Congress didn’t defund Planned Parenthood. But Trump can.

How do we defund Planned Parenthood now, since Congress did not in the budget?

Right now, no organization is allowed to use the government’s family planning dollars for abortion. Planned Parenthood gets around that law, by drawing an “artificial line” between its abortion facilities and its other family planning services — “even when those are located in the same facility, and essentially funded jointly.”

If President Trump reinstated Reagan‘s “Co-Location“ rule, Planned Parenthood could still get Title X Funds, but they wouldn’t be able to offer those services in the same clinics where they perform abortions. They’d have to split up their offices — probably at great expense. Ultimately, Planned Parenthood would be forced to choose between dropping their abortion services from any location that gets Title X dollars or moving those abortion operations offsite. Either way, it puts a major dent in the group’s bottom line.

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