{"id":205788,"date":"2019-07-04T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205788"},"modified":"2019-07-03T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T21:18:03","slug":"new-york-city-rejects-millions-hospitals-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-city-rejects-millions-hospitals-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City rejects $1.3M for hospitals in favor of choosing abortion over healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

In protest of the Trump administration\u2019s Protect Life Rule<\/a>, New York City officials chose to reject $1.3 million in federal funding for public hospitals in order to continue promoting abortion. The announcement comes weeks after New York City became the first municipality to pay directly for the abortions of low-income children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liberty Counsel reports in a press release<\/a> that Mayor Bill de Blasio, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Dr. Herminia Palacio, and President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals Dr. Mitchell Katz made the announced that as long as the Protect Life Rule is in effect, they will refuse Title X funding, which supports family planning services for low-income women.<\/p>\n

As Live Action News previously reported<\/a>, the Protect Life Rule requires a \u201cclear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning.\u201d\u00a0The rule has prevented Planned Parenthood, which refuses to separate its abortion business from the limited birth control and cancer screenings it offers, from receiving about $60 million<\/a> annually in Title X funding.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0New York City: Where pizza parlors are safer than \u201cfilthy\u201d uninspected abortion clinics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio characterized the pro-life protections as a \u201cgag rule,\u201d claiming<\/a>, \u201cThe doctors and nurses at the heart of New York City\u2019s public hospital system took an oath to protect and serve patients, and we will do whatever\u2019s necessary to ensure they are able to provide the best medical treatment. Our decision to reject Title X funds sends a clear message \u2013 we will not stand by while the Trump Administration tries to censor our providers and prevent them from giving patients information about abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/a> quoted de Blasio in part from a news conference on his decision to reject federal funds:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur public hospitals will continue to give full reproductive care; no public hospital will be prohibited from giving full truthful advice to their patients,\u201d de Blasio said during a news conference at Bellevue Medical Center, the oldest continuously operating hospital in the U.S., founded in 1736. \u201cThere\u2019s no city that turns down federal money lightly. We\u2019re not going to accept this gag rule in New York City. We\u2019re going to make sure that women\u2019s reproductive health rights are honored. We have to make sure nonprofits are made whole as well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is, of course, classified as a “nonprofit” organization, though it has excess revenues<\/a> in the tens of millions each year.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0CDC data reveals New York City is the \u2018late-term abortion capital\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Abortion is not health care, and it is not necessary to violently end the life of a preborn child with a beating heat in order to advance the best interests of women.<\/p>\n