NARAL Pro-Choice America
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John,
Title X funds are supposed to support contraceptive services and
preventive care from reputable medical professionals.^1
But now the Trump administration has not only used its gag rule to deny
Title X funds to healthcare providers who perform or refer patients for
abortion — it has diverted Title X funding to fake women's health centers,
which use lies and deception to mislead women about their reproductive
healthcare options.^2
NARAL has spent years fighting anti-choice fake women's health centers
(also duplicitously called crisis pregnancy centers). These anti-choice
fake clinics do not provide the range of care that Title X was designed to
— and funneling our tax dollars into these politically motivated
anti-choice organizations is a disgrace.
[ [link removed] ]Will you donate $15 to help stop Title X dollars from
funding fake health clinics?
Recently, the Trump administration gave $1.7 million in family-planning
funds to the Obria Group, an organization that runs a chain of fake
women's health centers throughout California.^3 Not only do these
anti-choice clinics not offer birth control, abortion, or abortion
referrals — they often uses lies and deception to deny women access to
essential healthcare information.^4
They don't even offer hormonal birth control, and have been known to tell
women that "condoms don't work"!^5,6
In fact, the Obria mission explicitly states it believes in
abstinence-only sex education and "natural" family planning — and then
only for married couples, not women as individuals.^7
In other words, Obria uses junk science to deny people the comprehensive
information they deserve.
And it gets worse: Obria clinics offer "abortion pill reversal," a
potentially dangerous dose of hormone medication not supported by research
or approved by the FDA.^8
Now that Obria has opened the door to giving our tax dollars to fake
women's health centers, it's only a matter of time before the 2,700 other
fake clinics operating across the country try to take Title X funding for
themselves.
[ [link removed] ]Will you donate $15 to help stop Trump's gag rule and stop
Title X dollars from going to anti-abortion fake clinics?
Fake women's health centers feed women harmful lies. They tell women that
birth control doesn't work. They scare women by saying abortion causes
cancer. They shame women into continuing unwanted pregnancies.^9
And the Trump administration is diverting to them money meant to give
lifesaving services to low-income women.
NARAL Pro-Choice America is fighting back against Trump's misuse of Title
X family-planning funds. We're pressuring Congress to overturn Trump's
family-planning gag rule, and we're calling out the legislators who don't
stand with us.
[ [link removed] ]Will you donate $15 to help stop Trump's gag rule and stop
Title X dollars from going to anti-abortion fake clinics?
Thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom,
Ilyse Hogue
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
[ [link removed] ]DONATE
Sources:
1. [ [link removed] ]Title X, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association,
accessed July 26, 2019
2. [ [link removed] ]Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to
anti-abortion clinics, The Hill, March 29, 2019
3. Ibid.
4. [ [link removed] ]Common Fake Women's Health Center Misinformation, NARAL Pro-Choice
America, accessed July 26, 2019
5. [ [link removed] ]Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to
anti-abortion clinics, The Hill, March 29, 2019
6. [ [link removed] ]Common Fake Women's Health Center Misinformation, NARAL Pro-Choice
America, accessed July 26, 2019
7. [ [link removed] ]New federally funded clinics emphasize abstinence, natural family
planning, The Washington Post, July 22, 2019
8. Ibid.
9. [ [link removed] ]Why Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers Not Illegal?, Slate, June 17, 2015
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