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

You cannot defend women’s reproductive rights if you first cannot accurately define what a woman is.

yet anyone who has posted on this thread advocating women's rights as a key priority have been called a TRA activist, smearers, bots, trolls

well thats not strictly speaking true….

There are lots of posters ‘advocating women's rights as a key priority’ probably all 🤔

It's not about big girl pants, it's about our freedom to post without being threatened. If posters are being threatening here, they're being threatening elsewhere. The more reports, the quicker such posters are dealt with.

I have reported your post and asked Mnet to take a wee look. Threats have no place on this board.😤

Are you going to start opening doors for me too and giving up your seat on the train?😍

@Kankangeroo what would your position be if Trump signed off an EO tomorrow for free reproductive healthcare for all women in the US?

They may make sinister references about access to “data on posting patterns, ISPs and use of VPNs”, but what about the Metadata?

I believe ‘Big girl pants’ are now worn by men. Or recently claimed by a man in court to be at any rate. I’m a bit puzzled as big pants on a man would make them ‘Big man pants’. Mind you, maybe the man had borrowed (I’ll be kind) pants belonging to some big girl.

And yet some posters don't actually want to defend or protect women's reproductive rights

I guess you didn't see the deleted post then

Which women don't want to protect reproductive rights? I haven't seen that. Do you mean the ones who just don't agree with you?

Oh yes, big girl pants are now very much male attire.

I guess the issue the democrats have faced with Roe v Wade is that while many feminists would have supported that, there are too many other votes who would rather support a right wing ban party who would ban abortion than a left wing party going further left and actually being bold on women's rights. As highlighted up thread, apparently the smart sensible thing for the democrats to have done in order to stop Trump getting in would have been to promise to further restrict abortion rights.

There are some very strange, convoluted arguments happening on here, I’m not sure why.

Advocating for restricting reproductive freedom is not to protecting women's reproductive rights. This is not about agreeing with me, it's about that being the definition of women's reproductive rights.

Nope not seen anyone do that. I think you're arguing with the wrong crowd.

Except the ones happy to see women's reproductive rights rolled back by applying further limitations on women accessing abortion. Have you read the thread? Apparently advocating for a woman's right to choose as a decision she makes herself without a legislator deciding what she is allowed is authoritarian against those don't want a woman to be able to choose.

Why do you think this? I don't think this would have got Kamala the win in all honesty.

Perhaps go reread @ArabellaScott and @TempestTost posts? Apparently there's a feminist case for it. What was your interpretation of their support for handing abortion rights over to states or reducing the access limit?

First that would never happen because that's not his party's agenda so I'd take any whiff of him claiming to do something to help women very suspiciously and apply some critical thought.

Why did the Democrats not sort this issue on a federal level when they had the chance?

Okay apply critical thought. But would you support the policy or not?

From a religious right wing party, this is such a ridiculous question it requires the complete change of reality that trump and the republicans have abandoned their whole political and religious agenda and done the biggest u-turn in history. If so, yeah I would. That's not the same as supporting him cutting family planning funding in the real world context of his party's overall agenda to ban abortion and restrict women's access to family planning. Is it possible to go back to talking about the real world instead of fantasy now?

At no time did i say that people haven’t been called bots etc

i just dispute the ‘anyone who has posted on this thread advocating women's rights as a key priority’

virtually all the women on here are advocating womens rights as a key priority