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I've been a healthcare reporter here in DC for about a decade, and for that entire time, Republicans have been on this mission to defund,

and they're planning to stop the killing, stop hurting women.

It's about dignity of life.

And we would like to see Planned Parenthood defunded immediately and prosecuted for the barbaric crimes committed inside of there.

This week, the Trump administration got a lot closer to mission accomplished, so close that 21 states are now taking Trump to court.

We are filing suit against the Trump administration for this unlawful, harmful rule.

The rule tells health clinics that if they want to keep all of their public funding, they are going to have to change two big things.

One, they're going to have to keep their abortion sides and their non-abortion sides completely physically and financially separate.

They might have to have a separate entrance for the abortion patients or have separate examination rooms.

Two, they can't even refer patients for abortions.

So if I come in for birth control, and it turns out that I'm already pregnant, I wouldn't be able to be directly referred to an abortion provider, even if I'm in a clinic that is also an abortion provider.

Olga Kazan is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

Planned Parenthood in particular has really come out strongly saying that this is kind of anathema to medical ethics.

Olga, this whole debate, it really comes down to the specific type of public funding called Title 10.

Yeah, this is a program that was established in 1970, and it essentially just provides affordable birth control and reproductive health care to people mostly with low incomes, and a lot of uninsured people as well who otherwise couldn't afford these services on their own.

It's especially important for things like IUDs, which are really expensive if you pay for them without health insurance.

And does Title 10 currently fund abortions?

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