Posted on 05/01/2018 1:33:50 PM PDT by huldah1776
Nearly 200 members of Congress and 100 state and national pro-life groups are calling on the Trump administration to take taxpayers out of the abortion business.
The coalition sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday asking him to cut off abortion providers from Title X dollars, which are earmarked for family planning services.
“For far too long the Title X Family Planning Program has been integrated with abortion centers,” the letter read. “It is time to act swiftly to disentangle abortion centers from the Title X network. Doing so would be consistent with the President’s pledge and subsequent actions to defund Planned Parenthood and reallocate funding to alternative providers.”
The letter was signed by 41 senators and 153 representatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Tell me how money isn't fungible?
It could easily make it easier. It will require a pro-life charm offensive, which is something that Donald Trump seems to have the nerve to do.
Tell me the full argument, showing in what way this is germane.
Granted that PP is a byzantine entity, it also has an abortion branch and a non-abortion branch, and they supposedly do not share. On the other hand, the one gets name equity from the other.
It isn’t even money fungibility; it’s name fungibility. Through carrying out less controversial things, but sharing a name, the non-abortion branch of PP makes the abortion branch look better.
PP clinic directors who have converted testified the opposite of what you’re claiming. The money goes into one pot so money that doesn’t pay for abortions frees up other monies that do end up supporting abortion services.
Should have been done years ago.
Are Title X funds to PP decreed by Congressional law, or just a “regulation”, or executive order?
Or they claimed the opposite. And who knows the nod, wink. That’s why I called it Byzantine. Nobody knows what goes on behind PP’s closed doors.
Federal law can certainly officially forbid such sharing. But till it’s possible to audit, and perhaps such auditibility can be written into the law, this might not be enough.
Since money donated to PP is fungible, that means if the non-abortion branch is getting government funding, then more of the privately donated dollars can go to the abortion branch.
Hence, even if taxpayer funds get earmarked only for the non abortion branch, the result is more money for the abortion branch, and the only way to avoid that is to only fund entities that have no abortion branch to which they can shift more private donations to because their non-abortion branch got government dollars.
So bottom line, fungibility of private donations results in fungibility of taxpayer dollars, even if the regulation is that they are not fungible.
And more importantly, WHAT money goes into such a pot? If it’s United Way, for example, that’s bad on United Way. But government contracts don’t have to be like this. Of course it needs to be enforceable as well.
How far could we push this argument, however. I would assert that it’s up to EVERYBODY donating to something like PP to be sure that they support what their money might go to. Those who leave it up to chance will find the more nefarious thing prospering.
The guilt for the abortions isn’t on those paying the auditable funds. It’s on those who give the discretionary funds, because if you give “part-evil” discretion then you’re responsible if they choose evil.
Cecile Richards and all of the PP need to be aborted.
Anyone else for a pool on how long before some court says “No you can’t”?
Then why did these 41 Senators and Congressmen vote for the spending bill that allocated money to Planned Parenthood?
So using that same logic, if I donated large amounts of money to Hamas, and had some way to verify that my donation only went to fund hospitals that they run, then I bear no guilt for any funds they receive from others that they are then able to divert to terrorist activities, in greater measure, as a result of my donation.
Should I be guiltless because I am only funding an activity that I support (hospitals), even though I’m giving to an entity that also engages in an activity that I abhor (terrorism), with the knowledge that because of an abundance of non-discretionary funds the group gets from others, my donation indirectly results in more funds being available for terrorism? Shouldn’t I be donating to a group like Red Cross instead?
Give Cecile Richards and all of the PP a VERY LATE TERM abortion.
from wikipedia (no this is not a doctoral dissertation)
Funding
Title X is funded every fiscal year by Congressional appropriations. It received approximately $317 million in FY2010 appropriations and enacted spending. President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for FY2016 would provide Title X with $327 million, which, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), would represent an increase of nearly $11 million over 2010 enacted spending.[6]
Title X receives further funding from Medicaid reimbursements and additional federal sources. Combined with Congressional appropriations, these funding sources amount to over half of the operational funds provided to Title X grantees. The remainder of the funding comes from State and local funds, in addition to private sources like insurance and some patient fees.[1]
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grants
https://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/about-title-x-grants/index.html
So send him a bill he can sign big-mouths.
It’s not Trump’s fault nothing has been done. He said he’d sign legislation.
Send him some.
Perhaps instead of writing letters the congress-critters should do some legislation that does what they ask for....unless it shows up in a Bill, it;’s just posturing without intent.
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