More: Owners of Livonia pot grow house have to sell home, pay back taxes in plea deal. It can tout its other services all it wants, but no amount of STD tests makes up for a single human life killed by abortion. Thus the deaths of the unborn will be facilitated at the Farmington Road location.
That alone is reason enough to tell Planned Parenthood it is not welcomed. Planned Parenthood knows very well its business is controversial, yet it deliberately bought a building not 12 feet from a residential district and right next door to a Catholic dentist. He had no idea he was working for Planned Parenthood and was greatly upset. Planned Parenthood tried to build a mega-abortion center in Auburn Hills. A deed restriction held by the Comfort Inn stood in its way.
When the hotel owners found out that Planned Parenthood intended to build an abortion center in its own front yard Planned Parenthood was taken to court and lost. The question will play out in the courts. Meanwhile, other developments in the past year have been less favorable to those advocating for defunding.
In the Republican effort to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, provisions to effectively defund Planned Parenthood were typically included, notably in the " skinny repeal " bill that came close to passing the Senate. But in the end, none of the bills passed. In the omnibus spending bill that Congress passed and Trump signed in March , defunding supporters were unable to attach a provision to curb federal funding for Planned Parenthood and groups like it.
Then, in August , the Senate voted down an amendment to a spending bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Finally, in December , the Supreme Court decided not to hear a pair of cases related to state efforts designed to keep groups like Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding.
In the cases at issue, states argued against the rights of individuals to legally challenge state moves to curb federal funding, including Medicaid dollars, to Planned Parenthood. In the absence of a high court ruling, lower court rulings stand, and they mostly sided with the rights of individuals to challenge state actions. So the Supreme Court's non-decision was seen as a victory for the Planned Parenthood side. Unlike the other developments listed here, the court's decision was outside the purview of the Trump administration, but it could have had a substantial impact, said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Now that Democrats have taken control of the U. House of Representatives, defunding Planned Parenthood through Congress is even more unlikely. One move involves proposed regulations for Title X funding that would, among other things, block funds for Planned Parenthood and other providers that offer abortion services.
Another effort involves proposed administration regulations to two separate monthly bills to be sent to people who bought Affordable Care Act marketplace plans that include abortion coverage -- one bill for the bulk of their health coverage, and a second bill exclusively for abortion services.
That adds extra hassle for people who use ACA plans to get services at Planned Parenthood, offering an indirect avenue to de-fund the group and reduce coverage of abortion generally, Ely said. O'Steen, executive director of National Right to Life, an anti-abortion group. The bottom line is that the Trump administration's chances of carrying through on this promise are smaller now that Democrats control the U. House of Representatives.
If the regulatory proposals are finalized, we'll reconsider, but for now, we rate this promise Stalled. Washington Post, " Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding ," December 10, Washington Post, " Behind closed doors, Trump signs bill allowing states to strip federal family planning funds from abortion providers ," April 13, Washington Post, " Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding ," Dec.
Email interview with Kinsey Hasstedt, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, Jan 3, As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to defund Planned Parenthood. That has yet to happen. Trump joined other Republicans in opposition to federal funding for the health services provider on the grounds that Planned Parenthood helps some patients obtain abortions. But millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood. Federal funding does not actually fund abortions.
The Hyde Amendment excludes Planned Parenthood and others from using federal dollars to pay for most abortion services, except in instances of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. Abortion opponents argue the government is tacitly supporting abortion by funding non-abortion services.
First, it's important to note that Planned Parenthood is not a line item on the budget, so it can't simply be crossed out. Planned Parenthood gets most of its funding through Medicaid reimbursements for preventive care and some from Title X, a Health and Human Services grant program that funds comprehensive family planning services. Trump's proposed budget , which he sent Congress in May, called for denying funding, whether through Medicaid or Title X, to any group that performs abortions, including Planned Parenthood, even if that money isn't going toward abortions.
The House and Senate versions of the budget don't include that language. But the best shot Trump had at getting rid of the Medicaid reimbursements was through failed health care reform. The GOP health care bill would have effectively blocked Planned Parenthood from securing reimbursements from Medicaid for a year. Lisa Murkowski, R-Ak. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Terms for grants, which have not yet been announced, are expected to set more stringent anti-abortion conditions for the funding. Heading the department is Teresa Manning, is a prominent anti-abortion activist. In , there were 8, safety net health centers in the US that provided subsidized family planning services, like contraception. Planned Parenthood clinics made up 10 percent of those health centers — but they served 36 percent of the women who got contraceptive care from safety net centers.
Planned Parenthood operates many of its clinics in areas where health care access is scarce. About one in six US counties have a Planned Parenthood clinic.
In of those counties, Planned Parenthood serves at least half of safety net family planning clients.
In counties, Planned Parenthood is the only safety net center that offers family planning services. Planned Parenthood has a robust network of providers.
Many safety net clinics are primary care centers that also offer birth control. And primary care clinics are simply less well-equipped than clinics focused on reproductive health care to offer women the full range of contraceptive options. Women just get less health care. In practice, defunding Planned Parenthood takes funding away from its mostly low-income patients — who might be forced to seek care elsewhere if the government stopped subsidizing their visits to Planned Parenthood.
Low-income women will be hit especially hard, but all Planned Parenthood patients may be affected. Reproductive health care is an incredibly basic, essential need, especially for women. Pregnancy is both a major medical event and a major financial one, and the decision of whether and when to give birth or become a parent is one of the most foundational, life-altering choices a person can make.
Sexually transmitted diseases threaten lives and fertility if left undetected or untreated. With insurance? For people who have no income to spare, Medicaid and Title X are the only ways they can afford these very basic health care services.
And Planned Parenthood is usually the best place — or even the only place — they can get those services. But those publicly funded services still helped prevent 1. And the rates of unplanned birth and abortion would have each been 68 percent higher otherwise. Texas is a particularly sobering example. In areas that had been served by Planned Parenthood before defunding, prescriptions for the most effective forms of birth control plummeted by a third, and women on Medicaid had 27 percent more births than normal.
The evidence is clear that the CMP videos prove nothing of the kind , and that they were heavily, deceptively edited. In short, they were nothing more than propaganda. We saw the same pattern in — when false claims that Planned Parenthood was complicit in sex trafficking along with political tensions over abortion coverage in the Affordable Care Act gave so much political fuel to then-Rep.
Not one has produced evidence of widespread wrongdoing, and all have been discredited. Yet still, every time, Republicans in Congress jump at the chance to open an investigation or threaten a shutdown in the aftermath.
Congressional Republicans, it seems, are making a calculated gamble: They are hoping the misleading smear campaigns Planned Parenthood has faced over the years have been effective enough that they can eliminate access to reproductive health services for millions of lower-income people without paying a political price. But anti-abortion activists have one big problem. Wade to be overturned, and the best available data suggests that 25 to 30 percent of women will have an abortion before age For some anti-abortion activists, the solution has been turning Planned Parenthood into a symbol of everything they hate about abortion.
They level accusations that they hope will shock people who support abortion rights in the same way that they themselves are shocked by legal abortion. None of these allegations are remotely true, as every credible investigation has found. Before Mike Pence made the war on Planned Parenthood go mainstream in , he spent every year since trying and failing to pass a different bill: banning all abortion providers from receiving Title X funds, instead of banning Planned Parenthood specifically from receiving all public funds.
Still, even when the laws are worded more generically, the lawmakers often make it very clear who the real target is — because Planned Parenthood is the easiest, most obvious target to attack.
Anti-abortion Republicans act like abortion is so morally toxic that any money flowing anywhere near it becomes tainted. A few Republicans want no part in a messy funding fight.
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