“This is the largest attack on contraception in a generation.'
by Planned Parenthood last Friday to block the rule, and the nation’s largest Title X provider officially announced its withdrawal from the program in a press call Monday afternoon.
“Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X,”acting Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson on the call. “We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients. Our patients deserve to make their own health care decisions, not to be forced to have Donald Trump or Mike Pence make those decisions for them.
The Title X network in Maine includes 18 MFP clinics, in addition to approximately 30 other clinics, including four Planned Parenthood of Northern New England clinics, school clinics, and other qualified health care providers, according to McDonough.in their lawsuit against HHS over the rule to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, hoping to overturn a lower court decision to lift a stay on the new rule.
While this week represents a political flashpoint for birth control access, NFPRHA’s Marcella said it will take time to see the true effects of the fallout over the gag rule. “I think people will expect that by tomorrow we will see wholesale changes, and I think it’s going to be much more nefarious than that,” she said.
“This is the largest attack on contraception in a generation,” said Marcella. “People have been desensitized, calling this political, because for decades there have been fights related specifically to abortion, and whether or not there should be federal funds used for abortion, and what is happening is this administration is capitalizing on that desensitization to attack contraception as well. The conflation of abortion, family planning, and contraception is complete.
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