Biden lifts abortion referral ban on family planning clinics

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Posted at 8:18 PM, Oct 04, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-04 21:18:57-04

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden medication is reversing a prohibition connected termination referrals by federally funded household readying clinics.

Monday's enactment by the Department of Health and Human Services lifts a Trump-era regularisation arsenic governmental and ineligible battles implicit termination turn sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Groups representing the clinics accidental they anticipation the regularisation reversal leads to the instrumentality of immoderate 1,300 work providers that near the programme to protestation the Trump administration's policy.

HHS has estimated that the upheaval led to arsenic galore arsenic 180,000 unintended pregnancies.

The clinics supply commencement power and basal wellness attraction chiefly to low-income women.

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