The following article by Juliet Eilperin and Paige Winfield Cunningham was posted on the Washington Post website January 13, 2018:
This post has been updated.
Teresa Manning — an antiabortion activist in charge of the Health and Human Services Department’s family planning programs — resigned her post Friday, according to a department spokeswoman.
Manning, who served as deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Population Affairs, has spent much of her career fighting abortion and has publicly questioned the efficacy of several popular contraception methods. Her job included overseeing the Title X program, which provides family-planning funding for about 4 million poor Americans or those without health insurance. Continue reading “Antiabortion activist abruptly steps down as head of HHS’s family planning division”