{"id":328895,"date":"2025-04-01T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328895"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:42:34","slug":"trump-temporarily-withholds-planned-parenthood-title-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-temporarily-withholds-planned-parenthood-title-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration ‘temporarily’ withholds Title X funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, it was reported that the Trump administration was looking to freeze family planning funding<\/a>, potentially stripping Planned Parenthood of $20 million in federal taxpayer dollars. Now, that report has been proven accurate.<\/p>\n

Nine Planned Parenthood affiliates said they received notice<\/a> on Monday that Title X funding is being temporarily withheld from them. They have been given 10 days to show a willingness to comply with the Trump administration’s executive orders, and will then be informed as to whether the family planning funding will be permanently stripped or reinstated.<\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a>, “The notice pointed to ‘possible violations’ of federal civil rights law and President Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders \u2014 including prohibitions on promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion and ‘taxpayer subsidization of open borders.'” HHS is reportedly withholding these funds from seven other providers aside from the nine Planned Parenthood affiliates \u2014 16 providers in all.<\/p>\n

Politico reported:<\/p>\n

Clare Coleman, the CEO of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which represents most Title X providers, said in an interview that medical groups in the program are being penalized for following the rules. <\/em><\/p>\n

The groups applied for the money under the Biden administration, when \u201chealth equity was a core priority,\u201d and before Trump was sworn in or signed any executive orders, she said. <\/em><\/p>\n

And in those applications, many stressed a commitment to diversity for which they\u2019re now being penalized.<\/em><\/p>\n

Under Trump’s first administration, Planned Parenthood was stripped of its Title X funding<\/a> under the “Protect Life Rule,” which required organizations receiving family planning federal dollars to keep their family planning services separate, both physically and fiscally, from their abortion business. The organizations were also restricted from referring for abortions. The Biden administration disbanded that rule; it remains to be seen whether the current Trump administration is planning to reinstate the Protect Life Rule.<\/p>\n