Pennsylvania joins lawsuit over Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’

Published March 06. 2019 07:56AM

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania is joining 19 other states in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s move to restrict taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined the lawsuit filed Tuesday in an Oregon federal court challenging what critics call the “gag rule.”

Shapiro, a Democrat, says it imposes unlawful and unethical restrictions on health care professionals. The state of California sued separately, as did the American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood.

Shapiro says the federal Title X program has never funded abortions in Pennsylvania.

Shapiro says dozens of agencies and clinics that receive Title X funds help women get essential health care services such as contraception, preventive care and cancer screenings, and are estimated to prevent thousands of abortions each year in Pennsylvania.

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How many abortions are in Trump's closet? Pay offs, NDA's, disappearances. Look deep, it's all there.
RUK it is time to put you on the list for a brain scan. President Trump is pro life. Some Planned Parenthood clinics recruit ladies to have an abortion. They can then sell the body parts in the back room. Out front they can hang a sign advertising breast exams. Funny though they do not have the means to conduct breast exams there at that facility. Check out the investigative video (Operation Veratas- I believe). A beautiful baby should be born and cherished with few exceptions, and rarely, if ever aborted. Life is valuable. Infanticide is wrong. You liberals applauded infanticide on record. MAGA! Pro lifer! You are a liberal baby hater. Maybe you should have been aborted by your parents. Problem solved. Public tax money should not be used to kill beautiful little babies. That is President Trumps viewpoint-and mine! You liberals care more about animal rights than babies rights.

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