Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Bentley

OPINION

Myron H. Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Before the court is a challenge to a decision by the Governor of Alabama to terminate the State’s Medicaid provider agreement with Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. (‘PPSE’), which funds services unrelated to abortion, including routine gynecological exams, pregnancy counseling, and breast- and cervical-cancer screenings. The plaintiffs are PPSE and Jane Doe, a PPSE patient and Medicaid recipient, suing individually and on behalf of a putative class of similarly situated Medicaid-recipient patients of PPSE. The defendants are the Governor…