Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 09:45 am
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is suing the Biden administration in response to a federal decision to redirect millions of dollars of federal family planning funding toward Planned Parenthood in the state.
Skrmetti said in a Wednesday statement that the state was “suing to stop the federal government from playing politics with the health of Tennessee women.”
“Just last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services praised Tennessee’s Department of Health as ‘the only agency with the capacity, staff, and expertise to administer Title X funds with integrity and without a gap in services in the state,’” Skrmetti said in the statement.
“This year, the federal government illegally diverted those funds to Planned Parenthood,” he said.