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Title: Obama Pushes Last-Minute Rule FORCING States to Fund Planned Parenthood
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Published: Dec 19, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-12-19 08:16:49 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The latest “achievement” to go down in Barack’s “legacy?” A rule conceived and passed in the eleventh hour which forces states to keep funneling money to abortionists…

The Obama administration has finalized a rule to stop states from withdrawing federal money from Planned Parenthood and other health clinics that provide abortions.

Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds… Republicans in Congress have repeatedly threatened to cut off Planned Parenthood clinics and in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.

The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.

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#16. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0) (Edited)
The latest “achievement” to go down in Barack’s “legacy?” A rule conceived and passed in the eleventh hour which forces states to keep funneling money to abortionists…
The Obama administration has finalized a rule to stop states from withdrawing federal money from Planned Parenthood and other health clinics that provide abortions.
Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds… Republicans in Congress have repeatedly threatened to cut off Planned Parenthood clinics and in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.
The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.
http://louderwithcrowder.com/obama-state-fund-planned-parenthood/

That source references independent.co.uk ... barack-obama-abortion-funding-planned-parenthood ...
The independent.co.uk site reports:

The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.
Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds for services related to contraception, fertility, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and breast and cervical cancer screening — regardless of whether they also perform abortions.
Federal rules already prevent the healthcare provider from spending any of the government funding – around $70m (£59m) – on abortions.
in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.
Mr Trump has previously praised Planned Parenthood, acknowledging that it “helps millions and millions of women” who go to it for health services such as breast cancer screening.

However, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammogram screenings, as many mistakenly presume. It refers its clients elsewhere for those. Reference: Post #1 of 4um Title: The moral terrorism of Planned Parenthood
That being said, the Democrat Party Platform was changed for the 2016 Presidential election to target the Hyde Amendment for repeal, which “prohibits the use of federal funds for any health benefits coverage that includes abortion.” Reference: Rep. Smith: Most Obamacare Plans Violate Hyde Amendment - cnsnews.com November 21, 2014
Clinton campaigned for the Hyde Amendment to be repealed; to use taxpayer funded Medicaid to pay for abortions. This is a 2001 example of US taxpayers being coerced to provide abortion funding internationally too:
This is Google's cache of: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/
human-life-and-dignity/abortion/support-for-the-hyde-smith-motion.cfm.
It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Dec 1, 2016 09:39:41 GMT.
Excerpts:

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Letter to Congress on the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R. 1646)
May 7, 2001
Dear Member of Congress:
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 (H.R. 1646) will soon come to the House floor. I urge you to support Representative Henry Hyde and Chris Smith's motion to strike the Lee amendment from this bill.
The effect of the Hyde/Smith motion will be to retain the "Mexico City" policy reinstated by President Bush. The Lee amendment reverses the policy, by allowing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to receive U.S. funds so long as any harmful "medical" practices they promote cannot be shown to violate the host country's law or U.S. federal law.
Our foreign aid programs should not subsidize organizations that perform and promote abortions in developing nations under the guise of "family planning." Poor women in developing nations need adequate education, food, housing, and medicine for themselves and their children, so they can lead lives of full human dignity. The Mexico City policy prevents the United States from exporting and encouraging a culture of death as a supposed answer to these needs. I urge you to reject the Lee amendment. Instead, our government should respond directly to the real needs of poor women through a comprehensive poverty alleviation program and greatly increased development assistance.

Ironically, the Catholic sector has recently been compounding the econcomic duress of American females and families by clamoring for America's distressed economy to absorb not only multitudes of illegal migrants but waves of other dependents under the misattributed moniker of "refugees". Unemployment, under-employment, insufficient wages, Minimum Wage hikes which increase prices while obliterating middle class workers by withholding comparable Cost of Living increases for them, the Visa importations of foreign laborers into our workforce -- all such conditions (et al.) of Poverty/Impoverishment here are very large factors in American females resorting to abortion because they don't think they can adequately provide for a child financially. Catholic promotions of "humanitarian" foreign influxes are contradicting and undermining their stance against Abortion. Ergo, I'm imploring them, as well as the Pope, to rethink these issues and refrain from inadvertently facilitating the scourge of Abortion so.
Will try to append some more sources when I can about the complexities, nationally and internationally, of this topic's rule maneuver.

