Planned Parenthood to forgo funding from federal program over abortion rule

Published August 19, 2019 6:32pm ET



Planned Parenthood will be foregoing as much as $60 million annually from a federal family planning program that will carry new anti-abortion rules.

“Planned Parenthood is still open. We are continuing to fight this rule in court,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president of Planned Parenthood, said in a call with reporters Monday. She said the organization would do everything it could to make sure that clinics could stay open.

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