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.
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.
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.
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
Sources:
1. Title X, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, accessed July 26, 2019
2. Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics, The Hill, March 29, 2019
3. Ibid.
4. Common Fake Women's Health Center Misinformation, NARAL Pro-Choice America, accessed July 26, 2019
5. Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics, The Hill, March 29, 2019
6. Common Fake Women's Health Center Misinformation, NARAL Pro-Choice America, accessed July 26, 2019
7. New federally funded clinics emphasize abstinence, natural family planning, The Washington Post, July 22, 2019
8. Ibid.
9. Why Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers Not Illegal?, Slate, June 17, 2015  |
