California also suing over Trump health rule

California has joined nearly two dozen states and municipalities in suing the federal government to stop a new rule that lets health care clinicians decline to provide abortions and other services that conflict with their moral or religious beliefs.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit in San Francisco that calls the rule unlawful, reckless and contradictory to laws that seek to protect patients from discrimination and ensure access to care.

The lawsuit says the rule effectively authorizes discrimination and could curb access to health care for LGBTQ residents, among others.

Twenty-three states and municipalities brought a similar lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in New York.

The city of San Francisco sued over the regulation on May 2, hours after President Trump announced it.