https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/18/612445385/what-does-trumps-proposal-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funds-mean
With the possible arrival of a Reagan-like policy emerging from the federal budget, family planning facilities would be banned from abortion referrals and make those facilities separate from those that perform abortions. All of these seems like campaign follow through from Trump's campaign promise to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that supplies many other health services than abortion.
This policy originates from Reagan trying to exclude Title X, a program adopted by Nixon and pushed by the representative George H. W. Bush that provided wellness exams, contraceptive services, cancer screenings, and STD screening to citizens, who were mostly lower class young women, from funding birth control by making it only available through parental consent to teens. He also tried to eliminate abortion referral as a "gag rule", dissociating Title X funding with organizations that provided abortions. During George H. W. Bush's administration, this was upheld through Rust v. Sullivan. However, in his second day of office, Bill Clinton revoked the policy.
In this new policy, everything is basically the same. As of right now, Planned Parenthood is questioning taking legal action due to the process of ratifying such thing with OMB reviews and possible changes coming.
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