The Trump Administration Proposed Cutting Funding to Clinics Like Planned Parenthood. We Know How That Plays Out Because Texas Did It in 2011.
“The new federal rule bars abortion providers and referring facilities from getting funding through Title X, a government program that supports free or low-cost contraception, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and reproductive cancer screenings for low-income Americans. In 2016, the latest year for which numbers are available, Congress allocated $286 million to Title X, supporting hospitals and clinics that served four million Americans. Federal funds are already banned from paying for abortions directly: Currently, if a clinic provides abortions, it can’t use Title X funds to pay doctors who perform the procedure; it must use other money to pay for use of its waiting room by abortion patients. But the Trump rule states that Title X hospitals and clinics must separate their abortion and non-abortion services even further, though it doesn’t specify how.”