GreyLmist posted on 2016-12-22 15:38:03 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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#17. To: All (#16) (Edited)
Prenatal care is reproductive health care. That includes sonograms but Planned Parenthood doesn't really provide those, other than as a preview for the Abortionists to extract fetuses/fetal body parts/organs/tissues most advantageously/marketably for its "procurers" and the like. STD testing, contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy and mammomgrams are categorized as reproductive health care but Planned Parenthood doesn't provide mammograms -- just referrals elsewhere. Elective Abortion except to save the life of the mother is not reproductive health care. This is evidenced but facts like Planned Parenthood and other Abortion "providers" not concerning themselves with assistance for Post-Abortive after-effects to help prevent suicides from remorse. They don't even want to be required to operate in buildings up to code standards. Nor do they want to be required to provide doctors for the procedure with hospital admitting qualifications in case of emergency: Doctors Work to Regroup after Texas Abortion Law Struck Down - NBC News, JUN 27 2016

GreyLmist posted on 2016-12-22 17:41:58 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#19. To: All (#16) (Edited)
the Democrat Party Platform was changed for the 2016 Presidential election to target the Hyde Amendment for repeal, ... Clinton campaigned for the Hyde Amendment to be repealed;

Democrats, especially, have been opposing any State or Federal restrictions at all to Abortion-on-Demand (monetarily or otherwise); even a humane Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act or a late-term/3rd trimester Abortion restriction. They insist on American taxpayer and Medicaid funding -- US foreign aid provisionings, also -- for Abortion-on-Demand centers, here and worldwide -- all the way up to the pregnancy due date and the birth-process.
Democratic Platform Topples [Party] Consensus on Abortion - dailysignal.com July 25, 2016 | [Obamacare] How [Some] Democrats [Informed or Not] Came to [Vote for] Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

One-third of Democrats, or about 23 million, are pro-life, according to Democrats for Life. ... Now, the Democrats’ party platform is calling for repeal of the [Hyde Amendment] measure ... Kristen Day, executive director for Democrats for Life of America, told The Daily Signal ...: “Most Americans don’t want public funding of abortion at home or abroad.”

On December 19, 2016, More Than 100 Members of Congress Sign a Letter Asking Trump to Repeal the Hyde Amendment - nymag.com December 20, 2016
Excerpts:

more than 100 members of Congress signed a letter asking Trump to repeal the Hyde Amendment and to abolish other restrictions on abortion care and coverage proposed in his 2018 budget request.
Trump has also promised to ... sign into [Federal] law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortion after 20 weeks.

politico.com copy of their letter to Trump

How the Democratic platform betrays millions of the party faithful - LA Times
Kristen Day and Charles Camosy July 25, 2016
Excerpts:

The abortion plank in the 2016 Democratic platform effectively marginalizes the voices of 21 million pro-life Democrats.
Most significantly, the platform calls for the repeal of the Hyde and Helms amendments, which prevent taxpayer funds from being used to pay for abortions.
A commitment to religious liberty in the context of abortion, which was included in the 2012 platform, has been removed.
U.S. abortion law (which permits abortion for any reason until viability, about 22 to 23 weeks) already makes many progressive countries in Europe (which set their threshold for abortion at 12 to 13 weeks) look like pro-life radicals.
In the 2008 presidential primary campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton said abortion should be safe, legal and rare. ... Yet her 2016 platform team has approved provisions that make access to abortion crucial to the well-being of every single person on the planet.
The Democratic Party's abortion stances have already caused many to leave the party, and many more will drop out because of the platform wording. The percentage of extreme abortion rights advocates is increasing in the party, but only because the total number of Democrats has shrunk to its lowest level since the Hoover administration.
Abortion is also among the reasons Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives. In the key states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, for example, Democrats held the majority of seats until Republicans were able to associate the Affordable Care Act with “the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.” (In some states, Obamacare covers abortion; no states can use federal subsidies or tax credits to pay for the procedure.)
Sixty-four Democrats voted for the antiabortion Stupak amendment to the Affordable Care Act; 88% of those seats went to Republicans after Democrats were tied to ~~the assertion that~~ Obamacare funded abortion.

Obama Bars States From Denying Federal Money to Planned Parenthood - The New York Times
By JACKIE CALMES DEC. 14, 2016
Excerpts:

the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions. The measure takes effect two days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald J. Trump.
The rule was proposed three months ago, when many Democrats assumed the next president would be Hillary Clinton; she presumably would have promoted the rule’s completion if it were still pending.
The new rule says that states cannot withhold money from potential recipients for any reason unrelated to their ability to provide the family-planning services.
The 30-page rule was posted on Wednesday morning on the website of the Federal Register, the government’s official journal. It will not take effect, however, until Jan. 18, 30 days after the rule appears in the paper version of the Register.

Obama Administration Moves To Protect Planned Parenthood's Federal Funding - npr.org December 14, 2016

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a regulation Wednesday that says states that award federally funded grants for women's health programs can't discriminate against Planned Parenthood. The regulation doesn't name Planned Parenthood, but it was clear the rule was written with the organization in mind.
Planned Parenthood gets more than $500 million a year from the federal government. About 75 percent of that comes from Medicaid, for medical care provided to patients with low incomes.
The new HHS rule reinforces federal law that says the agency cannot discriminate against qualified organizations in granting federal funds.
Still, the rule could be overturned in 2017 when President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Federal lawmakers are allowed to roll back regulations under the Congressional Review Act. Or they could go through a formal rule-making process to reverse Wednesday's action.

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