Trump to Bar Abortion Referrals By Family Planning Clinics

[demmiblue]

Source: Bloomberg/AP

Washington (AP) -- The Trump administration says it will prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, a move certain to be challenged in court by abortion rights supporters.

The policy released Friday by the Health and Human Services Department pleased religious conservatives, a key building block of President Donald Trump's political base.

The administration plan would also prohibit family planning clinics from being housed in the same location as abortion providers.

Planned Parenthood has said the administration appears to be targeting them.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/trump-to-bar-abortion-referrals-by-family-planning-clinics?utm_content=politics&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_medium=social

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Now that he has had all the referrals he needed done are in the past.

Quite simply anti choice, anti woman human beings are going to be the reason this species dies and soon.

Cons exist for one reason, to be anti woman. Add cons and GOP and WH and traitor and putin and so on and on and on and the same types in other countries like Iran or wherever and before long they will make it so the whole species is gone.

[mac56]

2. Every time Dufus feels cornered, he throws a bone to his base.

[Quackers]

5. THIS! nt

[MH1]

9. Yes. nt.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. His base is the problem

One nut, we could deal with; 100,000,000 not so much.

[RKP5637]

3. He must going down a list and also brainstorming how he can be most injurious to

people each day. I will say it again, he is a sociopathic sadist!

[Ohiogal]

4. Clearly they are all misogynists.

How any woman can claim to be a Republican defies logic.

[niyad]

6. and the goddamned war on women continues apace in this fucking misogynistic administration

[demmiblue]

7. More:

The Trump administration issued a final rule on Friday that could effectively cut off tens of millions of federal family planning dollars to Planned Parenthood and steer some of that funding towards anti-abortion, faith-based care providers.

While the revamp of the Title X program does not accomplish the full defunding of Planned Parenthood that Republicans have called for, it is a major step in that direction, and marks another major policy win for social conservatives looking to prohibit access to abortion.

Under the rule, clinics would still have to provide an array of contraceptive services but could partner or subcontract with groups that stress only abstinence or natural family planning. It would also bar Planned Parenthood and other health care providers that accept the funding from making any abortion referrals or performing abortions — regardless of the funding source — at the same facilities where they provide Title X services like birth control, mammograms and cancer screenings.

Critics of the new policy, which will almost certainly end up in federal court, say it will amount to a "domestic gag rule" that prohibits health care providers from fully counseling their patients on their reproductive choices without government interference. Abortion rights groups have already sued the Trump administration over the way grant funding under the program is being distributed, arguing the criteria improperly stress abstinence over access to all FDA-approved forms of contraception.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/22/planned-parenthood-funding-trump-1164038

[Ilsa]

8. "Faith-based care." Eventually, pregnant women will be told

that they don't need diagnostic maternity care, because God is gonna give them what they deserve, no matter how sick the baby is or how dangerous a pregnancy is to the mother.

[CrispyQ]

10. I don't even have any words anymore. Just rage & tears. -nt

[no_hypocrisy]

11. It's going to be like Monty Python sketch

(asking for dog kennels instead of mattresses). If you want an abortion, you ask for plastic surgery or baby carriages.

[jodymarie aimee]

12. thanks for post Demin

you might change BAR to BAN, tho..you bar someone the front door, it is temp...ban is permanent..

[kimbutgar]

13. I hope the files Cohen has has evidence that the orange maggot paid for abortions himself.

Wouldn’t that be delish?

[PSPS]

15. No prob. Just another mulligan.

[maxrandb]

14. Has anyone asked him about his "good friend" Bob Kraft yet?

Oh, that's right. To the Religious nuts, keeping women locked up for pro-creation is in accordance with the "good book".

These people are sick.

[Solly Mack]

16. K&R

POS

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. Adding a link to the WaPo

Health
Trump administration bars clinics that provide abortions or abortion referrals from federal funding
Planned Parenthood, which stands to lose $60 million a year, calls on courts, Congress to block the rule.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
February 22 at 1:51 PM

The Trump administration took aim at Planned Parenthood Friday, issuing a rule barring groups that provide abortions or abortion referrals from participating in the $286 million federal family planning program — a move that is expected to direct millions toward faith-based providers.

Under the new mandate, which opponents vow to challenge in court, federally funded family planning clinics can no longer refer a patient for abortion and will have to maintain a “clear physical and financial separation” between services funded by the government and any organization that provides abortions or referrals for abortions. Recipients of grants under the Title X program, which serves mostly low-income women, were already prohibited from performing abortions with those funds. ... The change was celebrated by social conservatives who oppose abortion and helped elect Trump. Health and Human Services officials have said the change is necessary to ensure transparency and the legal and ethical use of taxpayer funds.
....

The rule takes effect 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register. However, clinics will have 120 days to comply with the requirement that family planning and abortion services are kept financially separated and a year to comply with the physical separation requirement. ... The rule, which was announced in May, was modeled after requirements adopted under President Ronald Reagan but never enforced. The Trump regulation does allow for a limited exception to the referral ban. If a pregnant patient has decided to have an abortion and makes an explicit request for a referral, a physician would be allowed to provide a list of comprehensive care providers as long as she or he does not indicate which of them offer abortion services.

The administration implemented a similar rule — nicknamed the “Mexico City gag rule” — for grantees of U.S. foreign aid that prevents organizations that get those funds from referring, providing or discussing abortion with patients.

Ariana Eunjung Cha is a national reporter. She has previously served as The Post's bureau chief in Shanghai and San Francisco, and as a correspondent in Baghdad. Follow https://twitter.com/arianaeunjung

[The_jackalope]

19. Watching in horror from north of the border.

The view has seemed ever more unreal since the day after the election. This is not the United States I thought I knew.

[Honeycombe8]

20. I'm not sure what this means, and why anyone would need a referral.

There are no family planning clinics in most towns and cities across the U.S. If you want an abortion, you ask your local friendly doctors where the nearest abortion services are. If your doctor won't tell you, you hit the internet.