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Print On his way out the White House door, President Trump has paused to remind us that he always has time for an act of pointless vandalism aimed at women’s reproductive healthcare. On Wednesday, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services announced it was docking California’s Medicaid program $200 million because state law requires all health insurance plans to include coverage for abortions. The penalty will take effect starting in the first quarter of next year, according to the department, and continue at the rate of $200 million per quarter until the state changes its rule. C...

Trump administration cuts health care funding to California over abortions Follow Us Question of the Day In this June 26, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom listens to a reporter’s question during a news conference in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Gov. Newsom is facing a possible recall election as the nation’s most populous state struggles to ... more > By - Associated Press - Wednesday, December 16, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration said Wednesday it was cutt...

Trump administration cuts off $200 million for California health care over abortions FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Gov. Gavin Newsom (left) criticized President Trump’s decision to cut the state’s health funding.Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images 2018Show MoreShow Less 2of4 Pro Life activists and a supporters of naming Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court Justice celebrate in front of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC on October 26, 2020. - The deeply divided chamber voted 52 to 48, largely along party lines in the Republican-controlled Senate, making Barrett the third Trump nomi...

Giving them executive order. it has full force and effect of law. you are right. executive order that we had signed, they probably never read it. >> greta: all right. the easy fix might be that is road to include catholic hospitals and not just churches, that would this easy way they could fix this one? >> that would be an easier way to fix it. you could rely on the executive order and authority to fix it. executive order, longstanding law to protect things such as the church amendment, weldon amendment and prohibits discrimination against health care facilities and providers because of unwill...

That what you agreed to that dealt with abortion? >> it dealt with not only abortion but also with conscience clause. if you look at section one of the executive order, it's very clearly says church amendment way back in 1973 to the weldon amendment that was legislation that president obama signed in 2009 which they talked about the clause of the right of individuals and institutions such as the church to not provide the services if it violates the tenets of their faith and their conscience. >> greta: there are so many different fay sets, you have catholics that are deeply upset and others, as...