Trump Expected to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding

[Chris]

The Trump administration may take action to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood as a result of pressure from congressional Republicans and anti-abortion lobbyists.

Opponents of abortion have launched an all-out campaign urging the administration to bring back Reagan-era abortion restrictions on federal family planning dollars that would target Planned Parenthood.

The regulations would ban organizations that receive family planning dollars under the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds organizations providing services like birth control to low-income women and men, from promoting abortion or referring patients for abortions.
Former President Reagan first issued the regulations, which Democrats describe as a “domestic gag rule,” in 1988. They also require a physical and financial separation of Title X funding recipients from abortion providers.

Republicans see the action as a way to motivate the GOP base ahead of the midterm elections, where the party’s majorities in the House and Senate are in play.

“The life issue is a huge motivator for the right. Getting a win on the pro-life side, even if it’s regulatory rather than legislative, would be huge, and encourage people to come out and vote for the members who pushed for action on this,” said Kelly Marcum, a legislative assistant for the conservative Family Research Council, which has been pushing for the changes.

Due to a lengthy legal battle, the regulations were never fully implemented but were upheld by the Supreme Court after Reagan left office.

But with a Republican president who has promised to defund Planned Parenthood, now is the perfect time to restore the regulations, abortion opponents say.

Their hope is that the restrictions will dissuade Planned Parenthood clinics from participating in Title X. Some clinics could also become ineligible if their family planning services are offered in the same location as abortion services.

“It’s a way to wiggle away at Planned Parenthood federal funding, and a way to reinforce the idea that abortion is not family planning,” Marcum said.

While federal law prohibits the use of federal funding for abortions in most cases, abortion opponents and Republicans have long argued money that goes to Planned Parenthood still indirectly supports the procedure.

Anti-abortion advocates have been frustrated over the GOP Congress’s failure to defund Planned Parenthood. The GOP’s slim majority in the Senate has been the obstacle.

Frustration swelled when Congress passed a spending bill earlier this year that excluded a measure defunding Planned Parenthood, a result negotiated between Democrats and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.

This month, 85 groups opposed to abortion, including the Family Research Council, signed on to a letter urging Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to restore the Reagan-era regulations. Forty-three Senate Republicans and 153 House Republicans also sent letters to Azar pushing for the changes.

Lobbyists have said the administration seems receptive to their calls.

“They seem very open to it,” said Tom McClusky, vice president of government affairs at March for Life. “It was part of the discussions during the transition, and I think it really is just a matter of timing.”

Trump has already taken a number of actions pushed by anti-abortion advocates.

Trump has reinstated the so-called Mexico City policy, which bans the use of taxpayer dollars for foreign nongovernmental organizations that provide or promote abortions; rescinded Obama-era guidance that sought to protect Planned Parenthood from state-led defunding efforts; and broadened exemptions for employers that have moral or religious objections to providing contraception to their employees.

Anti-abortion advocates also occupy top ranks at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“We’re very optimistic. The administration has said they’re on our side with this, and we’re excited. Hopefully Secretary Azar, who is very pro-life, will act on this soon,” Marcum said.

HHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Scoring a win before the midterms is crucial, abortion opponents say, so Republicans can build on their majority in the Senate and fully defund Planned Parenthood next year.

“We’re pleased with the promises President Trump has upheld, but we also need Congress to stay on top of this,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, a grass-roots organization that mobilizes young people opposed to abortion.

The push from abortion opponents has enraged congressional Democrats, who say the changes would restrict access to reproductive health care.

“We strongly oppose efforts to undermine the integrity of the Title X program and harm the millions of people who rely on it for care,” 45 Senate Democrats wrote Tuesday in a letter to Azar.

“Federal health policy should be evidence-based and produced with the best interests of patients in mind.”

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/387876-trump-expected-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding-through-regs


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[ElNono]

These is the kind idiocy that gives Democrats votes... you would think Trump being an 'outsider' wouldn't fall for it, but we'll see...

[Pavlov]

Trump gives in to pressure.

I believe it.

Did the same with DPRK too.

Soft.

[Chris]

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[Chris]

Three Women in Congress Introduce Bills to Defund Planned Parenthood


https://truepundit.com/three-women-in-congress-introduce-bills-to-defund-planned-parenthood/

[Chris]

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[koriwhat]

planned parenthood where the only thing planned is murder and not parenthood. lmao sickening

[ElNono]

Shoulda sent it when they controlled the House...

