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The Trump administration has issued its final draft of a rule that makes sweeping changes to Title X, the federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income Americans.
Under the new rule, posted Friday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs, any organization that provides or refers patients for abortions is ineligible for Title X funding to cover STD prevention, cancer screenings and contraception. Federal funding for abortion already is illegal in most cases.
Title X does not cover abortions.
Isn't it amazing how fast the right to free speech gets tossed out the window. Not only is the organization prohibited from performing abortions, even though an abortion is a perfectly legal act, the organization cannot even refer a client to another facility. Other "gag rules" go so far as to prohibit any mention of it. Perhaps we need to educate people in the First Amendment, although it is hard to imagine that not everyone has heard about the right to free speech, given the amount of screaming about it.