In December 2016, former President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a regulation blocking states from defunding Planned Parenthood from federal Title X family planning funding, effectively creating a backdoor handout for the abortion industry and threatening states with a loss of federal funds.
Last month, with a strong vote of 230-188, the House passed Rep. Diane Black (R-TN)'s joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, H.J. Res. 43, to overrule Obama's harmful rule on Title X. Now the Senate must follow the House's example and pass this resolution, which only needs 51 votes. Then, President Donald Trump can sign the resolution into law, to overturn the regulation and protect the right of states to defund Planned Parenthood.
States should be free to allocate funds in a way that clearly keeps family planning and abortion separate, by not funding organizations that participate in abortion. Many states have already redirected funds away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and have instead offered those funds to public health providers and community health centers which offer a full range of healthcare services, but not abortion. These states realize that when Planned Parenthood or other abortion clinics receive Title X grant funding, it frees up resources for them to spend more on abortion, their main source of non-governmental service income.
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Your Senators need to hear from you to pass the CRA resolution of disapproval to overturn this harmful rule! Urge them to vote FOR Rep. Diane Black (R-TN)'s H.J. Res. 43, which is identical to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)'s S.J. Res 13.
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Thank you for your efforts to end the forced partnership between the taxpayers and Planned Parenthood.
