Planned Parenthood is about to lose $60 million after they pull out of the Title X program next week, thanks to the Trump administration’s new rule:
CBN NEWS – Planned Parenthood is set to lose $60 million in the coming days, because of a Trump administration rule forbidding federal funds going to any family planning programs that refer patients for abortion.
The nation’s largest abortion provider has been in the Title X program for decades and receives almost $60 million in funding from the program each year.
Planned Parenthood said Wednesday it will withdraw from the program by the close of business on Monday, Aug. 19, unless the full 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco halts the new rules. The appeals court is weighing a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood and others to overturn the rules. The same panel of judges in July allowed the administration to go ahead with enforcement.
Planned Parenthood said the administration’s new policy is “unethical and dangerous,” amounting to a “gag rule” on clinicians.
In response, HHS spokeswoman Mia Heck said Planned Parenthood represents fewer than 400 of 4,000 service sites around the country.
“To the extent that Planned Parenthood claims that it must make burdensome changes to comply with the final rule, it is actually choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds to provide a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods,” Heck said in a statement.
Oh snap!
Seriously, it’s not a shock that Planned Parenthood would rather refer people for abortions – or do them – than receive federal funding. After all, murdering babies is their business and if they stop doing that, they will no longer exist.
While Congress is too feckless to completely defund them, I’m quite happy that they are going to be losing significant federal funding because of the new rule. Let’s just hope that an activist judge doesn’t overturn the rule before next week. Crossing fingers…