Planned Parenthood Rejects Federal Funding Over Trump Administration’s “Unethical” Gag Rule
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Instead, more Title X funding will go toward religious health care providers that push abstinence and natural family planning methods.
Planned Parenthood announced Monday that it will withdraw from Title X, the federal family planning program through which the organization receives about $60 million annually, rather than adhere to the Trump administration’s new rule that restricts grantees from providing abortion care or referrals for the procedure. Last week, a 9th Circuit court denied the organization’s request to block the rule from going into effect.
“When you have an unethical rule that will limit what providers can tell our patients, it becomes really important that we not agree to be in the program,” Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood, said of the decision.
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