Trump Tells Planned Parenthood Its Funding Can Stay if Abortion Goes

[spanone]

The White House, concerned about the possible political repercussions of the Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood, has proposed preserving federal payments to the group if it discontinues providing abortions.

The proposal, which was never made formally, has been rejected as an impossibility by officials at Planned Parenthood, which receives about $500 million annually in federal funding. That money helps pay for women’s health services the organization provides, not for abortion services.

“Let’s be clear: Federal funds already do not pay for abortions,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said on Monday. “Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept. Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is nonnegotiable.”

But the outreach to allies of Planned Parenthood is a glimpse of the internal struggle inside a White House torn between trying to satisfy the conservative base that elected President Trump and responding to the views of his daughter Ivanka Trump, who urged her father to tread carefully on the Planned Parenthood issue during the Republican primary contest.

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[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Does Trumpy think that abortions are illegal?

He apparently thinks that abortions are some kind of crime, like, oh, maybe, arranging for the Iran Revolutionary Guard to launder money through the construction of a hotel in Azerbaijan.

Oops!

No. Trumpy can't do that kind of thinking.

[patricia92243]

2. I didn't realize abortion money was not provided with the other health care

benefits PP offers. Who does pay for abortions? If the patient pays, is it at a lower price? Low income people need help - not condemnation.

[Greybnk48]

3. PP doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

And this is why, Trumpy, you will not get YOUR Supreme Court pick.

[spanone]

4. Lets be clear: Federal funds already do not pay for abortions, what part of this don't they get?

[patricia92243]

7. My question was who does pay? Is the service free of charge? The public

really, really needs a clear answer. I don't quite understand it and I am 100% for choice.

[rhiannon55]

10. Women have to pay for their abortions

In 1976, three years after Row vs Wade, the Hyde Amendment was passed, disallowing Medicaid from paying for abortion. That amendment blocked any federal money from paying from abortion. Here's a link:

http://billmoyers.com/content/five-facts-you-should-know-about-the-hyde-amendment/

[still_one]

5. While I hope your assessment is correct Grey, the fact that they have the majority in the

Senate, and if they so desire can eliminate the filibuster, gives us very little leverage

[Greybnk48]

8. I think they will be hesitant to kill the "Goose that laid the Golden Egg."

The Republican's have run on main pillars for over 30 years. Two are tax cuts (appeals to the moderates and over-turning Roe v Wade (appeals to the religiously insane).

They have nothing if these are gone. Nothing. So they may bluster, but I don't think they'll trash their main hot button issues.

Also: In regard to the Supreme Court pick. What they do now will be done to them in the future and they know it. I don't know if this is enough to hold them back. We'll see.

[still_one]

9. Hope you are right

[Greybnk48]

11. I hope so too.

I just went over and donated to Planned Parenthood just this minute. God I hate these fuckers.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Pussygrabbers don't get to tell women anything

Fuck off you malignant Trumpslime.