Trump Moves Against Planned Parenthood by Signing GOP Bill
- Bill allows states to withhold federal money over abortions
- Congress used mechanism to reverse Obama-era regulation
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington on Sept. 29, 2015.
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President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday that would give states the flexibility to withhold federal family planning money from Planned Parenthood.
Trump, who has had few opportunities to enact legislation during his first three months in office, signed the measure in private, quietly reversing an Obama administration regulation. The bill overturns a rule that prohibits states from refusing to distribute federal family-planning money to clinics simply because the facilities also perform abortions.