[Pavlov]

Shoulda sent it when they controlled the House...Could've build walls around them.

[Chris]

Planned Parenthood Suffers Major Loss in Appellate Court


https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/plannedparenthood2018-1200x630.jpg



The homicidal maniacs at Planned Parenthood took a huge loss in a case involving the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s decision to terminate the death centers from the list of the state’s eligible Medicaid providers.

In 2015, undercover video was released showing that Planned Parenthood “doctors” in the state were profiting off of the sale of fetal tissue, which is highly illegal. For this reason, the state decided to nix Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid plans, and a lawsuit ensued.

The pro-choice crowd, backed by their friends in the mainstream press, claimed that the videos were “altered” or “doctored” in order to shift responsibility away from the merchants of death and onto those who filmed the illegal activity.

Thursday, Planned Parenthood lost on both claims – that the organization should not be removed from Texas’ Medicaid program, and that the videos were doctored – in a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The ruling affirms the fact that it is within the rights of the state of Texas to drop Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. It also concluded that Planned Parenthood lied when it said that the videos were deceptively edited.

“[A] report from a forensic firm conclud[ed] that the video was authentic and not deceptively edited,” the ruling said.

Not only is the ruling a win for state’s rights, but also conclusively proves that Planned Parenthood officials broke the law in selling fetal tissue from abortions, which the organization has often denied.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/planned-parenthood-suffers-major-loss-in-appellate-court/

[spurraider21]

"but also conclusively proves that Planned Parenthood officials broke the law in selling fetal tissue from abortions"

:lol no

[Blake]

Planned Parenthood Suffers Major Loss in Appellate Court


https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/plannedparenthood2018-1200x630.jpg

Chris applauding vandalism

[ElNono]

:lol big league politics
:lol Texas

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1099034120527794177

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1102623804164063232

[boutons_deux]

CA has sued Trash for his gag rule.

[koriwhat]

https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1099034120527794177

:tu planned parenthood where only murder is planned.

[Chris]

:tu planned parenthood where only murder is planned.

The plan is for no parents in the hood.

[Randy]

:tu planned parenthood where only murder is planned.


The plan is for no parents in the hood.
:lmao two incel virgins talking about pregnancy.

[Spurtacular]

These is the kind idiocy that gives Democrats votes... you would think Trump being an 'outsider' wouldn't fall for it, but we'll see...

No.

[Chris]

:lmao two incel virgins talking about pregnancy.

We're talking about abortion, the opposite of pregnancy.

Try to keep up please, and stop using buzzwords that you don't understand.

Thanks in advance.

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1102623804164063232
"science" good now

[Donnie Nelson]

We're talking about abortion, the opposite of pregnancy.

Try to keep up please, and stop using buzzwords that you don't understand.

Thanks in advance.
Can’t have an abortion without a pregnancy, dipshit :lmao
Can’t have a pregnancy without sex
Can’r have sex when you’re a dickless incel :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Teen Abortions Surged In Texas After Republicans Defunded Planned Parenthood

The policy had the opposite of its intended effect.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-planned-parenthood-teen-abortion_us_59653229e4b09b587d63018a

[boutons_deux]

Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds

Supporters of the global gag rule say defunding abortion providers will reduce abortions (https://lifedefender.org/2017/06/5-reasons-why-defunding-planned-parenthood-is-crucial/).

However, researchers from Stanford University (https://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-96862011001200010&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en) in 2011 found that this U.S. policy actually made women in sub-Saharan Africa twice as likely to have an abortion.

those findings in Africa and shows that the global gag rule had

an even greater effect in Latin America.

How a US law hurts women abroad

Funding cuts under the global gag rule cause health care staff reductions, clinic closures and contraceptive shortages.

Without family planning counseling and birth control,

there are more unintended pregnancies – and, consequently, more abortions.
Numerous studies (https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2016/restrictive-laws-do-not-stop-women-having-abortions) confirm that making abortions harder to get doesn’t stop them from happening.

