Trump team to stop family-planning funding as it reviews whether it’s being used for DEI programs

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The Trump administration is planning to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal grants to organizations providing family planning and other reproductive health services, as it reviews whether the funds violate the president’s order to cease all government-backed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work.

A Health and Human Services spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the plan, that the department was reviewing grants to make sure they complied with the crackdown on DEI.

The freeze to the Title X program could impact as much as $120 million worth of grants to a network of roughly 4,000 clinics providing free and discounted pregnancy testing, contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, and evaluations and testing for infertility.

Planned Parenthood, whose affiliates could lose roughly $20 million if the paused grants are ultimately cut, reacted with alarm.

“The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Alex McGill Johnson told the newspaper.

https://www.aol.co.uk/trump-team-stop-family-planning-211853228.html

I think democratic representation is important. Authoritarianism isn't ok just because it happens to be imposing views that someone thinks are feminist, or anti-racist, or anything else.

All political ideas are mediated, even access to abortion as a feminist issue isn't some self-evident principle. Even within feminism, there are, despite what some feminists would like to think, feminists who do not think abortion access is an important feminist principle. And there are actually quite a lot of women, including ones who consider themselves feminists, who don't think that abortion rights should be completely unconstrained. That's not actually a majority position at all - so why should people that think that way get to tell everyone else what is right?

This is the kind of thing that gets the left into trouble again and again and why leftist regimes can be so horrifically authoritarian.

President Trump has goodies in the bag fror women too. Not weird at all!

https://bsky.app/profile/webrant.bsky.social/post/3llcsxkmih22l

I fear you're right.😟

See, before Labour got in there were loads of threads berating women on here for endangering the glorious left utopia Keir Starmer is now gracing us with.

Now we're getting threads berating us for the US presidency, an election women on here have nothing to do with, didn't participate in, and don't influence.

A cynic might think the scolding threads berating us for both UK and US political outcomes are actually mostly created in order to berate us, malign, smear and defame.

It's not like we see these posters talking about how to help US women access abortion, is it? No, just here to throw mud at UK women.

One might suggest there are more productive ways to fight for US women, but hey ho.

The Republican Party is responsible for Trump.
The Maga cult are responsible for Trump.
Trump voters are responsible for Trump.
Trump is responsible for Trump.
Putin is responsible for Trump.

Not me. Not you. Not any British woman who didnt campaign or vote for him.. But some here can't bear criticism of him and his misogynist policies. They can't defend the indefensible so they cast around looking others to blame.

Access to abortion is the opposite of authoritarianism. Access to abortion doesn't force anyone to have an abortion. Restriction others access to abortion because you personally don't agree with Iot, is. Coopting feminist language to support a patriarchal ideal of restricting women's reproductive freedoms doesn't make it feminist.

@Kankangeroo @TooBigForMyBoots
Crikey, are you two still here? What is it that you want from UK women on this site? Can you explain it simply for ordinary women like me, not steeped in feminist or political theory?

Fuck me, nobody on this thread is restricting women's access to abortion.

Well at least you're honest. You'll take a 'win' at the expense of women's rights even when it's enacted by a right wing patrichal agenda coming from women, which is exactly what posters were saying is dangerous on the long term.

What do you mean 'take'? What is it you think we should do? I agree with the pp, please spell this out

It's not really a big ask of a feminists board to not cheer on the right wing attack to abortion access as a win. No one's blaming anyone here for what they do, but if you celebrate it it's certainly a reasonable feminist discourse to ask wtf you're thinking.

I can't speak for @Kankangeroo, but I'm here discussing stuff like you are. MNet is a discussion site after all.😆

It's the posters wording...she'll take this a win

Take WHAT as a win?!

Go tell that to the Democrats who could at any point have made rules around abortion that were sensible and doable.

They've had numerous opportunities and yet, have never done anything about it - because having women vote for them just in case they do - is a carrot that they have dangled for decades.

No one said you were. Again you seem incessant with this mindset you're being blamed in a way that's starting to sound like your projecting. Saying "actually this isn't good for women, feminists should be cautious of this agenda" when posters are cheering on PP to scrapped and demonising them with similar rhetoric to antichoicers isn't saying you personally are restricting access. Unless of course you go on to support said political agenda to be enacted.

Read the quote FFS, her post is right there. It's her own words, I understood what she saidm if you didn't, maybe you can reply and ask her to reword it for you.

Child safeguarding?

Massive projection here.

Away with you and your 'feminist discourse' bollocks. Explain what you want clearly, if you can

Go tell that to the Democrats who could at any point have made rules around abortion that were sensible and doable.

Such as? Are you saying you're in favour of calls for the democrats to expanding beyond Roe v Wade right to an abortion? If so, it's more confusing why you're blaming the democrats for the rights revoking it.

But you are not discussing. You are just banging on and on how we are all doing feminism wrong.

If you think discourse is a big word maybe debating complex issues and ideas isn't for you

No I'm not @withthegreatestrespect. I'm criticising Trump and his administration's policies on a thread titled Trump team to stop family-planning funding as it reviews whether it’s being used for DEI programs.

Ah yes. Here we go. I'm too thick for you and your fancy words. Too thick to understand why some men are are actually women. Love a duck I wish I'd had a fancy educashun