Tuesday 5 March 2019

California sues to stop new abortion obstacles by Trump administration

Twenty other states plan to sue separately against Trump’s effort to block a rule that would shift funding to faith-based groups

California and 20 other Democratic-led states announced they were challenging the Trump administration’s effort to set up obstacles for women seeking abortions, including barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers.

California attorney general Xavier Becerra said Monday that the state filed its own federal lawsuit in San Francisco that aims to block a new family planning rule from the US Health and Human Services Department. Opponents of the rule say it would shift millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood to faith-based family planning organizations.

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