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 already know that, but that doesn't or hasn't stopped politicians and activist continually targeting PP and calling for their closure.

They can call for PP's closure all they want. It will never close because it is primarily funded by NGOs and individual people.

unfounded emotive accusation that they're sterilising children

Um, it's not unfounded. PP has ADMITTED they are giving cross-sex hormones to children. They've admitted it.

I fucking what,now?! Where are you getting this from?

For anyone else still reading, I did not say this. Nor anything like it.

The post that has been deleted said that I would not engage further with this poster, because I suspected they were a troll.

'Well I think given arabella etc claiming there are many "left wing feminists" who actually wouldn't vote democrat because they weren't advocating restricting abortion further, perhaps they thought it too radical

I also never said this or anything like it.

Given there are people who have taken testosterone and gotten pregnant, while there is a risk of fertility damage

Vasectomy is considered sterilisation. Yet women have still gotten pregnant by their vasectomised partner. It doesn't mean vasectomy is just considered 'fertility damage'. There will always be that rare trans man who will conceive while on testosterone, but that doesn't mean it is not sterilisation.

RBG said abortion should be a state's issue.

Are you now suggesting that she was therefore advocating a massive roll back on womens rights?

I said yesterday that I wouldn't engage with you. You've made many posts that are complete fabrications, and invented quotes and attributed them to me.

So just to reiterate, I have nothing further to say to someone who makes stuff up. It's pointless.

and that you're not interested in debating posters who are happy for women's access to abortion to be affected

The problem with that is that not one single poster has said they are happy for women's access to abortion to be affected.

Not that is anyway, as freezing Federal funding does not affect women's access to abortion in the slightest - which you've been repeatedly told, so you're being disingenuous.

Um, no one is 'demonising trans people' you are being disingenuous. At a push you could say we are demonising men/males.

You, however, are demonising womens sex-based rights and needs.

Rewriting people's posts and making false accusations has been a feature of so many accusatory posts on this thread Arabella. It's why most posters ceased engagement as was pointed out upthread by respect:
"If no-one wants to engage with you I suggest that is because you are coming across as snippy, judgemental, arrogant, rude and with some sort of a hidden agenda".
Very tedious.

Coopting feminist language to support a patriarchal ideal of restricting women's reproductive freedoms doesn't make it feminist.

Good thing no one on this thread or even board has done that then, isn't it.

Yes, and the post where I said I wouldn't engage with this poster further has been reported and deleted.

Childish games.

So then you're saying you're happy to take a loss on child safeguarding just so women can get abortions?

Because that is the flipside of your argument.

No one on here has cheered it on or celebrated it.

So your posts are pretty redundant.

It doesn't. The MRA/TRAs on this thread are weaponising it to attack those who believe sterilising and mutilating children are wrong and that womens sex-based rights are important. If it weren't for PP doing 'gender affirming' 'care', I doubt these people would give a stuff about PP losing funding, because they truly don't care about women.

to remove them as an option for abortion provision

Since PP is overwhelmingly funded outside the federal government, PP will never ever cease to exist, so this will never happen. So it's still irrelevant.

No one on this thread is "fueling an agenda that will ultimately work against women". NOT...ONE poster has. Which is why suggestions and you are embarrassing yourselves.

Just who of those posters is that? There are NONE who "don't actually want to defend or protect women's reproductive rights" on this thread or even on this board, you are lying.

You are missing that countless Democrat governments were voted in the do just that. They reneged on their PROMISE.

No one on this thread has done that. Why are you lying and making up things that simply aren't true?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and many, MANY well-respected feminists said it should be a states issue.

That, is the feminist perspective.

Are you truly going to argue, with a straight face, that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was not a feminist? Are you really going to make such a fool of yourself like this?

But they DID vote for it! It was Obama's platform and he WON. He didn't give the voters WHAT THEY VOTED FOR!

NO ONE on this thread has done that, please stop lying.

Are you saying that children's rights not to be sterilised is less of a priority than women's reproductive rights?

posters cheering on PP cuts and closures and legislative restriction on abortion access are.

There are no posters on this thread who are doing that. As another poster said, you are arguing with the wrong crowd or making up outright lies.