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Dear Friend,
The Trump administration has cut off family-planning funds for
healthcare clinics that provide abortion—or even refer patients for
abortion.
Trump's outrageous family-planning "gag rule" is an underhanded way of
cutting off funds for Planned Parenthood clinics that serve more than
four million people per year—just to score political points. Planned
Parenthood has announced it will forgo federal funds and serve
low-income families using emergency money—but its resources won't last
forever. That's why Common Dreams is providing hard-hitting coverage of
Trump's attacks on abortion rights and the gag rule to ensure that it's
repealed once and for all. .
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The Hyde Amendment already prevents federal funds from supporting
abortion care. Trump's gag rule ups the ante on that racist policy,
denying Title X funds—which are used to provide STI tests, cancer
screenings, and birth control—to any clinic that provides abortion.
Doctors aren't even allowed to give patients information about or refer
people for abortion care. The policy presents healthcare clinics with an
impossible choice: continue to serve low-income families, but withhold
potentially lifesaving information about abortion care and
contraception? Or withdraw completely from the Title X program? Planned
Parenthood clinics aren't taking the bait. They'll keep serving anyone
who needs care, regardless of income, without federal support.
But they'll need help to fulfill that goal. And not all of the 4,000
clinics that now get Title X funds to provide can afford to do the same.
Common Dreams will keep providing in-depth coverage of how Trump's gag
rule is affecting all healthcare clinics—shining the kind of spotlight
needed to get this dangerous policy repealed . .
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Kimberly Monaghan
Board Chair
for the whole Common Dreams news team
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