Planned Parenthood could spare itself a lot of political trouble and Ms. Trump would get to broker a deal. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIsolating abortion providers from mainstream medicine has hurt women seeking the procedure almost since Roe v. Wade in 1973. Making women scramble to find abortion services has become an increasingly common tactic by abortion opponents. “It is beyond rational belief” that the Texas abortion regulations “could genuinely protect the health of women,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in a concurrence. In 2012, however, Texas gave up $35 million in Medicaid funding to kick abortion providers out of its women’s health program.

Source: New York Times March 10, 2017 22:07 UTC