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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:02 PM Mar 2019

California files suit to block Trump administration's abortion 'gag rule' in family planning program

Source: The Washington Post

State attorney general calls rule an ’extraordinary overreach’ by U.S. Department of Health

By Ariana Eunjung Cha March 4 at 1:51 PM

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) brought the first major lawsuit Monday to block changes to the Title X family planning program that would shift tens of millions of dollars from abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood toward faith-based pregnancy clinics.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, seeks a court injunction to stop the rule from taking effect. It’s the first of what is expected to be a flurry of challenges to the rule that would affect more than 4 million low-income women who get services ranging from cancer screenings to pregnancy tests to birth control through the Department of Health and Human Services program.

The rule imposes what administration officials have referred to as a “bright line” of physical and financial separation between the provision of family planning and abortion services, effectively requiring Planned Parenthood to drastically alter its operations, or else cease to receive an estimated $60 million in annual funding.

Opponents have called it a “gag” rule that compromises medical ethics and endangers the lives of patients because it explicitly bars doctors, nurses or other care personnel from referring a woman for an abortion.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/03/04/california-files-suit-block-trump-administrations-abortion-gag-rule-family-planning-program/

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California files suit to block Trump administration's abortion 'gag rule' in family planning program (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2019 OP

New rule: All GOPee officials should adopt at least one unwanted child sandensea Mar 2019 #1

It also is counter to the White House stance regarding universities that accept federal money being cstanleytech Mar 2019 #2

Trump's government is endorsing religious taboos procon Mar 2019 #3

21 states to file suit to block Trump administration's abortion 'gag rule' in family planning progra Gothmog Mar 2019 #4

"The Trump-Pence administration has doubled down on its attacks on women's health," Becerra said. riversedge Mar 2019 #5

sandensea

(21,639 posts)

1. New rule: All GOPee officials should adopt at least one unwanted child

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:09 PM

Mar 2019

And of color and/or with a disability.

No healthy towheads for you.

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

2. It also is counter to the White House stance regarding universities that accept federal money being

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:14 PM

Mar 2019

forced to "allow" speech by those it might not otherwise support.

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Trump's government is endorsing religious taboos

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:30 PM

Mar 2019

over science. What next; Chicken feathers and incense, ritual cleansing and repentance in the wimmins hut every month? The big payoff is forced pregnancy where the field marshalls on the rabid right declare the ultimate victory in the War on Women and relegate us all to the non-human status of "host bodies" for male sperm.

Gothmog

(145,313 posts)

4. 21 states to file suit to block Trump administration's abortion 'gag rule' in family planning progra

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 08:04 PM

Mar 2019

Link to tweet

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

5. "The Trump-Pence administration has doubled down on its attacks on women's health," Becerra said.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:21 AM

Mar 2019

California sues Trump administration over abortion rule; 20 states to follow

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-sues-trump-administration-over-abortion-rule-20-states-to-follow/

March 5, 2019 / 8:20 AM / AP
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday that the state filed its own federal lawsuit in San Francisco that aims to block a new family planning rule from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. Opponents of the rule say it would shift millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood to faith-based family planning organizations.

Twenty states and Washington, D.C., said they would sue separately Tuesday. The states are: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Washington's Democratic attorney general also previously said the state would challenge the rule

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Planned Parenthood and other groups representing the clinics say the physical separation of facilities would be costly and all but impossible to fulfill. Supporters of the rule, such as Californians for Life, expect funding for faith-based family planning organizations to increase.

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"The Trump-Pence administration has doubled down on its attacks on women's health," Becerra said.

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