FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking Maryland to rescind its Public Health Abortion Grant Program, which used federal funds under the Affordable Care Act to pay for abortions.

“Under the Trump Administration, CMS will uphold the law that prohibits the use of taxpayer funding for abortion,” CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said in statement to The Daily Signal. “We’re putting states that try to circumvent statutory prohibitions on abortion funding on notice.”

The administration had informed the Maryland insurance commissioner in a letter........

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