Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities' Funding to Abortion Restrictions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: New York Times

Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman
May 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to announce on Friday a new policy barring Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health organizations from providing or mentioning abortions at any facility that receives federal family planning funds, according to two White House officials and others familiar with the matter.

The change, a top priority of social conservatives, is the latest move by President Trump to impose curbs on reproductive rights, in this case by walling off government money from any facility that offers women the option of terminating a pregnancy.

Federal family planning laws already bar direct funding of organizations that use abortion as a family planning method. But conservative activists and Republican lawmakers have been pressing Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, to tighten the rules further so that abortions could not occur in the same place, or be performed by the same staff, where federally funded reproductive health services were provided.

The policy would be a return to one instituted in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan that required a “physical separation” and “separate personnel” for abortion services from other family planning activities. It would also include a “domestic gag rule,” barring facilities that receive family planning funds from providing any information to patients about an abortion or where to receive one.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/trump-funding-abortion-restrictions.html

[dhill926]

1. Fuck this shit...

[no_hypocrisy]

2. It's going to end up like a Monty Python skit.

Instead of "abortion", patients will come in and ask for "dog kennels".

OTOH, I don't believe the courts will allow the WH to ban abortions at facilities that use tax dollars.

[dalton99a]

3. Goddamn assholes.

[mountain grammy]

4. Bullshit.. this stinking asshole

mixing church and state.. we're under the thumb of the religious fanatics.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. So he's firing up the War on Women, to shore up the Republicans' vote among bigots

He needs the fundamentalists to ignore the corruption, and concentrate on him as someone as willing to oppress women as they are. Because that's what they vote for.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Thought Congress had to approve spending decisions.