Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday introduced a bill aiming to stop the federal public health agency from using funds to coerce pro-life states into supporting abortion.
The one-page bill, formally titled “States Choose Life Act of 2023,” states that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should not demand states make referrals for abortion as a condition of receiving the Title X health care funding.
Title X is a federal program dedicated to providing birth control and other reproductive health services for mostly low-income women. In 2019, the Trump administration banned clinics receiving Title X grants from discussing or referring their pregnant clients to abortion, saying that American taxpayers have been wrongfully forced to subsidize the abortion industry through federal funding….