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    Planned Parenthood Makes a Huge Bet

    The women’s health organization will stop taking money from Title X, a government family-planning program, in light of a new rule that bars doctors from making referrals for abortion procedures.
    by Emma Green Aug 20, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Lawrence Bryant / Reuters

    This week, Planned Parenthood decided to walk away from an estimated $60 million in annual federal funds for low-income women’s reproductive-health care. The organization claims it was forced into this decision by the Trump administration, which recently finalized a new rule barring recipients of money from Title X, a federal family-planning program, from making referrals for abortions.  

    For the Trump administration, Planned Parenthood’s decision to pull out of Title X is a double victory: It serves as another barrier between federal funds and abortion services, and the president’s supporters believe it also shows that Planned Parenthood cares more about providing abortion services than serving the health needs of the greatest possible number of women.

    The stand-off is a case study in how extreme the tactics of the abortion debate have

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