{"id":197112,"date":"2019-02-22T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197112"},"modified":"2019-02-23T21:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T03:22:01","slug":"trump-cuts-family-planning-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-cuts-family-planning-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin’s rules could strip Planned Parenthood of $60 million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services released its final rule change on Title X, the federal family planning program. For 60 days, HHS allowed public comments on the rule change, and 500,000 comments were received and considered. According to a press release<\/a> from HHS, “The Title X program annually serves approximately 4 million people, and the updated rule seeks to ensure a holistic and health-centered approach, safeguarding the short- and long-term family planning needs of more women, men, and adolescents in need of services.” The new rule change has left the abortion industry very unhappy, to say the least.<\/p>\n

The new rule requires a “clear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning.” This, of course, would mean that in order for Planned Parenthood to receive its usual $60 million annually in Title X funding, it would need to separate its abortion business from its other services, financially and physically (120 days to comply financially, and one year to comply physically). Planned Parenthood’s facilities are all housed under the same roof, so to speak, which means that any funds going toward Planned Parenthood for birth control services are also serving to keep its abortion business functioning, due to fungibility<\/a>. The video below explains this well:<\/p>\n