Trump vs. Planned Parenthood: Showdown Over Funding

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But the measure's narrow path to Trump's desk underscores the difficulty the president could face as he targets Planned Parenthood: The bill passed the Senate only after Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote, as two Republican senators opposed efforts to cut the organization's funding.

Title X, the federal family planning program established by President Richard Nixon in 1970, subsidizes health care services like contraception, Pap smears and others for 4 million low-income Americans.

President Trump signed H.J. Resolution 43 Thursday afternoon, allowing states to deny funding from Title X grants to family health centers if they provide abortions, with little fanfare.

That regulation, implemented in the waning days of the Obama administration, required that states pass along family-planning grants - regardless of whether the groups they're passing them along to offer abortion services as well. This vote will roll back these protections, leaving the many Idahoans who rely on Planned Parenthood for family planning services vulnerable. Joni Ernst. Prioritizing funding away from Planned Parenthood to comprehensive health care alternatives is a winning issue. The Planned Parenthood website shows abortion services are provided at both the Birmingham and Mobile locations.

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President Donald Trump is giving states permission to defund Planned Parenthood.

Trump even invited top right-wing activists to the Oval Office to watch him sign the legislation.

Trump signed into law on Thursday a bill reversing a Department of Health and Human Services regulation signed in December that prevented states from blocking funding for Planned Parenthood. He repeatedly vowed, throughout the presidential campaign, that attacking the health care organization would be a top priority for the Trump administration.

"The clear goal of this Title X rule change was to benefit abortion providers like Planned Parenthood", said Cardinal Timothy Dolan of NY, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities. "Trump's actions are creating very real and damaging consequences for millions of women and their families, inflicting direct harm on already vulnerable communities". Pro-life groups supported the AHCA, because it would have struck down many Obamacare provisions authorizing federal subsidies for abortion.