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(Life Site News<\/a>) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration\u2019s rule prohibiting Title X taxpayer funds from being given to organizations which refer for abortions.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker rejected a lawsuit<\/a> brought by Maine Family Planning, which claimed that the Protect Life Rule<\/a> violates the free speech clause in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

Walker judged that the \u201crule authorizes nondirective counseling, including abortion counseling; it only prohibits an abortion referral.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Protect Life Rule requires<\/a> \u201cclear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning\u201d and bans \u201creferral for abortion as a method of family planning.\u201d The abortion lobby has responded with multiple lawsuits, and Planned Parenthood chose to withdraw<\/a> from Title X rather than comply with it, despite the company\u2019s repeated claim that abortion is only a fraction of their \u201cservices.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> in the local Maine news outlet Bangor Daily News<\/em> Maine Family Planning receives \u201ca little more than $2 million in Title X money each year, which was disbursed to its 18 owner-operated health care centers across the state.\u201d A spokesperson for the organization said<\/a> that is about 30 percent of their total revenue.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Ninth Circuit again upholds Trump rule stripping Planned Parenthood of $60M<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The organization has previously said<\/a> that it will continue to operate without federal funding, rather than comply with the Trump administration\u2019s funding regulations.<\/p>\n

When the lawsuit was launched last year<\/a>, Maine Family Planning CEO George Hill said that the new rules on federal funding \u201cthreatens the very existence of\u201d Maine Family Planning\u2019s 18 centers, all of which reportedly offer abortions in the same buildings, although they say that the abortion businesses operate independently.<\/p>\n

Maine Family Planning\u2019s legal representatives said following the ruling that they may appeal the decision in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

The Protect Life Rule is projected to cut almost $60 million from the $616 million Planned Parenthood received<\/a> during the most recent fiscal year. The incoming presidential and congressional elections in November will decide whether funding to the abortion industry is further restricted or restored next year.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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