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Put out new rules very similar to stricter regulations put out under the regan administration pack in the 80s which said if you don't comply with these restrictions on abortion, then you won't be able to receive these grants. and so rather than comply planned parenthood announced it will withdraw from the program. it is the largest provider of title x services, serving 40% of low-income women who benefit from title x. >> it is a lot of sfgss. it is birth control as well more broadly. let me pull up this map. for women in 105 counties across the united states, you talk about the reach here, 34r...

Long-term planning to try to work around the hostility of this administration and their efforts to shut you down? >> look, i mean, we have been obviously planning, scenario planning around any number of things because we are very concerned about this administration, the trump administration, again, has focused on targeting not just title x but also the number of anti-choice judges going all the way up to the supreme court. so, you know, there's long-term planning that has to happen in a number of areas. you know, with respect to title x, you know, we're hoping that people, that our supporters,...

About 42% of the people that go to the title x clinics are uninsured. another 38% are on medicaid. these are numbers from 2017. particularly for women that are uninsured, it is unclear where they're going next. we saw in texas a number of years ago when the state legislature cut funding by 65% to the types of reproductive health clinics, saw lots of women in texas that stopped filling prescriptions for birth control, no longer using longer term effective methods of contraception like iuds. we saw the rate of women on medicaid who gave birth went up in texas. >> sarah, thank you for helping us ...

To how much you earn, where you life, or who you are. congress must act now. people's lives fend on it. joining me now washington most partial reporter focused on health care, paige winfield cunningh cunningham. thank you for being with us. >> of course. >> this is the late e. in years-long fight over changes to title x. is this being perceived as a victory for president trump >> reporter: absolutely. he made a lot of promises to anti abortion folks this win their confidence in 2016. this idea of defunding planned parenthood was one of those promises. but, you know, he really failed to do that...

We don't want them to drive miles and miles to get access to an iud. these are the kinds of things we're facing now, and we need everyone to step into this. >> if you're able to fill this void with philanthropic dollars, does that put you in a worse position when and if you want to go back and get government funding and they can turn and say, well, we'll work this out all on your own? >> this is not something you can fund-raise your way out of. i think i'm being clear about that. there are, obviously, some temporary, you know, opportunities that we are looking at. there are eight states that a...