The nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, has announced that it will withdraw from the Title X federal family planning program next Monday unless a court intervenes.
Lawyers representing the organization have pleaded with the U.S. Court of Appeals for a stay of a rule passed by the Department of Health and Human Services which banned all organizations that receive money via the federal funding program from performing abortions or referring patients for the procedure.
Title X provides birth control and contraceptives to those of low-income and has been praised by pro-lifers for not allowing federal money to be used in the termination of young lives.
“All Planned Parenthood direct grantees will be forced to withdraw from the Title X program by the close of business on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019,” Planned Parenthood’s letter reads. “Moreover, Planned Parenthood subgrantees are being similarly forced to withdraw from the program as their grantees face the same compliance deadline.”
The abortion business, which carries out over 300,000 terminations a year, insisted that the Title X restrictions on abortion amount to a “gag rule.”
Others have pointed out that Planned Parenthood’s decision is a clear-cut sign that they are more devoted to abortions than they are to a more rounded form of female healthcare.
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