{"id":179094,"date":"2018-05-19T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/19\/it-was-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T00:49:00","slug":"it-was-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/19\/it-was-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was Inevitable\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is going balls to the wall to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2018\/05\/18\/planned-parenthood-likely-to-lose-millions-under-trump-administrations-new-title-x-family-planning-rules\/\">defund Planned Parenthood and reduce access to birth control services<\/a> by reviving the Reagan gag rule:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Trump administration is proposing to bar clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving federal family-planning funds, a far-reaching move that would deprive Planned Parenthood and other women\u2019s health centers of millions of dollars a year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The proposal would require a \u201cbright line\u201d of physical and financial separation between clinics that receive $260 million annually in federal funding and any organization that provides abortions or referrals to abortion clinics.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The move delivers on a long-held objective of abortion opponents, who are staunch supporters of President Trump. In a statement Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that it \u201cwould ensure that taxpayers do not indirectly fund abortions\u201d and that Trump \u201cis pleased to support\u201d it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president plans to unveil the proposal Tuesday in a speech before the Susan B. Anthony List, a political action committee that opposes abortion, according to two administration officials.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republicans look at the Margaret Atwater&#8217;s book <i>The Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale<\/i>, and they think, &#8220;I gotta get me some of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is going balls to the wall to defund Planned Parenthood and reduce access to birth control services by reviving the Reagan gag rule: The Trump administration is proposing to bar clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving federal family-planning funds, a far-reaching move that would deprive Planned Parenthood and other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[551,573,364,374,437,454],"class_list":["post-179094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}