USCCB pro-life chairman calls HHS proposed rule on Title X ‘terrible policy’ Catholics pray for an end to abortion during a June 15, 2019, procession and rally outside Planned Parenthood's facility in Charlotte, N.C. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a Feb. 24, 2020, ruling upheld the Trump administration's "Protect Life Rule" that stops Title X family planning funds from going to abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood. (CNS photo/Patricia L. Guilfoyle, Catholic News Herald) See LIFE-RULE-APPEALS-COURT Feb. 25, 2020. By Julie Asher • Catholic News Service • Posted April 19, 2021 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published a proposed rule to rescind the Trump administration’s enforcement of a Title X provision that “draws a bright line between abortion and family planning,” as the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee chairman has described it.