Trump plans to impose abortion 'gag rule' on all taxpayer-funded women's health clinics

[Soph0571]

If you don’t think this administration has quietly declared war on women, you aren’t 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,” it’s 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|

Regressive and nasty

[shraby]

1. I think the first amendment is going to interfere with this rule.

[appal_jack]

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]

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.