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PFAW Member,

We've all been horrified to learn that because of Trump's "gag rule"
Planned Parenthood and other clinics will no longer have access to Title X
Funds. Even scarier? Who's now receiving those funds. Meet Obria.

Since 2014, the Obria Group, a California nonprofit affiliated with Obria
Medical Clinics, has been masquerading as a healthcare group, and now has
begun expanding its network of fake, anti-abortion centers to become a
national chain. These Obria “health centers” - like thousands similar to
them across the country - are created to confuse and manipulate pregnant
people with the goal of preventing them from learning about or accessing
abortion services. Not only do their “clinics” give false info about
abortion, but they also REFUSE to provide evidence-based contraceptive
choices to their patients, including oral contraceptives, IUDs, or condoms
- the very tools that help prevent unplanned pregnancy and abortion!

Who’s funding Obria? You are!

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition and demand that the federal government stop providing
Title X funding to these anti-choice clinics!>>

Title X is a crucial government program that, since 1970, has helped 4
million low-income Americans access hormonal birth control, family
planning services, and reproductive health care. This year, the Trump
administration made extreme changes to the program which allows Obria to
qualify for federal “family planning” funding. In 2019, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $1.7 million to
Obria in Title X funding and an additional $1.7 million for each of the
grant’s subsequent two years.

How can a “women’s health center” that opposes basic contraceptive methods
provide comprehensive family planning services? It can’t.

This means that HHS is now denying funds to legitimate health care
providers like Planned Parenthood because they provide abortions or
abortion referrals, and redirecting that money to facilities like those
run by Obria. These anti-abortion centers, run by groups like Obria, aim
to replace Planned Parenthood clinics and leave millions of LGBTQ folks,
people of color, low-income, and rural Americans without access to
reproductive health care. This is a dangerous shift away from
comprehensive sexual healthcare, including birth control, and it will have
a devastating impact disproportionately on poor women and folks of color.

Anti-birth control, anti-abortion women’s health centers should never
receive Title X funding. No federal funding should go to groups that
withhold information, lie, and promote completely bogus services like
“abortion reversal".

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to demand Congress stop HHS from awarding family
planning funds to Obria and other anti-abortion, anti-birth control
centers>>

Thanks for all that you do,

- Zach, PFAW

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