14. Department of Health and Human Services · Notable
Withdraw Medicaid funds from states that mandate abortion insurance
Printed page 472 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“HHS/CMS should withdraw appropriated funding, up to and including 10 percent of Medicaid funds, from states that require abortion insurance coverage.”
What has happened
- Not started
No Medicaid disallowance or funding withdrawal against a State for mandating abortion insurance coverage, or for discriminating against pro-life entities under the Weldon Amendment, appears anywhere in the record: not in the Federal Register, not in the cms.gov URL index of 145,119 pages, and not in the Corpus's court records. The 2019 California disallowance the Mandate cites was withdrawn in 2021 and has not been reissued. Weldon appears in the window only inside HHS OCR rescission notices and the Unified Agenda. Negative search recorded in `docs/research/ch-14.md` under the round-2 (ticket 16) cluster searches.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Queries: Federal Register “Weldon Amendment” since 2025-01-20 → 5 documents (the CY 2026 OPPS rule, two OCR rescission notices, a Privacy Act notice, an HHS organization statement, and the Unified Agenda), none a funding action; the cms.gov sitemap index searched for “weldon” and “disallowance” → 0; the federal court dockets we keep and search (from CourtListener), including its bulk docket snapshot, searched for “weldon” → shipping and EPA cases only.
- The California pharmacy-discrimination limb of the Quote is likewise unevidenced.
- Action
- withdraw
- Object
- Medicaid funds to states violating the Weldon Amendment
- ID
- 1302