The Great Lie about Women's Health
There is a story which hasn't received much attention. That is the President's vanquishing of the all powerful organization known as Planned Parenthood! There is a regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that will prohibit family planning clinics that receive funding under Title X from providing privately funded abortions or referring patients to abortion services.
Title X:
"Established in 1970, Title X is the only federal statute that issues grants to clinics that provide family planning and health services to low-income and uninsured people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford such services.
Approximately $286 million in Title X grants are administered to health centers and family planning clinics, such as Planned Parenthood, through the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) each year.
According to an April 2018 report from the Congressional Research Service, 4 million people received services funded by Title X in 2016. There are 4,000 Title X-funded health centers throughout the country, with Planned Parenthood serving approximately 41% of Title X patients."
https://news.yahoo.com/planned-parenthood-just-forfeited-60-192500046.html
At first Planned Parenthood went the usual liberal route of seeking a friendly Judge to aid in obstructing this President. The request was directed at the Ninth Circuit Court in order to grant an injunction to block the policy while it and other healthcare organizations appealed the court’s earlier decision to allow the administration’s new policy to move forward. The Court would not grant Planned Parenthood's request to temporarily block the rule from going into effect, but could issue another ruling next month.
Therefore Planned Parenthood decided to forfeit the $60 million in federal funding rather than comply with a regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Planned Parenthood chose to withdraw if it couldn’t do abortions. So much for the phony claim they are only interested in women’s health.
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The mission of Planned Parenthood is:
to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual;
to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services;
to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality;
to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that mission? Seems like anyone with more than half a brain would be supporting such a mission statement.
Do they really believe in it, when they turn away money because they can't recommend abortion? I say they care less about women's health than they do abortion.
The point of the article.
He seeded an anti-Planned Parenthood article that is literally cheering the fact that up to 4 million poor Americans will likely lose access to family planning and health services.
"the President's vanquishing of the all powerful organization known as Planned Parenthood!"
Am I to assume he disagrees with the seed but agrees with the PP mission statement? I'm just saying I agree with the mission statement and wonder what anyone might have against it.
No, we should take it up with that asshole Trump, who pandered to his fundie misogynist base to do everything in their power to kill funding for PP, which provides a LEGAL service with NO taxpayer dollars. But that wasn't enough for the assholes.
You can think whatever you want about abortion, but it is legal, it's a woman's right, and these assholes should be ashamed of themselves. I'm sure they will have no interest in caring for the babies that will be born, and they won't give a crap about the women who die. All they care about is embryos and zygotes.
"There is a story which hasn't received much attention. That is the President's vanquishing of the all powerful organization known as Planned Parenthood!"
How is that "not" an anti-Planned Parenthood article?
As far as I could tell, it did not tell any lies, it just was excited about taking away the health care of 4 million low-income and uninsured people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford such services.
So PP should just continue to serve 4 million Americans who can't afford their services? Do you expect all the doctors to work for free? Title X was the vehicle by which those 4 million Americans were able to go to Planned Parenthood without insurance and without the ability to pay because there was a need. Those patients won't magically not need health services when you take away their option to go to Planned Parenthood, we'll just see that move over to hospital emergency care and EMTALA which increases the cost of health care for everyone else.
They are following through with their mission statement every day. They live up to their words unlike so many lying conservatives who use hate and fear along with deceit to confuse their gullible followers to attack their enemies even when its not in their best interest.
I know the truth about Planned Parenthood, that is all. My wife and I used them frequently early in our marriage when I was between jobs and my wife needed access to lower cost birth control and her annual health checks. They are an incredible resource to millions of Americans and it makes zero sense to let brain washed religious conservatives force their religious opinions on everyone else in our secular society. This is not a theocracy so get religion the fart out of other peoples health care decisions and access to legal abortions services.
Seriously? If they would just follow a "few simple rules"? Like give up performing any private funded abortion and never tell any women its a legal available option? Are you even listening to yourself? "We can leave abortion legal as long as no one ever performs an abortion and you never tell anyone its available...".
I was paraphrasing all of the frustratingly ignorant anti-abortion opinions I've been reading here. If you're unable to see any likeness perhaps it's because you're trying to view it from inside the Trojan horse of anti-abortion lies.
The easiest way for conservatives to lose power forever is to make abortion illegal again. They will drive women to the streets, activate an anti-conservative voting base, and go down the drain.
The new avatar cracks me up! John, abortion was never really illegal, was it?
I applaud them, abortion is for women's health...
That seems to be the only thing for a woman's health.
Don't worry, Democrats are promising to do away with the Hyde Act completely. That way Planned Parenthood can drop any pretense about their true purposes.
"Planned Parenthood, our nation's largest abortion provider, today made a choice not to separate its abortion operation from Title X services, and in doing declined Title X funding," she said in a statement. "Planned Parenthood's decision today doubles down on their ultimate goal, which is political abortion advocacy, not healthcare."
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, called it a "huge victory" for taxpayers and women. She said community health centers, which far outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics, would fill the gap left to provide care to Title X patients.
"Planned Parenthood showed its true colors by prioritizing abortion over family planning, refusing to comply with the Protect Life Rule and dropping out of the Title X program," she said in a release. "The Protect Life Rule does not reduce family planning funding by a single dollar, it simply directs taxpayer funding to family planning providers who stay out of the abortion business."