{"id":198950,"date":"2019-03-26T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198950"},"modified":"2019-03-25T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:16:54","slug":"states-refuse-familiy-planning-abortion-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/states-refuse-familiy-planning-abortion-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"States vow to refuse family planning funds if abortion centers can’t get any"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, the Trump administration announced plans to change Title X rules<\/a>, blocking abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving family planning dollars if they refuse to separate their abortion business from their other family planning-related services. In response, numerous states have filed lawsuits<\/a> in an attempt to block the new rules, but for some states, that’s not enough. Others are threatening to refuse to accept federal dollars if those dollars are no longer allowed to prop up the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

Politico reports<\/a> that Oregon, Washington, and Maryland are considering turning down Title X funding, complaining that “new restrictions would undermine medical care for patients, and, in some cases, violate state laws.” More states may follow suit, with only four out of the 23 states suing the administration telling Politico that they plan to continue participating in Title X. The states currently planning on taking the Title X funding are Delaware, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Nevada.<\/p>\n

If these states do turn down the federal funding, it could then create a funding gap that some of the states aren’t sure how they will fill — which could actually<\/em>\u00a0remove most options from poor women. Politico reports that Washington’s lawsuit states that they will be forced to “restrict the population of patients eligible for subsidized family planning services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rules that will potentially be put into place if the lawsuits fail are seemingly uncontroversial. Title X recipients will not be allowed to refer women for abortions<\/a>, and they will also be required to keep facilities where abortions are committed separate from facilities where family planning services are provided. It will also require Title X recipients to follow state and local laws on sexual abuse reporting, something abortion facilities — and Planned Parenthood in particular — have been guilty of flouting.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Multiple states sue, Planned Parenthood mobilizes against pro-life HHS rule<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n