![]() The new Trump regulations would also force medical providers in the Title X program to direct women toward continuing a pregnancy to term, regardless of the patient’s wishes, in violation of a legal requirement that all counseling be non-directive. ![]() None of this is necessary to keep Title X funds from paying for abortion care Title X sites know how to track their funds and comply with the law and have been doing it for years. That means separate buildings, more staff, redundant computer and billing and filing systems, etc. The new regulations require clinics that provide the full range of reproductive health care – family planning and abortion – to create complete physical and financial separation between abortion and family planning services. The law creating the program specified that the funds could not be used to pay for abortion care, but sites that provide both family planning and abortion have always been able to receive Title X funds, as long as they only use them for contraception and not abortion. ![]() The program funds clinics and health departments around the country so they can provide family planning services to people with lower incomes. Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Ninth Circuits in multiple challenges to the Trump administration’s domestic “gag rule.” The cases concern a set of regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that change the rules in the federal family planning program known as Title X. In July and August 2019, NCLR and thirteen other national LGBTQ organizations filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |