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Trump blocks $60 million from Planned Parenthood

New rule effectively eliminates some taxpayer funding

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President Trump issued a final federal rule Friday that could deprive abortion giant Planned Parenthood of $60 million in taxpayer funding annually.

The Title X Protect Life Rule is Planned Parenthood’s second biggest source of taxpayer funding, after Medicaid.

Planned Parenthood received about $500 million a year from various government sources.

The new rule prevents federal funding from going to family planning centers that refer or perform abortions while providing Title X services such as birth control, mammograms and cancer screenings.

“This is a huge step forward in the wake of congressional gridlock on defunding Planned Parenthood,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life SBA List.

“President Trump has stepped in and taken decisive action where Congress has failed us.

Dannenfelser said her group was one of 86 that worked with allies in Congress to generate letters signed by 153 House members and 41 Senators urging the president to propose new Title X rules.

She said the policy win is in response to promises SBA List and other pro-life groups secured from then-candidate Trump to defund Planned Parenthood.

“When congressional action lagged, we worked with the administration on securing this decisive executive action,” she said.

The rule is expected to be challenged in federal court.

But Dannenfelser noted that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of similar Title X regulations issued by President Reagan.

Critics of the rule, Politico reported, contend it will amount to a “domestic gag rule” that prohibits health care providers counseling patients on all of their “reproductive choices.”

“This rule intentionally strikes at the heart of the patient-provider relationship, inserting political ideology into a family planning visit, which will frustrate and ultimately discourage patients from seeking the health care they need,” said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.

Politico reported Washington Gov. Jay Inslee vowed to explore challenges to the rule change, contending it “endangers tens of thousands of Washingtonians and millions of Americans.”


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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Donald Trump Administration: Abortion Is Not Family Planning


22 Feb 2019

The Trump administration issued a final rule Friday that underscores that federal taxpayer funds provided for family planning services may not be used to support abortion in any way.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the new rule that could block about $60 million in family planning funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers who refer girls and women for abortions.

The new regulation, which governs Title X, the federal grant program that provides funding for family planning services, prohibits the use of the funds to “perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning.”

The rule intends to provide a clear line between abortion and family planning.

“This is the kind of policy change that millennials, the nation’s largest voting bloc, support,” said Student for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins in a statement. “Healthcare dollars should fund real, full-service medical care, not abortion vendors”:

.@realDonaldTrump Thank you for stripping Planned Parenthood of $50 million!!!#ProtectLife #TitleX pic.twitter.com/fdTqjrpWBS

— Students for Life (@StudentsforLife) February 22, 2019

The rule reinstates President Ronald Reagan’s “Protect Life Rule,” which bars the “co-location” of federally funded family planning clinics with abortion clinics.

“President Trump’s HHS is taking a major step toward the ultimate goal of ending taxpayers’ forced partnership with the abortion industry,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins in a statement. “The finalized ‘protect life rule’ draws a bright line between abortion and family planning programs — just as the federal law requires and the Supreme Court has upheld.”

Perkins added:

It’s a shame that the federal Title X family planning program has been co-mingled with abortion ever since President Bill Clinton issued regulations not only removing the wall of separation President Reagan issued, but even illegally requiring groups to refer for abortion. The result is that Planned Parenthood — an organization that’s been under criminal investigation for selling baby body parts — gets roughly $60 million per year through what has become a slush fund for the abortion giant.

Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, a Republican who has served as co-chair of the House pro-life caucus, celebrated the Trump administration’s new rule.

“The Title X Program can now finally return to its originally intended purpose—the provision of family planning services, not abortions,” Smith said in a statement sent to Breitbart News. “Title X funding was never intended to facilitate Planned Parenthood’s hideous dismemberment, chemical poisoning, or deliberate starvation and forced expulsion of a defenseless unborn baby.”

“There is nothing benign or compassionate about killing a defenseless child,” Smith asserted. “I am grateful that the Trump administration has affirmed human life and dignity with this pro-child rule.”

Planned Parenthood condemned the new rule, referring to it as a “gag rule”:

BREAKING: Despite massive opposition, the Trump-Pence administration just released its unethical gag rule, making it illegal for Title X health care providers to refer patients for abortion. #NoGagRule #DontGagMyCare pic.twitter.com/i0PYZfUuRj

— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) February 22, 2019

Hawkins added that the finalized Title X rules “will redirect some taxpayer resources away from abortion vendors like Planned Parenthood, making more than half-a-billion from us all.”

“This is a life-saving policy change, as abortion vendors have used these family planning resources to underwrite their deadly enterprise,” she said.

As a result of the finalized rule and the clear line that HHS has drawn between family planning and abortion, Planned Parenthood and other abortion vendors who wish to continue to receive Title X family planning funds would have to choose between ending their abortion services from all locations that receive the Title X funding and moving those abortion services offsite to an entirely different location.

“This announcement follows a strong statement by the president in which he committed to veto any legislation that weakens federal policy on abortion,” Perkins said. “President Trump has been persistent in fulfilling his pro-life campaign promises including ensuring that taxpayers are not in a forced partnership with the abortion industry.”

March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement that “abortion is neither healthcare nor family planning – which is why the Title X program has no business funding it.”

“We applaud HHS Secretary [Alex] Azar and the Trump administration on this move that protects American taxpayers from paying for abortion through Title X,” she added. “At the same time, the new regulation protects low-income women who rely on Title X assistance because no funds will be cut from the program.”

Mancini observed that women in need can receive family planning services at federally qualified health centers (FQHC) – which outnumber abortion centers 20 to 1.

“At FQHCs women benefit from better regulatory oversight, a wider range of services, and more life-affirming options,” she said. “The new Title X regulations are a win-win for all Americans.”


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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Democrat-Led States to Sue Trump over Blocking Funds to Planned Parenthood



28 Feb 2019

Democrat-led states allied with Planned Parenthood are challenging the Trump administration’s new rule that would block about $60 million in family planning funding to the organization because it provides and refers for abortions.

Officials from Washington, Oregon, Connecticut, New York, and California say they will sue the Trump administration over the new rule that marks a clear line between abortion and family planning.

The rule, slated to go into effect in April, governs Title X, the federal grant program that provides funding for family planning services. It reinstates President Ronald Reagan’s “Protect Life Rule,” which bars the “co-location” of federally funded family planning clinics and abortion clinics.

The new regulation prohibits the use of the funds to “perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning.”

However, Planned Parenthood and other abortion vendors who wish to continue to receive Title X family planning funds may do so if they choose either to end their abortion services from all locations that receive the Title X funding, or move those abortion services offsite to an entirely different location.

While many of the claims against the Trump administration say its new rule will create a negative impact on low-income individuals, March for Life President Jeanne Mancini noted the new rule actually protects individuals at or near the poverty level.

“[The] new regulation protects low-income women who rely on Title X assistance because no funds will be cut from the program,” she said, observing that women in need can receive family planning services at federally qualified health centers (FQHC), which outnumber abortion centers 20 to one.

“At FQHCs women benefit from better regulatory oversight, a wider range of services, and more life-affirming options,” she said. “The new Title X regulations are a win-win for all Americans.”

However, in Washington, Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson joined with leaders from Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association to announce his lawsuit against the Trump administration. Ferguson claimed that more than half of the 91,284 patients in his state who received family planning services in 2017 were low-income individuals, reported KING5 News.

“I don’t file a lawsuit unless I’m confident we will prevail,” Ferguson said, according to Kaiser Health News. “We’ve filed 17 cases against this administration. We have not lost a case yet.”

Oregon Democrat Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum called the Trump administration rule “a direct assault on our core Oregon values.”

“[I]t is wrong and illegal and leaves our state with no choice but to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to prevent it from going into effect,” she said in a press statement.

In Connecticut, Democrat Attorney General William Tong said he would take “swift legal action” to preserve Planned Parenthood’s federal funding.

“This action seeks to push a politically-motivated, anti-choice agenda on millions of individuals who rely on the Title X program for access to birth control and safe reproductive health care,” he said, according to CTMirror.

However, Amanda Skinner, president of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, said, despite the new rule that would block federal funds, her organization can use privately donated funds and pursue other funding streams to make up for the $2.4 million in Title X funds received last year.

“We have seen repeated efforts on the part of this administration to dismantle programs or put into place programs that harm people who are already the most marginalized in our society,” Skinner said.

Pro-life and faith-based groups in Connecticut, which already do their own fundraising, are encouraged by the Trump administration’s new rule.

“We’re grateful for whatever funds are re-directed away from Planned Parenthood because we do not believe that taxpayer funds should go to organizations that offer services that many millions of Americans don’t support, as in abortions,” said Christina Bennett, communications director for the Family Institute of Connecticut.

In a press statement, New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James called the Trump administration’s rule “dangerous and unnecessary.”

“New York will not stand by as this Administration puts New Yorkers’ health at risk for politics, and we will take legal action,” she said.

Catholic News Agency reported Planned Parenthood of Illinois also said it would adapt to the new Trump administration rule to allow its patients to continue receiving family planning services.

Following the announcement of the finalized rule, the Illinois affiliate of Planned Parenthood launched Access Birth Control, an initiative that would provide birth control pills, IUDs, condoms, and Depo-Provera shots for free throughout the remainder of President Donald Trump’s first term.

Maine Family Planning, a women’s health care provider in the Pine Tree state, also announced last week that it would seek a preliminary injunction to block the new Trump administration rule. According to the Bangor Daily News, the organization receives about $2 million in federal family planning funds each year. One of its partner groups is Planned Parenthood.

Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Mills is allying herself with Maine Family Planning to “determine what we can do at the state level to protect the health care of Maine women.”

Pro-abortion rights Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is supportive of the efforts.

“I oppose this misguided rule change that could significantly diminish access for women to crucial contraceptive services, which have been critical in reducing the number of abortions in our country over the past three decades,” Collins said in a statement.

The senator’s spokeswoman said Collins would be looking into “potential legislative remedies” to the Trump administration rule in the near future.

Ann O’Leary, chief of staff to Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said Thursday her state also intends to sue the Trump administration.

O’Leary referred to the finalized rule as “unconstitutional” and said it was one of the issues “that fundamentally we disagree on in terms of who we are as people,” reported Herald-Mail Media.


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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