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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump plans to impose abortion 'gag rule' on all taxpayer-funded women's health clinics
If you dont think this administration has quietly declared war on women, you arent paying attention.
The Trump administration last year reinstated and expanded a rule banning family planning clinics that get aid money from the United States from performing abortions or even discussing abortion with their patients. Often called the global gag rule, its led to clinic closures and reductions in crucial services around the world. And now it might be coming to the United States.
The White House is reportedly considering a domestic gag rule that would essentially apply the restrictions of the global rule to providers that receive federal Title X funds, which help low-income patients get services like contraceptive counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections. Such a rule would force Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health providers to either stop discussing abortions with their patients or stop receiving Title X money.
The Trump administration last year reinstated and expanded a rule banning family planning clinics that get aid money from the United States from performing abortions or even discussing abortion with their patients. Often called the global gag rule, its led to clinic closures and reductions in crucial services around the world. And now it might be coming to the United States.
The White House is reportedly considering a domestic gag rule that would essentially apply the restrictions of the global rule to providers that receive federal Title X funds, which help low-income patients get services like contraceptive counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections. Such a rule would force Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health providers to either stop discussing abortions with their patients or stop receiving Title X money.
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/12/1763720/-Trump-Plans-To-Impose-Abortion-Gag-Rule-On-All-Taxpayer-Funded-Women-s-Health-Clinics-In-U-S|
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Trump plans to impose abortion 'gag rule' on all taxpayer-funded women's health clinics (Original Post)
Soph0571
May 2018
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. I think the first amendment is going to interfere with this rule.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)2. If we have anything resembling Constitutional checks...
...and balances left, then yes, it certainly will.I hope a Federal judge stops this nonsense quickly.
-app
Girard442
(6,063 posts)3. The Talibornagain and the Reichwingers are using Trump as a battering ram.
It is their plan to use him to knock down parts of our society they hate, knowing it will be him that bears the consequences. It will be his face that smashes into the gate, not theirs.
Trump, of course, is too stupid to see that.