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S.C. governor's order says funds won't go to abortion providers

Modern Healthcare: One of Donald Trump's earliest backers is taking advantage of a law signed by the president to further restrict funding to abortion providers, signing an executive order directing state agencies not to allocate state and federal money to healthcare providers affiliated in any way with abortion clinics.In the order signed Thursday, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster also directed the state's Medicaid agency to seek federal permission to exclude abortion clinics from its Medicaid provider network. The governor also told state officials to put together a list "of all qualified women's health and family planning providers" within a 25-mile radius of abortion clinics excluded from the state's Medicaid network.

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