President Trump Saves Taxpayers $260M, Cuts Funding To Liberal ‘Holy Grail’
Source: https://goo.gl/ryyUXq
Oh Oh, now the liberal left will become really unhinged. Well, at least more than usual.
Since the wimpy Republicans in Congress wouldn’t do it, on Friday the Trump administration moved forward with a proposal that would effectively ban Planned Parenthood and such organizations from providing abortion and related services under the same roof as operations funded by federal family-planning grants.
The already established Hyde amendment actually bans the use of competitive federal family-planning grant funds for abortion. But until now organizations such as Planned Parenthood have traditionally used the federal money for other health services while using private money for abortions and related services at the same facilities and with the same staff.
So basically what President Trump wants to do here is stop federally funding abortion altogether. And why not? Why does the already overburdened American Taxpayer have to pay for people who forgot, or aren’t even responsible enough to use birth control?
Of course, the left has already started with the “basic women’s rights” argument, but honestly, is k*****g an unborn baby a right? And don’t you liberals dare start with the whole “what if it was because of r**e” argument. You guys know very well that only represents a tiny minuscule number of pregnancies.
When exactly did “women’s health” turn into the idea that us taxpayers need to fund the k*****g of unborn babies? There is no reason whatsoever for us to have to fund this. there are countless celebrities who have money to burn on the left who can use their money to fund abortion on demand. Or even George Soros who has no problem throwing away any amount of money if it goes against anything the right stands for.
Here is more on this story via The Weekly Standard:
“The executive action is based on a 1988 Reagan regulation, but can’t eliminate most of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding.
On Friday, the Trump administration will announce a proposed rule to cut taxpayer funding to abortionists like Planned Parenthood under Title X, a program that provides $260 million annually in federal funding for contraception and other “family planning” initiatives.
“The proposal would require a bright line of physical as well as financial separation between Title X programs and any program (or facility) where abortion is performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning,” a Trump administration official tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email.
The 1970 law establishing Title X states: “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.” But in the 1970s and 1980s, the law was interpreted to allow Title X programs to refer patients for abortions, be co-located with abortion clinics, and lobby for pro-abortion policies—so long as federal dollars did not directly fund abortions. In 1988, President Reagan’s secretary of Health and Human Services issued regulations to end these practices that blurred the line between funding contraception and promoting abortion.
The 1988 Reagan regulation was immediately challenged in court and never enforced, but it was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision in the case Rust v. Sullivan. By the time abortionists might have actually lost their Title X funds, however, Bill Clinton took office and k****d the Reagan regulation, a policy that has remained in effect to this day. This anti-abortion regulation wasn’t reinstated by the George W. Bush administration.
“Unlike the Reagan regulation, the proposal will not prohibit counseling for clients about abortion, but neither will it include the current, potentially illegal mandate that projects must counsel and refer for abortion,” a Trump administration official tells TWS. “This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they’re willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning, which is required by the Title X law. Any grantees that perform, support, or refer for abortion have a choice – disentangle themselves from abortion or fund their activities with privately raised funds.”