America’s largest abortion provider may lose $60 million in federal funding after the organization indicated it doesn’t intend to comply with new rules issued by the Trump administration for a decades-old family planning grant program.
The program, established in the 1970s as Title X of the Public Health Service Act, pays for family planning projects for mostly poor people. It’s been prohibited from funding abortion services, but President Bill Clinton changed the rules so that recipients of the funds were not only allowed, but actually required, to refer patients to abortion providers. Planned Parenthood is estimated to receive about a quarter of all Title X funding.
