald Trump, were so vague that the organizations could not know how to comply, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said in a 65-page decision.
“The Policy Notice mandates compliance now, without providing plaintiffs with any meaningful standard for achieving that compliance,” Howell said.
She ordered HHS to vacate the notice laying out the updated conditions for grant recipients.
HHS did not respond to a request for comment by publication time….