Advocates for disability rights are fighting the lawsuit, which would push more people to be warehoused in institutions.

The right of disabled people to live in community rather than being warehoused in institutions is under attack in a lawsuit currently being pursued by Texas and six other states. But advocacy efforts are persuading states to pull out of the suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called Texas v. Kennedy.

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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    Of course it’s Texas. What a shithole. Here are the others that are still attempting to do this:

    Texas — as well as in the other plaintiff states of Alaska, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Montana

    Lots of the usual suspects in there.