In Defunding Planned Parenthood, States Don't Always Follow Party Lines

Governing: Delivering on a high-profile campaign promise, President Trump on Thursday signed legislation allowing states to cut federal family planning funds for doctors and clinics that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood. The action reverses the Obama administration’s last-minute ban on states withholding federal Title X family planning funds from abortion providers.

Before and after the ban was in place, 13 states had already tried to block abortion providers from getting Title X money, according to The Washington Post. That number is now expected to climb. Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Congress is likely to cut family planning funds in general in the first budget that Trump signs.

But not every GOP-led state will strip funds from abortion providers.

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