Trump Administration Finalizes Rule Stripping Abortion Providers of Title X “Family Planning” Funds

Trump Administration Finalizes Rule Stripping Abortion Providers of Title X “Family Planning” Funds

On Friday the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a rule change that effectively strips abortion providers of federal Title X family planning funding. It would do so by requiring abortion providers to demonstrate a “clear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning,” by prohibiting “referral for abortion as a method of family planning,” and by eliminating the “requirement that Title X providers offer abortion counseling and referral.”