{"id":241925,"date":"2021-03-20T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241925"},"modified":"2021-03-20T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:37:09","slug":"biden-hhs-undo-trump-protect-life-titlex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-hhs-undo-trump-protect-life-titlex\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden instructs HHS to undo Trump Administration’s Title X ‘Protect Life Rule’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During his bid for office, Joe Biden vowed to fully fund Planned Parenthood<\/a>\u00a0despite the corporation’s numerous abuses and fraud, which should disqualify them from taxpayer funding. Now, the president is moving swiftly to keep his promise. In January, President Biden issued an executive order instructing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review President Trump’s 2019 Protect Life Rule which blocked facilities that received federal Title X family planning funds<\/a> from providing or referring for abortion. When this rule went into effect, abortion proponents like Planned Parenthood voluntarily withdrew from the Title X program rather than comply, freeing up millions<\/a> of needed dollars for organizations not connected to abortion.<\/p>\n

This week, Biden issued\u00a0a \u201cMemorandum on Protecting Women\u2019s Health at Home and Abroad,\u201d directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider \u201cas soon as practicable, whether to suspend, revise, or rescind, or publish for notice and comment proposed rules suspending, revising, or rescinding, those regulations, consistent with applicable law, including the Administrative Procedure Act,\u201d the\u00a0Office of Population Affairs (OPA) noted in a\u00a0press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 2015 report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated<\/a> that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates receive approximately $60 million annually through the Title X program.<\/p>\n

Money is fungible<\/a>, and taxpayer dollars sent to abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood free up<\/a> other dollars which would normally be used for salaries, facility rent, and general overhead. Live Action’s video below previously explained this process.<\/p>\n