It just makes them less safe, because the procedure is not necessarily performed in sterile facilities by qualified doctors.

https://theconversation.com/abortions-rise-worldwide-when-us-cuts-funding-to-womens-health-clinics-study-finds-112491

Ramping up abortion worldwide and misogyny as Repug/Christian Taliban national policy

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1107259845764358144

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1111724624134365184

[boutons_deux]

Appeals court says Ohio may withhold Planned Parenthood funding

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Planned Parenthood’s constitutional challenge to an Ohio law depriving the organization of state funding because it performs abortions, handing a victory to anti-abortion advocates.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-ohio/appeals-court-says-ohio-may-withhold-planned-parenthood-funding-idUSKBN1QT23V (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-ohio/appeals-court-says-ohio-may-withhold-planned-parenthood-funding-idUSKBN1QT23V)

Misogynist, racist Repugs' war on poor women who depend on PP.

Diseased, dead poor woman? they don't GAF. A fertilized egg is more important.

[ElNono]

How’s the expecting coming along? It’s only been what, a year?

[ElNono]

No.

It absolutely is. This is the typical older Christian Conservative ‘issue’, where government intervention is suddenly not just good but mandatory (esp since they lost Roe, etc).

There’s nothing in this for independent, outside closing PPs where they go get a Pap test.

[AaronY]

It absolutely is. This is the typical older Christian Conservative ‘issue’, where government intervention is suddenly not just good but mandatory (esp since they lost Roe, etc).

There’s nothing in this for independent, outside closing PPs where they go get a Pap test.
At the time of Roe v Wade most republicans were pro-abortion

"Six of the seven justices in the majority were Republican appointees. The only Democrat appointee, Byron White, voted against Roe v. Wade."

the guy wrote the majority opinion Blackmun iirc was a Nixon appointee. Barry Goldwater's wife was a big planned parenthood figure and Goldwater himself was a big pro-choice guy till he died as he thought government should stay out of people's business. It wasnt until Reagan started courting Falwell that GOP became anti-abortion.

[AaronY]

"Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush were all pro-choice, and they were not party outliers. In 1972, a Gallup poll found that 68 percent of Republicans believed abortion to be a private matter between a woman and her doctor. The government, they said, should not be involved."

[AaronY]

It wasnt until Planned Parenthood decided to start murdering black babies that the Dems got behind if I remember my D'Souza correctly

[Chucho]

Planned Parenthood's first MO was to stem black the growth of the black population. Sanger wrote that in her equivalent to a mission statement.

[AaronY]

Planned Parenthood's first MO was to stem black the growth of the black population. Sanger wrote that in her equivalent to a mission statement.
I knew there was something about it we Dems liked

[Chucho]

I knew there was something about it we Dems liked

Your schtick needs work.

[AaronY]

Your schtick needs work.
Dont know if you can call genociding black babies a schtick..but whatever

[Pavlov]

Planned Parenthood's first MO was to stem black the growth of the black population. Sanger wrote that in her equivalent to a mission statement.Is that relevant now?

[Chris]

AaronY got them dead baby jokes and loves him some euthanasia.

[Chucho]

Dont know if you can call genociding black babies a schtick..but whatever

You're aware of your schtick. You're not derp "Nother Level" stupid...but whatever.

[Chucho]

Is that relevant now?

In regards to Aaron's comment I responded to, yes.

[AaronY]

AaronY (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=27732) got them dead baby jokes and loves him some euthanasia.
Well duh, I'm a Democrat so of course. i mean try to keep up here bud

[Pavlov]

In regards to Aaron's comment I responded to, yes.Is it relevant to PP today?

[Isitjustme?]

How’s the expecting coming along? It’s only been what, a year?

Abortion will be a thing of the past soon just you wait and see

[ElNono]

Abortion will be a thing of the past soon just you wait and see

It’s going to be a wedge issue as usual, it’s just more difficult for Trumpists to call any kind of moral high ground.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/AGirlToOne/status/1112410617900605440

[UnWantedTheory]

Abortion will be a thing of the past soon just you wait and see
Extremely unlikely. People always forget the pendulum swings back the other way. A majority of our citizens are pro choice for starters, so even if they can strike it down now, it will only be temporary.

[boutons_deux]

Extremely unlikely. People always forget the pendulum swings back the other way. A majority of our citizens are pro choice for starters, so even if they can strike it down now, it will only be temporary.

Once the SCOTUS5 or 6 say abortion is unConstitutional, citizens don't matter. The Christian Taliban MINORITY will have installed Christian Sharia in the Constitution.

