Trumps Health Department declares that life begins at conception

[turbinetree]

The Trump administration has repeatedly delivered on a campaign promise to the religious right that he’d prioritize a faith-based, anti-choice agenda. The latest evidence comes in the form of the draft strategic plan released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which defines life as “beginning at conception.”

The draft was released two weeks ago, before HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned, and it outlines the priorities of the agency and its governing offices. As Dr. Jen Gunter, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, pointed out, HHS went beyond the normative promise from conservatives to promote faith-based partnerships, and declared that the life of each human begins at conception.

“It’s concerning because HHS isn’t just a theoretical group that writes think pieces no one reads,” Dr. Gunter told ThinkProgress. “We are replacing science with beliefs.”

The plan is a road map provided to the public of where the agency intends to go, and it also serves as a guidance from the head to agencies and offices it governs. That includes the Office of Population Affairs, which oversees the Title X program, and the National Institute of Health, which funds contraception research. The new HHS goals outlined look drastically different from guidance issued under the Obama administration, as pointed out by health expert Timothy Jost. Even guidance issued under President George W. Bush’s secretary was tamer, as it prioritized faith-based partnerships but did not use such overt anti-abortion language.

https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-health-department-is-adopting-a-lot-of-anti-choice-rhetoric-790ea32651bb/


So I have question, these are the same assholes, that want to take my health care away from me and these are the same assholes that send people into war-----------------------

[greymattermom]

1. So do we add 9 months to everyone's age?

and can folks get medicare 9 months sooner, drink at age 20, etc.?

[Tanuki]

11. Counted in the census?

[malaise]

2. So if I get pregnant in the US and have the baby in Mexico, Jamaica, wherever

is my child a US citizen?

[janterry]

3. These are the policies

that keep Congress (the republicans) happy 'enough' to drag their feet on impeachment

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Fuck these meddlers.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Then as soon as the baby is born it becomes a useless eater in their eyes.

With no rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

[Solly Mack]

6. We are replacing science with beliefs.

Choosing life? Not.

Choosing ignorance - and ignorance kills.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. So

do we now celebrate our "Conception Days" instead of our actual birthdates?

[Greybnk48]

8. That belief predates Aquinas, ffs.

That's the homunculus theory that predates Aquinas's work on spontaneously aborted fetuses, and the advent of the microscope.

[Initech]

9. I'd like to tell these assholes where they can shove their faith based agenda.

Right up their faith based asses!

[logosoco]

10. So a fetus can be claimed on tax returns as a dependent?

Are they going to be counted in the census?

[HockeyMom]

12. All those dead babies not being given proper burials

Thrown in the trash with discarded tampons and pads.

[smirkymonkey]

13. These people are just sick and they won't be satisfied until we are all living under a

Christian version of the Taliban. I hate them so much!