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Trump Abortion Rule Seen as Blow Against Planned Parenthood

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop
   referring women for abortions immediately, the Trump administration
   says, declaring it will begin enforcing a new regulation hailed by
   religious conservatives and denounced by medical organizations and
   women's rights groups.

   The head of a national umbrella group representing the clinics said the
   Republican administration is following "an ideological agenda" that
   could disrupt basic health care for many low-income women.

   Ahead of a planned conference Tuesday with the clinics, the Department
   of Health and Human Services formally notified them that it will begin
   enforcing the ban on abortion referrals, along with a requirement that
   clinics maintain separate finances from facilities that provide
   abortions. Another requirement that both kinds of facilities cannot be
   under the same roof would take effect next year.
   

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