{"id":185258,"date":"2018-07-10T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=185258"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:38:21","slug":"action-trump-admin-tax-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/action-trump-admin-tax-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action! Tell the Trump administration your tax money shouldn’t pay for abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In May, the Trump administration announced proposed changes<\/a> to the distribution of Title X family planning funding, issuing the Protect Life Rule. This act, according to Live Action, does the following three things<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n1. It forbids giving federal Title X funds (of which Planned Parenthood<\/a> receives about $60 million a year) to any family planning facility that also has an abortion facility on site.<\/p>\n

2. It forbids giving Title X funds to any family planning facility that refers its clients to abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

3.It requires family planning facilities that receive Title X funds to follow all state and local laws that mandate the reporting of suspected child sexual abuse, child rape, sexual abuse and rape of adults, and human trafficking, among other crimes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Protect Life Rule is in line with most Americans’ beliefs, according to recent polling, as 83 percent of the American public is against taxpayer funding of abortions<\/a> — and if federal funds are going toward facilities which also offer abortions, then those funds are also supporting abortion<\/a>. The video below explains this principle, known as fungibility:<\/p>\n