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Judge Sets Hearing On Injunction In Clinic Case

(AP) – A federal judge is to hear arguments Tuesday on whether to order the state of Kansas to resume paying a Dodge City clinic that lost its federal family planning money because of a state law aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood.

A notice posted Friday says the matter is set for a hearing before U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten.

The Dodge City Family Planning Clinic says it will close unless the court forces Kansas to resume payments. The new law requires the state to allocate federal family planning dollars first to public health departments and hospitals.

Kansas argues it has a sovereign right to distribute those federal funds as prioritized by its lawmakers.

An injunction ordering Kansas to resume payments to Planned Parenthood is under appeal.

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