Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions

The following article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website May 17, 2018:

WASHINGTON — Clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to places that do would lose federal funding under a new Trump administration rule that takes direct aim at Planned Parenthood, according to three administration officials.

The rule, which is to be announced Friday, is a top priority of social conservatives and is the latest move by President Trump to impose curbs on abortion rights, in this case by withholding money from any facility or program that promotes abortion or refers patients to a caregiver that will provide one. Continue reading “Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions”