{"id":1048716,"date":"2024-10-09T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048716"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:52:19","slug":"planned-parenthood-on-the-chopping-block-trump-and-vance-would-defund-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cancer-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-on-the-chopping-block-trump-and-vance-would-defund-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cancer-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNED PARENTHOOD ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK: Trump and Vance Would Defund Hundreds of Thousands of Cancer Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%F0%9F%9A%A8-trump-vance-ticket-we-would-defund-planned-parenthood\/\"><em>Reminder<\/em><\/a><em>: JD Vance made clear a Trump-Vance administration would defund reproductive health care services if given the chance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As the Trump-Vance ticket seeks to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1842715097627500724\"><em>defund<\/em><\/a><em> Planned Parenthood, which provides about 450,000 cancer screenings annually, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor hundreds of thousands of Americans, Planned Parenthood\u2019s cancer screenings are potentially life saving \u2014 but Donald Trump and JD Vance would put that all at risk if they get a chance to implement their Project 2025 plans to defund Planned Parenthood and rip away access to health care. The Trump-Vance agenda is dangerous and will raise health care costs for millions of women who rely on free and low cost health care services. The 3 in 4 Americans who support Planned Parenthood will make clear in November that they won\u2019t stand for this extreme assault on our health care and our reproductive freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3 in 4 Americans support Planned Parenthood, which provides cancer screenings and prevention services for hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/88\/21\/8821bdb3-0b08-4752-a963-fe90ff02f970\/pp_public_poll_memo_brand.pdf\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>: <strong>\u201cMore than three-fourths of Americans (77%) have a favorable view of Planned Parenthood,<\/strong> with the strongest support among women, adults under 35, and Black, Latino, and AAPI communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/ce\/f6\/cef6efdb-919a-4211-bb5c-ce0d61fda7f5\/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>: \u201cBreakdown of Affiliate Medical Services\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cCancer Screenings &amp; Prevention: 464,021 [over the year]\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donald Trump and JD Vance\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would defund Planned Parenthood and rip away reproductive health care services \u2014 something Vance himself confirmed last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1842715097627500724\">Vance<\/a>: \u201cOn the question of defunding Planned Parenthood [\u2026] our view is we don&#8217;t think that taxpayers should fund late term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025, page 471<\/a>: <strong>\u201cProhibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds\u2026 Policymakers should end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025, page 472<\/a>: <strong>\u201cHHS should\u2026 1) Issue guidance reemphasizing that states are free to defund Planned Parenthood in their state Medicaid plans. <\/strong>2) Propose rulemaking to interpret the Medicaid statute to disqualify providers of elective abortion from the Medicaid program. <strong>Congress should pass the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act, which would accomplish the goal of defunding abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025, page 491<\/a>: \u201cCongress should complement these efforts by passing legislation such as the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would prohibit family planning grants from going to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nearly <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/womens-health-policy\/issue-brief\/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration\/#:~:text=The%20federal%20Title%20X%20program,of%20approximately%204%2C000%20clinic%20sites.\"><strong>four million<\/strong><\/a><strong> Americans access health care through Title X clinics. The Trump administration\u2019s \u201cgag rule\u201d defunded hundreds of these clinics, disqualifying providers like Planned Parenthood from providing care under the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/grant-programs\/title-x-service-grants\/about-title-x-service-grants\">HHS<\/a>: \u201cTitle X services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of one\u2019s ability to pay. <strong>For many clients, Title X clinics are their only ongoing source of health care and health education.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTitle X projects may also provide other reproductive health and related preventive health services that are considered beneficial to reproductive health <\/strong>such as HPV vaccination, provision of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), <strong>breast and cervical cancer screening, <\/strong>and screening for obesity, smoking, drug and alcohol use, mental health, and intimate partner violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/19\/planned-parenthood-trump-administration-1468561\">Politico<\/a>: <strong>\u201cPlanned Parenthood serves about 1.6 million of the roughly 4 million low-income women who depend on Title X clinics for free and subsidized care.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2020\/02\/trump-administrations-domestic-gag-rule-has-slashed-title-x-networks-capacity-half\">Guttmacher Institute<\/a>: <strong>\u201c[T]he Trump administration\u2019s domestic \u2018gag rule\u2019 has slashed the Title X national family planning network\u2019s patient capacity in half, jeopardizing care for 1.6 million female patients nationwide [\u2026]<\/strong> roughly one in every four Title X service sites left the network in 2019 because of the domestic gag rule, shorthand for restrictive regulations that prohibit\u2014among other things\u2014referrals for abortion care. <strong>In 2019, an estimated 981 U.S. clinics receiving Title X funding\u2014approximately one-quarter of all sites that received Title X funding as of June 2019\u2014likely left the Title X network because of the gag rule [&#8230;]\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/womens-health-policy\/issue-brief\/harris-v-trump-records-and-positions-on-reproductive-health\/\">KFF<\/a>: \u201cWhile in office, Trump\u2019s Administration rewrote the rules governing the federal Title X program, the federal family planning program that supports contraceptive access for people with lower incomes. Title X funds have never been used to pay for abortion services, but <strong>Trump\u2019s Administration rewrote the regulations to disqualify family planning clinics from participating in the program if they also offered abortion services (with separate funding) [&#8230;] These changes resulted in a reduction of about 1,300 of the 4,000 sites participating in the network of clinics receiving federal support from the Title X program.