Trump expected to cut Planned Parenthood funding through regs

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The Trump administration may take action to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood as a result of pressure from congressional Republicans and anti-abortion lobbyists.
Opponents of abortion have launched an all-out campaign urging the administration to bring back Reagan-era abortion restrictions on federal family planning dollars that would target Planned Parenthood.The regulations would ban organizations that receive family planning dollars under the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds organizations providing services like birth control to low-income women and men, from promoting abortion or referring patients for abortions.
Former President Reagan first issued the regulations, which Democrats describe as a “domestic gag rule,” in 1988. They also require a physical and financial separation of Title X funding recipients from abortion providers.

More at: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/387876-trump-expected-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding-through-regs

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The Trump administration announced May 18 that it will seek to cut millions of dollars in funding to abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, that funnel federal Title X family-planning grants into their abortion businesses. Title X distributes some $260 million annually in family planning funding, and Planned Parenthood alone snags up to $60 million of that cash, much of which can be used to benefit its murderous abortion enterprise.
The 1970 legislation that established Title X states: “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.” However, over the next two decades, abortion businesses such as Planned Parenthood pushed the interpretation of the measure, using Title X family-planning programs to refer women for abortion, locating such programs in their abortion facilities, and using Title X moneys to lobby for policies that furthered abortion.
In 1988, the Reagan administration issued regulations through the Department of Health and Human Services intended to tighten up Title X and end the use of funding to promote abortion. However, after being challenged in court, the regulations were never enforced, and when he took office, Bill Clinton promptly killed the Reagan regulations, so abortion businesses have continued to cash in on Title X funding to the present.

Under President Trump’s proposed “Protect Life Rule,” that loophole would be closed, as Planned Parenthood and other abortionists would be denied Title X dollars unless they physically separate their abortion business from tax-funded family planning programs in which they participate. That would require abortion providers to house their family planning programs at separate facilities and to hire separate staff to administrate the non-abortion programs.
“The proposal would require a bright line of physical as well as financial separation between Title X programs and any program or facility where abortion is performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning,” explained an unnamed Trump administration official.
The official added that unlike the Reagan regulation, the Trump proposal “will not prohibit counseling for clients about abortion, but neither will it include the current, potentially illegal mandate that projects must counsel and refer for abortion. This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they’re willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning, which is required by the Title X law. Any grantees that perform, support, or refer for abortion have a choice — disentangle themselves from abortion or fund their activities with privately raised funds.”

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/29084-trump-to-make-more-federal-cuts-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-providers