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Planned Parenthood Funding Cut Off with Big Beautiful Bill

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A big win for America today!

With the Senate votes cast, funding for Planned Parenthood has been cut.

Though it isn’t a permanent one, it is a start. And its progress!

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So this is a W!

The Guardian whines about this. Enjoy:

Planned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women’s and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the United States, may not survive the Trump administration. Long a hated symbol on the right, and unable to summon enthusiastic support from the left, the medical network has nevertheless remained a symbolic and material cornerstone of women’s equality, serving millions of patients – many of them indigent or low-income – each year, and housing one of the biggest feminist and pro-choice lobbying and litigation shops in America, in addition to being one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers.

Since returning to power in January, the Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting Planned Parenthood’s clinics, excluding the group from the vast Title X family planning program, on the pretext of scurrilous claims that they have violated federal anti-discrimination law by adopting resolutions stressing their “commitment to Black communities” and by providing medical treatment to undocumented immigrants.

Now, the supreme court has struck another blow. Last week, the court ruled that patients cannot sue to challenge their states’ exclusion of Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs. The ruling threatens to transform the Medicaid program, giving states leeway to ban Medicaid reimbursements to any practice that provides politically disfavored medicine – notably abortion, but potentially also including contraception, IVF, gender-affirming care, or HIV treatment. The court functionally nullifies a clause in the bill that established the Medicaid program, which gives patients the right to seek care from “any qualified provider” of their choosing. Now, the choice of provider can be dramatically limited by the state on the basis of that provider’s political beliefs.

While abortion-providing medical practices like Planned Parenthood are being pushed out of Medicaid, the program is giving more and more money to crisis pregnancy centers, the Christian fake clinics that lure in frightened women, lie to them about their health, do not provide comprehensive care, and often lack any doctors on staff. These fake clinics, which are lavishly funded and outnumber real reproductive health centers nationwide at a rate of three to one, are not a substitute for real healthcare. But they are a means of restricting women’s freedom.

Of course the author doesn’t like Christians. And the accusations used is a classic example of projection.

She’s literally describing abortion clinics that lie to the women.

Here’s the author of that article. With that leather jacket, she looks like a real bona fide rebel.

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President and Founder of Live Action, “a global human rights movement dedicated to ending abortion and building a culture of life” points out:

I wonder if Planned Parenthood is involved with the kids?

It’s not like they would try to promote promiscuous behavior that would lead to abortion which would get them another customer, would they?

Half?

We’re aiming for all.

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“But Planned Parenthood gives other health services for women.”

Let’s look at the data:


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