Get ready for another lawsuit: Trump just cut BIG funding to Planned Parenthood!

Planned Parenthood and their advocates will not be happy about this at all.

Trump’s HHS has just approved a rule that will cut YUGE dollars from Planned Parenthood and redirect it toward Christian family planning centers:

POLITICO – The Trump administration issued a final rule on Friday that could effectively cut off tens of millions of federal family planning dollars to Planned Parenthood and steer some of that funding towards anti-abortion, faith-based care providers.

While the revamp of the Title X program does not accomplish the full defunding of Planned Parenthood that Republicans have called for, it is a major step in that direction, and marks another major policy win for social conservatives looking to prohibit access to abortion.

Under the rule, clinics would still have to provide an array of contraceptive services but could partner or subcontract with groups that stress abstinence only or natural family planning. It would also bar Planned Parenthood and other health care providers that accept the funding from making any abortion referrals or performing abortions — regardless of the funding source — at the same facilities where they provide Title X services like birth control, mammograms and cancer screenings.

Politico notes that the rule will go into effect in 60 days.

But of course this will undoubtedly be taken immediately to the ninth circuit in order to get an injunction against the rule.

While this is certainly a victory, Politico points out that this doesn’t affect the bulk of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding:

Conservatives hailed the new Title X guidance as a de facto “defunding” of Planned Parenthood because the organization receives between $50 million and $60 million per year through the $286 million program. The organization was already barred from using that federal funding to provide abortions. The bulk of Planned Parenthood’s government funding, however, comes from state Medicaid programs, which are unaffected by this rule.

“The Title X program was not intended to be a slush fund for abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.

The Title X cuts could also hit other abortion providers that take Title X funds, but they would hit Planned Parenthood the hardest. The network of clinics serves 41 percent of the 4 million low-income people, most of them people of color younger than 30, who currently rely on Title X for their reproductive health care.

We take what we can get when it comes to Planned Parenthood and abortion.

Trump obviously can’t defund Planned Parenthood on his own, but it’s great to see his administration modifying rules like this to funnel tens of millions of dollars away from the baby-murdering industry and into those agencies that will fight to preserve the lives of the unborn.

Let’s pray that this doesn’t get stopped for very long, if at all, in the courts.


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