The new cuts are focused on services such as cancer screenings and tests, birth control and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.

States filed their own lawsuits because the loss of funding for Planned Parenthood clinics would mean a cost to them, William Tong said.

Massachusetts and other states -- including California, New York, and Rhode Island, -- claim that a provision defunding Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid is unconstitutional and violates Planned Parenthoo