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    Trump privately signs anti-Planned Parenthood law

    Trump privately signs anti-Planned Parenthood law

    By Dan Merica, CNN
    Updated 2:18 PM ET, Thu April 13, 2017

    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans.

    The bill, which the usually camera-friendly President signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from withholding money from facilities that perform abortions, arguing that many of these facilities also provide other family planning and medical services.

    The bulk of federal money Planned Parenthood receives, though, goes toward preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests and other women's health services. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.

    The signing comes weeks after Vice President Mike Pence, a social conservative who regularly touts his anti-abortion stances, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate after two Republicans opposed the measure.

    "(Women's) worst fears are now coming true. We are facing the worst political attack on women's health in a generation as lawmakers have spent the past three months trading away women's health and rights at every turn," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said in a statement.


    Ivanka Trump's influence


    The law once again raises questions about the power Ivanka Trump, the President's daughter and aide, actually wields inside the West Wing. The first daughter met with president of Planned Parenthood shortly after her father was inaugurated in an attempt to better understand the group that is regularly targeted by Republicans. She has also cultivated an image of a moderating force inside the White House.

    The President has even said Ivanka Trump would be his guide on women's health issues.


    "Ivanka is so much into that whole issue of women's health and women," Trump said in a 2015 interview with Fox News. "And she's my guide on that whole subject."


    But the first daughter has been hesitant about publicly speaking about her views on abortion, despite saying she would be an advocate for women's health inside the White House.

    "I don't talk about my politics," she told Boston Public Radio in 2016. "I don't feel like it's my role ... I'm the daughter. I don't think my politics are relevant to the discussion."


    What is clear is that the meeting with Planned Parenthood -- and whatever information Trump took away from it -- did not sway her father's administration, which has since targeted the organization. The Republican health care bill, which was fully backed by the White House, would have defunded Planned Parenthood.


    Democratic organizations blasted the bill on Thursday.


    "Stripping millions of Americans of the critical health care services that Planned Parenthood provides doesn't just hurt women -- it hurts entire families and their economic security," said Stephanie Schriock, the head of EMILY's List, a Democratic political action committee. "This is just one more example of Donald Trump's White House and this Republican Congress taking every single opportunity to chip away at women's rights, and we won't stand for it."

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    Are they saying the government actually gives monies to Planned Parenthood - not just that Medicaid or other government healthcare plans pay for their services?

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    How Federal Funding Works at Planned Parenthood

    By Miriam Berg | Jan. 5, 2017, 9 p.m. | Comments
    Category: Congress, Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, Title X

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    Does the Government Fund Planned Parenthood?

    With all the talk in Washington these days about “defunding Planned Parenthood,” you might think there’s a specific, Planned Parenthood line item in the federal budget that Congress and the president can just zero out.

    Turns out, nothing could be further from the truth.


    Most of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding is from Medicaid reimbursements for preventive care, and some is from Title X. There’s no keep-Planned-Parenthood-running part of the federal budget.


    Here’s where “defunding” comes in:

    At least 60% of Planned Parenthood patients rely on public health programs like Medicaid and Title X for their preventive and primary care. So, when you hear extreme politicians talking about “defunding” Planned Parenthood, they really mean blocking patients who rely on public health care programs from getting their care at Planned Parenthood centers — patients like Casey.
    Legislation that “defunds” Planned Parenthood immediately blocks patients like Casey from accessing care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

    And that would have devastating consequences for millions of people — particularly people of color, people with low incomes, and people in rural communities who already face barriers to care.


    Say It With Us Now: Most Federal Funding is Through Medicaid Reimbursements for Preventive Health Care


    To really understand what federal funds pay for at Planned Parenthood, you first need to know that federal tax dollars don’t pay for abortions. A decades-old, unfair law already prohibits that (except in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is in danger).

    Again, most federal funding comes to Planned Parenthood in the form of reimbursements through Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance plan for people with low incomes.


    Just like other kinds of health insurance, Medicaid reimburses Planned Parenthood’s doctors and nurses for the preventive medical services they provide, including life-saving cancer screenings, HIV testing, and birth control. There are no special favors here.


    The majority of federal funds come through Planned Parenthood health centers via reimbursements for the medical services that they provide to patients who either have Medicaid coverage or qualify for other publicly funded health care programs (like Title X).


    Planned Parenthood’s health centers also get federal funds for delivering vital services through Title X, the nation’s family planning program — funds that can only be used to support family planning health care.


    Planned Parenthood serves 1.5 million of Title X’s over 4 million patients each year
    , helping people who often don’t have access to family planning care anywhere else. Without Planned Parenthood, many of these patients wouldn’t get the health care they need to take control of their lives.


    In talking about funding, it’s important to note that:


    • The government saves $7 in Medicaid-related costs for every dollar invested in publicly funded family planning programs like Title X.
    • Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office projects that barring Planned Parenthood health centers from being reimbursed through Medicaid would result in a net cost of $130 million to taxpayers over 10 years due to an increase in unintended pregnancies without the high-quality contraceptive care that Planned Parenthood provides.
    • It is estimated that Planned Parenthood health centers prevent at least 579,000 unintended pregnancies a year.


    Got That Now?


    Just to reiterate: The federal government doesn’t cut a blank check to Planned Parenthood.

    The public funds that Planned Parenthood’s health centers receive are mostly reimbursements for preventive services, which often aren’t available anywhere else. Without Planned Parenthood, there just aren’t enough health care providers to deliver the millions of medical services it provides each year.


    No wonder poll after poll shows Americans strongly support Planned Parenthood.


    And that’s not just Blue America — it cuts across Republican and independent voters too. In fact, nearly half of Trump’s own supporters don’t want to see Planned Parenthood “defunded” either.

    Learn how “defunding” will hurt those most in need and lead to a national health disaster.

    Impact Shutting Down Planned Parenthood


    If politicians out to “defund” Planned Parenthood have their way, they will block millions of patients who depend on Medicaid and other public health care programs from accessing care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

    And we all know their ultimate goal: To shut down all Planned Parenthood health centers.
    If that happens, it would cause a national health care disaster. Many Planned Parenthood patients — nearly half of whom are people of color, and many of whom live in rural areas — would have nowhere else to turn for health care.


    We won’t let that happen. Are you ready to fight back and stand with Planned Parenthood?

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