Jimdamick
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A new Trump administration rule will cut off Planned Parenthood and other health providers that offer abortion services from hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding.
Under a regulation issued on Friday, no health-care provider that offers abortion services will be eligible for the federal Title X program, which last year offered $286.5 million in grants that funded family-planning services.
Last year, about 4 million low income women used Planned Parenthood's services
.
The rule “prohibits the use of Title X funds to perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning,” according to a fact sheet published by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Planned Parenthood has long been a target for anti-abortion lawmakers and politicians. The nonprofit offers a variety of preventive-health and family-planning services. The group has about 600 affiliated health-care centers used by more than 5 million people a year, according to its website.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the group’s political advocacy arm, said a “gag rule” in the regulation would prevent Planned Parenthood from referring women to health-care providers that perform abortions.
“The administration has put health care providers in the Title X program in an impossible position: withhold information from its patients or get pushed out of the program,” the action fund said in a post on Twitter.
Well, this should work out well seeing as this action will undoubtedly cost the lives of thousands of the most vulnerable women in society (but who really gives a shit in Trump World?),
Under a regulation issued on Friday, no health-care provider that offers abortion services will be eligible for the federal Title X program, which last year offered $286.5 million in grants that funded family-planning services.
Last year, about 4 million low income women used Planned Parenthood's services
.
The rule “prohibits the use of Title X funds to perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning,” according to a fact sheet published by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Planned Parenthood has long been a target for anti-abortion lawmakers and politicians. The nonprofit offers a variety of preventive-health and family-planning services. The group has about 600 affiliated health-care centers used by more than 5 million people a year, according to its website.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the group’s political advocacy arm, said a “gag rule” in the regulation would prevent Planned Parenthood from referring women to health-care providers that perform abortions.
“The administration has put health care providers in the Title X program in an impossible position: withhold information from its patients or get pushed out of the program,” the action fund said in a post on Twitter.
Well, this should work out well seeing as this action will undoubtedly cost the lives of thousands of the most vulnerable women in society (but who really gives a shit in Trump World?),
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