Planned Parenthood will refuse all Title X funding rather than comply with the Trump administration’s restrictions governing the discussion of abortion at federally-funded clinics, the group announced Monday.
Planned Parenthood decided to abandon its Title X funding, which represents roughly 15 percent of its overall federal funding, in response to a Trump administration rule barring clinics that participate in the program from referring women to abortion providers.
"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. But to be clear we're doing that because we're being forced out," the group said in a Monday statement. "Trump's administration is trying to force us to keep information from our patients. The gag rule is unethical, dangerous, and we will not subject our patients to it."
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