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The legal battle over the defunding of Planned Parenthood reached a new milestone this week, with a federal order blocking enforcement of a key provision of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill . Planned Parenthood had previously won an injunction blocking enforcement of the measure , which would defund the organization, only to see that order reversed by the 1 st Circuit Court of Appeals . In a suit brought by 22 states, the same federal judge issued an entirely different order blocking the defunding . The argument in the states’ case seems stronger than the one made by the Planned Parenthood plaintiffs. That’s hardly a guarantee if—and when—t

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