President Trump: U.S. Gov’t Will No Longer Fund Abortions

trumpSean Adl-Tabatabai – President Trump has issued a final rule Friday that bans the federal funding of abortion in family planning clinics nationwide.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the new rule that could block $60 million in taxpayer money from funding abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.

Breitbart.com reports: The new regulation, which governs Title X, the federal grant program that provides funding for family planning services, prohibits the use of the funds to “perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning.”

The rule intends to provide a clear line between abortion and family planning.

“This is the kind of policy change that millennials, the nation’s largest voting bloc, support,” said Student for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins in a statement. “Healthcare dollars should fund real, full-service medical care, not abortion vendors”: Continue reading