Federal court upholds Title X rule changes

A federal court yesterday upheld the Trump administration's changes to Title X funding for abortion providers. The rule, initially proposed in 2018, had been stopped from going into effect by lower courts in Washington, Oregon, and California. Yesterday's ruling means that the federal government can withhold funding through the Title X program to clinics that perform abortions or refer patients to abortion clinics. Health providers like Planned Parenthood rely on funding through the program to offer a range of care, including cancer screening, to low-income families. The organization has shared it would withdraw from the program and forgo $60 million in funding rather than limit the care its physicians could provide. The majority opinion in yesterday's ruling shared that the Supreme Court had already ruled in favor of similar regulations back in 1991, possibly making it unlikely that that court would take up the case again.