Democrats reject Trump’s ‘gag rule’ on Planned Parenthood

Published May 25, 2018 4:08pm ET



House and Senate Democrats are blasting the Trump administration’s plan to keep certain doctors from discussing abortion with patients as “radical departure” from normal health care practices.

They were reacting to a new federal policy that cuts off federal funding to facilities where doctors or nurses refer patients for abortion in cases that don’t involve rape, incest or if the pregnant woman’s life is in danger.

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