health official: Days after announcing that recipients of federal family planning grants would have to immediately stop referring patients for abortions, Department of Health and Human Services officials sent a rare Saturday night notice to Planned Parenthood affiliates, state governments and other organizations that they would now have two months to comply with the contentious Title X rule change, as my colleague Amy Goldstein reports, according to The Independent. That announcement came after a federal health official told more than 200 reproductive health organization leaders last week that she wanted to give providers 60 days to comply with the change once the department issued guidance on how to do so, Amy reported. Spencer Platt/Getty Images At least one family planning provider is not backing down from a plan to reject federal dollars after the Trump administration said it would delay enforcement of its new abortion rule. Maine Family Planning was one of the first organizations to say it would no longer accept federal money, withdrawing from the federal family planning grant program it has been part of for nearly five decades after the Trump administration initially said it would immediately enforce the referral ban. It does not change our decision at all, Hill told me. George Hill, the president and chief executive of the independent provider, told me the gag rule is completely at odds with our mission, and said the administration's backpedaling won't change his mind.
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