{"id":67739,"date":"2015-07-23T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=67739"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:47:13","slug":"obama-admin-denies-sex-trafficking-relief-funds-pro-life-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/obama-admin-denies-sex-trafficking-relief-funds-pro-life-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama admin denies sex-trafficking relief funds to pro-life groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obama-planned-parenthood.jpg\" alt=\"obama planned parenthood\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Obama Administration has imposed new rules denying federal funds to charities helping sex-trafficking victims if they refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals, the Christian Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/obama-requiring-christian-groups-to-offer-abortion-referrals-to-receive-funds-for-trafficking-victims-141789\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines for the Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Refugee Resettlement passed in June now state that to qualify for aid grants, organizations must offer \u201cthe full range of legally permissible gynecological and obstetric care,\u201d and suggest groups with religious objections provide abortion services through a third party.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The US Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 Migration and Refugee Service received such grants for their work in helping sex trafficking victims until 2011, when the Obama Administration changed the rules to give \u201cstrong preference\u201d to abortion-friendly applicants. This new change looks to cut pro-life organizations out of the picture entirely.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Family Research Council\u2019s Center for Human Dignity Director Arina Grossu blasted the Obama White House as \u201cstaunchly pushing its radical pro-abortion agenda at the expense of women who have been traumatized by sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And March for Life President Jeanne Mancini suggested the rule change may be illegal as well, given that the Weldon Amendment attached to HHS appropriations annually \u201cprohibits discrimination against pro-life health groups from getting funding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has imposed new rules denying federal funds to charities helping sex-trafficking victims if they refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals, the Christian Post reports. Guidelines for the Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Refugee Resettlement passed in June now state that to qualify for aid grants, organizations must offer \u201cthe full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":67841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,20,2659,4316,723,4317],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama admin denies sex-trafficking relief funds to pro-life groups - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The rule change may be illegal, as the Weldon Amendment \u201cprohibits discrimination against pro-life health groups from getting (HHS) funding.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/obama-admin-denies-sex-trafficking-relief-funds-pro-life-groups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama admin denies sex-trafficking relief funds to pro-life groups - 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