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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,033 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2019, 09:03 PM Mar 2019

Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics

The Trump administration announced Friday it would award a $1.7 million family planning grant to a chain of crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion and don’t offer contraceptives, while at the same time cutting funds to some Planned Parenthood affiliates.

The Obria group, which considers itself the “pro-life” version of Planned Parenthood, says it will receive a grant to provide family planning services in California.

The administration’s decision to fund Obria is a signal of its desire to shift family planning funds toward faith-based groups that oppose abortion and away from groups like Planned Parenthood.

“Many women want the opportunity to visit a professional, comprehensive health care facility — not an abortion clinic — for their health care needs; this grant will give them that choice,” Kathleen Eaton Bravo, founder and CEO of The Obria Group, said in a statement.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/436526-trump-administration-awards-17-million-family-planning-grant-to-anti

What's next? Money to teach abstinence to the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was busted?

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Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP

EVIL through and through bluestarone Mar 2019 #1

A family planning grant to a place that doesn't offer contraception...? Freddie Mar 2019 #2

They want everyone to use Ilsa Mar 2019 #5

Or that you want a method that reliably works! Freddie Mar 2019 #7

Help me understand family planning without Phoenix61 Mar 2019 #3

Fuck them! smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #4

Trump is giving money to religious groups, Ilsa Mar 2019 #6

Dems MUST win back the White House and reverse this nonsense Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #8

bluestarone

(16,976 posts)

1. EVIL through and through

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2019, 09:13 PM

Mar 2019

Every fucking day something with this fucker and his CRONIES!!

Freddie

(9,267 posts)

2. A family planning grant to a place that doesn't offer contraception...?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2019, 10:11 PM

Mar 2019

Exactly what do they offer? Advice on holding an aspirin between your knees?

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

5. They want everyone to use

Reply to Freddie (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 29, 2019, 11:20 PM

Mar 2019

NFP, Natural Family Planning. Nevermind that sometimes spouses travel for work and may not see each for 1-2 weeks. Or that a woman's body temp may vascillate for reasons other than ovulation. Or that what she thinks is an ovulatory discharge is actually an infection. Or that a woman's cycle is irregular, making reading the signs more difficult.

NFP doesn't work for everyone.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)

7. Or that you want a method that reliably works!

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 03:51 AM

Mar 2019

NFP presumes you’re “open to new life” if it doesn’t. And what if you absolutely DO NOT want a pregnancy? A dear relative has a heart condition and was told by several cardiologists that pregnancy and childbirth would be fatal to her. On the advice of physicians, she had a tubal. I suppose the NFP folks would prefer she died if/when the method failed.