The Trump administration is about to literally BAN the word abortion from the doctor's office.

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Every day, they dig further down to a new low....

The Trump administration is about to literally BAN the word abortion from the doctor's office. Yes, you read that right.
For clinics and hospitals that accept dollars from the Title X program--the nation's program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care--doctors, nurses, and other health care providers would be banned from providing, counseling on, or referring any patient for an abortion. Even if it was needed to protect a woman's health or save her life. Even if she asked.¹
It gets worse. This doesn't just impact women who need abortion. If clinics refuse to comply with this proposed rule, the government will stop reimbursing them for treating patients who cannot pay. Eventually, that could shutter a clinic, ending services like birth control, cervical and breast cancer screening, and HIV testing for the entire community. This could be devastating--more than half of Planned Parenthood clinics are in rural or medically underserved areas where there are few or no other options for essential women's health care.

Why would any woman vote for this?????

 

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Forgot the link.

https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/tell-hhs-reject-abortion-gag-rule/

A more nuanced look at the actual law:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ht-mean/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c274ed3457d2

Page 119 states that “A Title X project may not perform, promote, refer for, or support, abortion as a method of family planning, nor take any other affirmative action to assist a patient to secure such an abortion.”

The one exception is if a woman “clearly states that she has already decided to have an abortion.” In this situation, a doctor or other provider should provide “a list of licensed, qualified comprehensive health service providers (some, but not all, of which also provide abortion, in addition to comprehensive prenatal care.)”

So is it or isn't it a “gag rule”?

HHS's view is that there is a difference between counseling and referrals. Counseling — as long as it is not “directive” or expressing an opinion — is allowed. It stated that referrals for abortion are, “by definition, directive” and, therefore, not allowed under its new interpretation of a 2000 regulation that pregnancy counseling be nondirective.

It's the equivalent of being told you can't actively suggest vaccines to a parent for their children, unless they clearly indicate they have already decided to vaccinate, in which case you have to show them where to go.