In contravention of both federal law and its own Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule, the Biden administration is shutting off healthcare funding to states that have restricted abortion referrals.
“President Joe Biden’s administration at the end of March cut off Tennessee’s Title X [family-planning] funds after determining the state health department — which oversees its clinics and was awarded $7.1 million last year — violated federal rules by not counseling patients about abortion,” reported KFF Health News. “‘Continued funding is not in the best interest of the government,’ two Department of Health and Human Services officials wrote to Tennessee officials on March 20.”