Abortion providers brace for new Trump funding fight

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 11/24/17 12:30 PM EST

The Trump administration has a new opportunity to target the funding of Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions.

The Department of Health and Human Services Department (HHS) will soon set the terms for obtaining grants under Title X, a federally funded family planning program long reviled by conservatives.

Officials within HHS who have been critical of Title X in the past now have the opportunity to reshape the program to fit the anti-abortion views of the administration.

Teresa Manning, the deputy assistant secretary of the office of population affairs at HHS, which oversees Title X, is a prominent anti-abortion advocate and a former lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee. That group led the charge for restrictions on the program under President Reagan.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/361609-abortion-providers-brace-for-new-trump-funding-fight

[niyad]

1. and the war on women continues apace.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. How Trump has made the Department of Health and Human Services a center of false science on contrace

The building in the background houses the Federal Trade Commission.

Column

How Trump has made the Department of Health and Human Services a center of false science on contraception

By Michael HiltzikContact Reporter
Contraception policy may not be the biggest target of the anti-science right wing — climate change and evolution probably rank higher — but it’s the field in which scientific disinformation has the most immediate consequences for public health.

So it’s especially disturbing that President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have stocked the corridors of health policy with purveyors of conclusively debunked claptrap about contraception, abortion, pregnancy and women’s reproductive health generally.

That’s the conclusion of a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine identifying four Trump appointees as carriers of the disinformation virus. What makes them especially dangerous, says the author, bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin law school, is that the “alternative facts” they’re purveying could influence an entire generation’s attitude toward contraception, for the worse.
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Among their themes is that condoms don’t protect against HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases and that abortions and contraceptives cause breast cancer, miscarriages and infertility. None of these assertions is true.
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[sandensea]

3. Abortion is one of the great ironies in modern GOP thought.

They obsess over the fetus; but hate the baby once it's born - especially if it's Brown or Black (or Jewish, or Asian, or their parents have no money, etc).

[sakabatou]

4. Death by a thousand cuts