By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Wires
Published: 20:52 GMT, 22 February 2019 | Updated: 20:59 GMT, 22 February 2019
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The Trump administration said Friday that it will begin to draw a bright line of separation between abortion providers and family planning clinics that receive federal money under a Health and Human Services Department grant program.
The practical impact of the new regulation, which will take effect in 60 days, is to bar the clinics from referring women to doctors for the purpose of terminating their pregnancies.
That will hit Planned Parenthood the hardest: It receives between $50 million and $60 million of the $286 million distributed in what are known as Title X grants.
Under the new rule, the nation's largest abortion provider netowrk, and other clinics that accept the funding, won't be permitted to perform abortions or make any abortion referrals at the same facilities where they offer mammograms, cancer screenings and birth control – the services the grants are meant to pay for.
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest chain of abortion clinics, couod lose up to $60 million in annual federal funding following a new rule designed to put up a strict wall of separation between traditional family planning clinics and abortion providers
Trump ran as a pro-life conservative in 2016 and attracted the support of millions of southern evangelicals who expect him to be on their side in the abortion culture wars
