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Trump expected to cut Planned Parenthood funding through regs
The Hill ^ | 05/16/18 06:00 AM EDT | By Jessie Hellmann

Posted on 05/16/2018 10:16:44 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion

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.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedparenthood
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1 posted on 05/16/2018 10:16:44 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Why not just arrest them all for a federal conspiracy to commit murder?

That’s all the organization is.


2 posted on 05/16/2018 10:21:39 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Fine by me.


3 posted on 05/16/2018 10:23:17 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

A leftist judge awaits...


4 posted on 05/16/2018 10:24:48 AM PDT by daler
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Some Constitution hating judge already has written an order mandating we pay for infanticide.


5 posted on 05/16/2018 10:57:45 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

President Trump and the White House don’t see walls in front of them, only obstacles which provide them an opportunity to overcome.


6 posted on 05/16/2018 11:15:35 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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