[UnWantedTheory]

Once the SCOTUS5 or 6 say abortion is unConstitutional, citizens don't matter. The Christian Taliban MINORITY will have installed Christian Sharia in the Constitution.
Very true, but again, it is all temporary. We seem to judge things by our assumed life span, as we are self centered creatures, but a decade or two is not very long tbh. Again, the pendulum always swings the other way. There are certain things that will win out in the end, and abortion rights is one of them. They fought gay marriage as well, for example.

[boutons_deux]

"it is all temporary"

It has taken 45 years to overturn abortion rights, and decades for the oligarchy to get 5 hard right (non-"squishy") so-called "justices" for life on SCOTUS.

Overturning the overturning of right to abortion will take decades.

The oligarchy, who now owns and operates govt, is making sure the pendulum won't swing, certainly not against them.

Gay marriage and LGBT still aren't Federally protected

Based on recent history, and current affairs, I assume, conservatively, the worst for the future. And nobody here has said how the future, at least in USA, will be better.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/RealKyleMorris/status/1133417947102404609?s=19

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1133442829429235713?s=19

[boutons_deux]

Again, the pendulum always swings the other way.

Historically, when the pendulum is held by powerful clique, the only solution has been violent revolution.

[Chris]

Texas governor signs law banning cities and counties from doing business with abortion providers


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-governor-signs-law-banning-cities-and-counties-from-doing-business-with-abortion-providers-today-2019-06-07/

[Will Hunting]

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1133442829429235713?s=19
The idea that Republicans are pretending to help blacks people by restricting abortions is hilarious.

[Chris]

Trump cutting off a spigot for the DNC and giving babies a chance to live has got them riled up.


https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1163611468270407680?s=20
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1163564546885337089?s=20

[koriwhat]

Reproductive care huh? There's no care in PP just like there's no parenthood and only plans of genocide.

[Chris]

Reproductive care huh? There's no care in PP just like there's no parenthood and only plans of genocide.

Just another pig with lipstick. Left always sugar coat their agendas:

Planned Parenthood
Affirmative Action
Climate Change
Green New Deal
Reproductive Care
Affordable Care Act

Looks good on the surface and border line infallible. Linguistics 101

[koriwhat]

Just another pig with lipstick. Left always sugar coat their agendas:

Planned Parenthood
Affirmative Action
Climate Change
Green New Deal
Reproductive Care
Affordable Care Act

Looks good on the surface and border line infallible. Linguistics 101

Indeed chris.

[Chris]

Kirk goes in:


https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1163639210516946944?s=20

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1172674140026875904?s=20

[TheGreatYacht]

Use birth control

[RandomGuy]

Texas governor signs law banning cities and counties from doing business with abortion providers


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-governor-signs-law-banning-cities-and-counties-from-doing-business-with-abortion-providers-today-2019-06-07/

Texas told cities they couldn’t fund abortion providers. So Austin is funding abortion access instead.
On Tuesday night, the Austin City Council approved $150,000 for organizations that help women afford incidental costs like transportation, lodging and childcare when they seek an abortion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/11/austin-texas-passes-abortion-access-funding-going-around-senate-bill-2/

[Chris]

Austin is f'd and unfuckable.

[koriwhat]

Texas told cities they couldn’t fund abortion providers. So Austin is funding abortion access instead.
On Tuesday night, the Austin City Council approved $150,000 for organizations that help women afford incidental costs like transportation, lodging and childcare when they seek an abortion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/11/austin-texas-passes-abortion-access-funding-going-around-senate-bill-2/

how is abortion "childcare"? :lmao

just like planned parenthood doesn't plan for you to be a parent and only plans to scoop that baby out of you and sell its organs et al to the highest bidder.

[koriwhat]

beth stelling says it best in "the standups" season 1 on netflix. :lol

[ElNono]

The idea that Republicans are pretending to help blacks people by restricting abortions is hilarious.

:lol

[boutons_deux]

Texas told cities they couldn’t fund abortion providers. So Austin is funding abortion access instead.
On Tuesday night, the Austin City Council approved $150,000 for organizations that help women afford incidental costs like transportation, lodging and childcare when they seek an abortion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/11/austin-texas-passes-abortion-access-funding-going-around-senate-bill-2/

Briscoe :lol Cain is the same guy who wants to use an semi-automatic long gun or sumpin to murder Beto before Beto could confiscate them all

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