Leading what is expected to be a national battle over the issue, California is suing the Trump administration seeking to block a new regulation that restricts access to abortion and other family-planning services.
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new rule that he says limits access to abortion.
from offering abortions or referring women to abortion services. Oregon’s attorney general said her state and 20 others, including New York, plan to file a lawsuit on Tuesday. Washington officials said last week that they plan to sue.The filing seeks an injunction against the rules adopted for Title X of the Public Health Service Act, the federally funded program devoted to family planning.
Editorial: Undermining an effective birth control funding program to promote abstinence is the height of stupidity » The Title X program helped women in California avoid an estimated 822,000 unplanned pregnancies in 2015, which would have resulted in 387,000 unplanned births and 278,000 abortions, the lawsuit says.
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