Video: Trump Administration De-Funding Abortionists
The Trump Administration recently rolled out new rules that will take Title X federal funding away from abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.
Watch this video to learn more.
New Federal Rule Could Cost Planned Parenthood $60 Million
This week the Trump Administration announced it will soon enforce a new federal rule that could cost Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, an estimated $60 million in taxpayer funding.
The administration’s new Protect Life Rule changes federal policies for organizations that receive public funding for family planning services under Title X .
For more than 20 years, abortionist like Planned Parenthood have been able to receive this federal funding, provided that they did not use the money to perform abortions.
However, we have long argued that giving groups like Planned Parenthood any federal funding at all helps subsidize their abortion business.
The Trump Administration’s new rules roll back nearly three decades of bad policy when it comes to publicly funding abortion.
The new rules will require “clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning,” and they will eliminate policies the Clinton Administration instituted in the 1990s that required groups that receive Title X funds to provide abortion referrals.
Requiring groups to keep abortion and family planning services physically and financially separate is going to make it very difficult, if not impossible, for Planned Parenthood and similar organizations to receive taxpayer funding.
As Family Research Council and others have noted, the Protect Life Rule is similar to good, pro-life policies President Ronald Reagan’s administration implemented in the 1980s to help keep abortionists off the public dole. Those good policies were upended by the Clinton Administration, and no president since has bothered to put the policies back the way they were 30 years ago.
Read more about these rules from Family Research Council.
Most Americans Want Abortion Outlawed or Restricted: Gallup Poll
In June Gallup released its annual poll on Americans’ views on abortion.
Among other things, the poll found:
- Nearly half of all Americans identify as “pro-life”
- Nearly 1 in 3 (29%) won’t consider a candidate they disagree with on abortion
- Altogether, 60% of Americans believe abortion should be either illegal or legal only under a few circumstances
In May Gallup released a report that showed half of all Americans surveyed believe abortion is morally wrong.
All of this is really good news — and it tracks with other polls we’ve seen in recent years.
Abortion in Arkansas is at a 42-year low, and more than ever the public believes abortion ought to be either outlawed or restricted to a handful of circumstances.
We are winning the fight to protect innocent human life.