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!
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".
Thanks for all that you do,
- Zach, PFAW
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