Biden administration moves to reinstate Planned Parenthood funding cut off by Trump

Published March 18, 2021 10:22pm ET



The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would rewrite a Trump-era policy that barred federal family planning funding from going to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that refer patients to abortion.

The Department of Health and Human Services will rewrite the 2019 rule that withheld federal funding through the Title X Family Planning Program from providers who direct women to abortion services. HHS is expected to propose new rules for the family planning program similar to those implemented in 2000 and ended under the Trump administration.

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