WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told California it is violating federal law by requiring insurers to cover abortion and threatened to withhold federal funding if the state doesn’t end its mandate, the latest move in a broader White House effort to establish religion-based exemptions to reproductive rights statutes. The move could have far-reaching implications that put potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in federal health funding at risk.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 24, 2020 14:12 UTC