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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.
No one is "prohibited" from doing a dam thing. These are just conditions they have to meet in order to qualify for government funds. All government funds have strings attached.
If Planned Parenthood wants to be a self funding outfit, independent of government control, they can refuse the money.
What is the reason for imposing these conditions in order to qualify for government funding? They obviously are not viewpoint-neutral.
The real purpose is to discourage Abortion. Lawmakers have a real problem with a socialist outfit like going into the nation's ghettos with a legion of Kermit Gosnells butchering a new generation
The government has no business discouraging abortion or anything else.
PP is not "socialist." It just serves everyone. Where did this nonsense about "going into the nation's ghettos with a legion of Kermit Gosnells butchering a new generation" come from? Gosnell was one guy who is now serving life in prison, so why the hysterics?
African-American women, like all other women, have a choice as to whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. Unfortunately, African-American women have a higher rate of maternal deaths and complications from pregnancy, mostly due to lack of access to health care.
Are you idiots who are so concerned about "legions" of gosnells going to "ghettos" "butchering a new generation going to the "ghettos" to make sure that African-American women, who do not all live in "ghettos," get the vitamins and minerals necessary to construct a fully-formed human, a healthy diet, get regular medical checkups, and have opportunities to stay off their feet or get bed-rest, if necessary? You people are just sooooo caring.