{"id":277472,"date":"2022-10-09T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277472"},"modified":"2022-10-07T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:48:08","slug":"nashville-approves-500k-grant-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nashville-approves-500k-grant-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville approves $500k grant for Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, the Nashville Metro Council filed legislation<\/a> for a $500,000 grant to fund abortion travel. This week, that legislation, which will give the grant to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, passed.\u00a0According to the Tennessean<\/a>, the $500,000 grant will be given to Planned Parenthood for sex ed and birth control purposes. Though the previous legislation included funding travel costs for women to get abortions, that language was not included in the final bill.<\/p>\n

Money for this grant was obtained by cutting funding from other departments, including Nashville police, libraries, and parks.<\/p>\n

And though funding abortion was not included in the grant, it was clear that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> decision overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em> had a direct impact on the vote, which passed 19-13.\u00a0“We’ve got an unprecedented removal of a constitutional right that’s been in existence for 50 years,” At-large Council member Bob Mendes said. “We’ve got Congress that won’t act to protect them. We’ve got a state that’s fully outlawed it and the fact is that our local governments everywhere in America are on the frontlines of trying to preserve maximum protection for women.”<\/p>\n

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Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, celebrated the ruling in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Metro Nashville Council gets it: the Dobbs decision created a public health emergency, especially in Tennessee, where extremists have banned abortion without exception,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were approached by council leaders who wanted to make a positive impact, and we provided recommendations to city leaders based on our expertise in preventing unplanned pregnancies.\u201d<\/p>\n