Judge Orders Restoration Of CDC And FDA Websites

The Washington Post reports:

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the nation’s premier health agencies to restore online access to several websites that monitor HIV, health risks for youths, and assisted reproductive technologies, which were abruptly taken offline to ensure they complied with Trump’s recent executive order on gender.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted a temporary restraining order requested by the nonprofit advocacy group Doctors for America, directing the administration to bring back public information maintained by the CDC and FDA while a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to remove it is pending.

“By removing long relied upon medical resources without explanation, it is likely that … each agency failed to ‘examine the relevant data and articulate a satisfactory explanation for its action,’” Bates wrote in an opinion issued Tuesday. He ordered the agencies to restore access to the websites by the end of Tuesday.

Read the full article. But will they comply?