Ohio and 11 States Sue Biden Administration Over Abortion Funds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The Trump-era rule prompted Planned Parenthood and a number of other entities to leave the grant program.
48% : At the time, Planned Parenthood characterized the rule as a "direct attack" on its reproductive health services, which includes abortion.
42% : The Department of Health and Human Services 1988 under President Ronald Reagan put regulations in place to explicitly forbid clinics receiving Title X funds from providing counseling or referrals for abortion as a method of family planning.
40% : Federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion -- and that law means nothing if the federal money isn't kept separate."
39% : Yost, a Republican, said that the litigation to reinstate the Trump-era rule is to ultimately ensure that federally-funded clinics can only receive taxpayer funding for family planning services other than abortion.
28% : The Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump in 2019 issued a rule that "prohibits the use of Title X funds to perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning.

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