Posted on 03/06/2017 3:22:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The White House, concerned about the possible political repercussions of the Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood, has proposed preserving federal payments to the group if it discontinues providing abortions.
The proposal, which was never made formally, has been rejected as an impossibility by officials at Planned Parenthood, which receives about $500 million annually in federal funding. That money helps pay for women’s health services the organization provides, not for abortion services.
“Let’s be clear, federal funds already do not pay for abortions,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said on Monday. “Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept. Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is nonnegotiable.”
Mr. Trump confirmed the discussions in a statement on Monday to The New York Times.
“As I said throughout the campaign, I am pro-life and I am deeply committed to investing in women’s health and plan to significantly increase federal funding in support of nonabortion services such as cancer screenings,” he said. “Polling shows the majority of Americans oppose public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice. There is an opportunity for organizations to continue the important work they do in support of women’s health, while not providing abortion services.”
Indeed, Mr. Trump made similar statements as a candidate, putting him at odds with other Republicans in a primary race characterized by conservative views.
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A masterful strategy from the President.
Now PP and the Dummycrats have to make a choice - what matters more to them, the Health of a Woman or Abortion on demand ?
And there is an opportunity to reveal the truth: Planned Parenthood is all abortion, all the time. Everything else is window dressing.
And Hillary Clinton must be prosecuted.
Exactly what does the half billion actually pay for?
““Let’s be clear, federal funds already do not pay for abortions,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president “
Utter nonsense.
I suspect that Trump is actually genuinely surprised the depth of PP’s commitment to abortion. But he gave them a choice, it’s up to them: abortions or federal funding.
Isn’t killing babies their profit center?
Well played sir, well played!
Brilliant move! Team Trump = MAGA!
It just gets better and better with this guy.
Well played. Just don’t let them hide their activities or funnel money through a new organization. Evil does evil.
“That money helps pay for women’s health services the organization provides, not for abortion services.”
Weapons-grade stupid.
Very sharp..!
They lose either way.
Not per se. It's the organ resale that provides outsized entrepreneurial profits to individual groups within PP.
As I understand it.
LOL is PP for real..ALL they do are abortions..ALL they do is perform murder..that is how they make their living..by murdering babies and they call it “Health care”
Since every live birth is a cosmic failure to a Democrat, I think we can predict where this might go.
Well I know for a fact that when I worked for MediCal they were paying for abortions for 14 yr old girls. I’m sure they still do.
Good one.
Their cancer screenings are a TRICK. The only people going in to PP are going to avoid pregnancy, or to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. Every patient gets a Pap smear and a breast manual exam. There you go. Most get abortions. That is why they are there.
But some women and girls might go there after a close scare, just to get birth control. So that way, the number of “cancer screenings” would be higher than the number of abortions. It’s a stat trick.
Not feasible. Money is fungible, and if the organization receives $100mil, who can say how much went to suck babies’ brains into the sink, and how much went for mammograms?
Correct. They call that “post natal services’. My ex-GF was a nurse and that’s how they called it at the hospital she worked for temporarily.
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