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REALITY CHECK: Attacks on reproductive freedoms, like Trump and Vance\u2019s anti-choice Project 2025 agenda to defund Planned Parenthood, are wildly unpopular.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/new-data-nearly-8-in-10-americans-view-planned-parenthood-favorably-positive-impact-on-local-communities\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThree-fourths of Americans (74%) would be concerned about the loss of affordable reproductive health and preventive care services if Planned Parenthood no longer existed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/06\/18\/poll-abortion-support-dobbs-overturned-roe-v-wade\/70320647007\/\">USA Today<\/a>:<strong> \u201cAmericans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide.<\/strong> By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/13\/abortion-2024-election-poll\">Axios<\/a>: <strong>\u201cRecord share of U.S. voters back abortion rights and will vote on it: Gallup\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/abortion-rights-won-every-election-roe-v-wade-overturned-rcna99031\">NBC News<\/a>: <strong>\u201cAbortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/03\/29\/abortion-pill-supreme-court-case-poll\">Axios<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s widespread support for letting women obtain drugs for medication abortion from their doctor or a clinic, with 72% supporting \u2014 including half of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Trump-Vance ticket and their Project 2025 allies are pushing a dangerous Project 2025 agenda that would ban abortion nationwide, threaten access to IVF and contraception, and rip away reproductive freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-16-week-national-abortion-ban-1234970119\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DNCWarRoom\/status\/1672786470049046528\">Trump<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThere of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it\u2019s very important.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/17\/politics\/kfile-jd-vance-abortion-comments\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: <strong>\u201cJD Vance said in 2022 he \u2018would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate<strong> JD Vance said he \u2018certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019 and was \u2018sympathetic\u2019 to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/07\/17\/jd-vance-abortion-comstock-vice-presidential-nominee\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:<strong> \u201c<\/strong><strong>Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/178848\/ban-abortion-trump-lgbtq-project-2025\">New Republic<\/a>: <strong>\u201cOn January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation.<\/strong> This is not a secret plan\u2014far from it. It\u2019s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/01\/anti-abortion-movement-ivf-war-00149766\">Politico<\/a>: <strong>\u201cAnti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They\u2019re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSince the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/heritage-foundation\/heritage-foundation-quietly-released-draconian-new-ivf-policy-recommendations\">Media Matters<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThe Heritage Foundation quietly released draconian new IVF policy recommendations for the next GOP president\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cHeritage has been a staunchly anti-IVF voice, supporting Alabama\u2019s controversial Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos cultivated through IVF treatment have the same rights as living children, and that a person can be held liable for destroying embryos.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/07\/republican-national-convention-party-platform-fetuses-abortion-ivf\/\">The 19th<\/a>: \u201cRNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFetal personhood is widely seen as being in conflict with in vitro fertilization (IVF), which creates embryos outside of the uterus that are later implanted. Fetal personhood bestows the same rights currently reserved for people to embryos from the moment of fertilization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reproductivefreedomforall.org\/resources\/gutting-abortion-access-under-project-2025\/\">Reproductive Freedom for All<\/a>: \u201cThe extensive mandate calls to gut reproductive freedom, including effectively banning medication abortion, ending access to emergency abortion care, attacking contraception, deploying fetal personhood, and undermining IVF in federal policy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProject 2025 includes personhood language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception\u2014which could have devastating impacts should it be put into law. This so-called \u201cpersonhood\u201d language could ban not only abortion but also some forms of birth control and assisted fertility treatments like IVF.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/project-2025-trump-hhs\/\">The Nation<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025 Has Bad Medicine for HHS\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd by declaring that life begins at conception, <strong>his manifesto appears to commit HHS to finding ways to outlaw IVF<\/strong>, which relies on generating multiple embryos, most of which are not implanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/maga-plan-attack-birth-control-surveil-women-ban-abortion-pill-1234934807\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeartlandSignal\/status\/1811494802665394616\">Vance<\/a>: <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/11\/13\/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election\">Axios<\/a>: <strong>\u201c[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminder: JD Vance made clear a Trump-Vance administration would defund reproductive health care services if given the chance As the Trump-Vance ticket seeks to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides about 450,000 cancer screenings annually, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: \u201cFor hundreds of thousands of Americans, Planned Parenthood\u2019s cancer screenings are potentially life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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