Domestic gag rule un-American

[struggle4progress]

By Danielle Campoamor
Updated 2:56 PM ET, Mon February 25, 2019

... On Friday, the Trump administration unveiled the US Department of Health and Human Services' final version of its new Title X regulations. The revised directive would ban any health care clinics that perform abortions or refer patients to abortion providers from receiving federal funds. The final rule for Title X will go into effect 60 days after it's published in the Federal Register.

Title X is the only US federal grant program dedicated to expanding access to birth control and comprehensive reproductive health care. According to the Guttmacher Institute, Title X patients are "disproportionately low-income, one-third are people of color, and one in 10 have limited English proficiency." By stripping federal funding from health care facilities that provide comprehensive reproductive care that includes abortion and medically accurate information about abortion, this administration is hurting the most vulnerable among us, putting American families in danger and silencing doctors, while inhibiting them from providing the best care to their patients, all in the name of political ideology.

The Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, already blocks federal funds from paying for abortion services, with exceptions for cases of rape or when a person's life is in danger, so this administration's proposed update to Title X is redundant and unnecessary: there are zero tax-payer dollars paying for abortion care in this country.

Instead, the rule makes it increasingly more difficult for low-income people to procure birth control, prenatal care, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, cancer screenings, and emergency contraception, especially from Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education. According to Planned Parenthood's 2017-2018 annual report, the health care clinic provided almost 300,000 breast exams, detected roughly 70,000 cancers or abnormalities, served almost 1.9 million birth control clients, provided over 600,000 emergency contraception kits, conducted over 700,000 HIV tests, and diagnosed 240,000 STIs ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/opinions/title-x-domestic-gag-rule-campoamor/index.html

[sharedvalues]

1. The GOP wants to harm babies and moms

Un-Christian to the core

[RainCaster]

2. We need another rule

Any male GOP member who goes in for treatment - for anything - must receive mandatory counseling for castration. Any medical organization that suggests, or refers the patient for any other form of ED treatment will lose all government accreditations. Permanently.

[Lars39]

4. And I'd add my standard "no TURP for you!" to that rule.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[Hekate]

5. I hate them so much I am out of words

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. True

But remember Bush Sr. did the same thing and it was upheld by the SCOTUS