Posted on 06/14/2023 7:24:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
Controversy emerged in Oklahoma on May 24th, when officials announced that HSS rescinded the $4.5 million family planning grant under Title X of the Public Health Services Act.
The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in late May, denied $4.5 million in funding to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) for family planning services because state law protects the unborn from abortion. The Federalist Society aptly described HSS’ action as “weaponizing its grant-giving power against states that refuse to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.”
This treatment of Oklahoma is not the first time the Biden administration denied aid to pregnant mothers and their born (and unborn) children in pro-life states. With Dobbs v. Mississippi Department of Health having returned the issue of abortion to the states, the Administration turned the principle of federalism on its head by essentially punishing Oklahoma, and previously Texas, for adopting pro-life public policies.
In August of 2022 the administration refused to expand Medicaid funding to mothers of newborns in Texas. Moreover, in July 2022, Biden signed an Executive Order basically ignoring the Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 (and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1980 in Harris v. McCrae). The Hyde Amendment is a federal statute banning federal Medicaid funding for abortion, a position Biden long supported as a senator and later vice president, but has since repudiated.
Controversy emerged in Oklahoma on May 24, 2023 when officials of the OSDH announced that HSS rescinded the $4.5 million family planning grant under Title X of the Public Health Services Act. In so doing, HHS unlawfully ignored the language of Title X pursuant to which, “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion........
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Keep your dirty blood money and shove it up your butt
just the normal actions of a criminal administration.
Theoretically, would Joe Biden, if a Freeper, be allowed to post a comment on a “Catholic Caucus” thread?
I know he’s not a “Catholic in good standing” (CIGS) - is that a disqualification?
Who decides what “in good standing” means?
Is it generally understood? Is there a secret handshake?
I’m curious.
Once, long ago I was a “CIGS” but that was LONG AGO! (Thank God!)
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