Biden’s HHS Begins Rolling Back Trump-Era Title X 'Gag Rule’

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / April 14, 2021 at 6:35 PM
The Biden administration announced Wednesday (April 14) to health care advocates’ cheers it plans to roll back the Trump-era so-called gag rule, finding the 2019 final rule has cut the number of Title X grantees by a quarter and could have led to up to 181,477 unintended pregnancies. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s skinny budget would increase the Title X program’s funding by 18.7% -- which would be the highest ever appropriated yet still criticized by some advocates as not enough...


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