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.

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I was in a PP waiting room recently with my DD (we were there due to an ectopic miscarriage she'd had).

Nary a trans woman or child in sight. Just a bunch of women seeking critical cancer screens, getting bloods done, etc.

We were grateful my daughter miscarried early enough she wasn't in danger, or we would have been driving five hours north to another state as abortions (even in the case of the mother's life) are mostly illegal or not provided here.

Trump and his rethuglicans do not care about supporting gender critical views, but they will happily use GC arguments as a useful smokescreen while they dismantle all womens rights.

We are in the process of either moving to a blue state, to Canada, or back to the UK, but my son-in-law needs his paperwork first.

Trump and his rethuglicans do not care about supporting gender critical views, but they will happily use GC arguments as a useful smokescreen while they dismantle all womens rights

Yes, exactly
Sorry to hear about your dd's loss

Absolutely. Children would have no real understanding about having children themselves in the future, or the future implication of having that possibility closed to them. I must admit it wasn’t even a thought in my head in my 20’s. Then a realisation about having a family came all of a sudden, when my ducks were in a row.

I was always in the 'never going to have children' mindset. Until in my 30s.