Trump administration suddenly pulls plug on teen pregnancy programs

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By Jane Kay / July 14, 2017

The Trump administration has quietly axed $213.6 million in teen pregnancy prevention programs and research at more than 80 institutions around the country, including Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University.

The decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will end five-year grants awarded by the Obama administration that were designed to find scientifically valid ways to help teenagers make healthy decisions that avoid unwanted pregnancies.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and other top Trump appointees are outspoken opponents of federal funding of birth control, advocating abstinence rather than contraceptives to control teen pregnancies.

Among the programs that lost their funding: the Choctaw Nation’s efforts to combat teen pregnancy in Oklahoma, Johns Hopkins’ work with adolescent Apaches in Arizona, the University of Texas’ guidance for youth in foster care, the Chicago Department of Public Health’s counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections and University of Southern California’s workshops for teaching parents how to talk to middle school kids about delaying sexual activity.


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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[lillypaddle]

2. JFC!!!!

Fucking assholes.

[Initech]

3. God damn them!!!!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Nice. Let's get that number of teen mothers as high as we can.

[ck4829]

7. Of course! The planned DeVos mines will need lots of workers

[DK504]

13. Serf and donkey's that all they want.

[randr]

5. His revenge on Obama knows no ends

[barbtries]

18. that's the total bottom line for trump

and probably many republicans as well. SAD! to quote the asshole in chief

[demmiblue]

6. These people are evil, knuckle-dragging arseholes!

[MineralMan]

8. More Babies! We Need More Babies!

The fundamentalist Christian Right has that as its goal, it seems. They're fighting contraception, education about sex and everything else that has helped lower the number of unwanted pregnancies.

"...teaching parents how to talk to middle school kids about delaying sexual activity." Middle school kids? For pete's sake!

[bluedigger]

10. Exciting news for back room abortionists.

[Solly Mack]

12. Straight to the point.

Sadly.

[Thrill]

11. Keep chasing Obama's nuts

[DK504]

14. One copy of "The Handmaiden's Tale" please.

[tallahasseedem]

15. FFS!!!

I HATE this "Administration".

[dembotoz]

16. pity obama never sponsored a high ranking republican assisted suicide prevention program

[barbtries]

17. on top of everything else

republicans are fucking idiots.