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19. Working on ending women's choice through executive orders, his cabinet appointments...
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 04:31 AM
Mar 2017

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He has re-implemented the Global Gag Rule aka Mexico City Policy that bars any U.S. funding for foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that use their own, non-U.S. funds to offer abortion services, or even to offer counseling or referrals related to abortion, or political advocacy around the issue of abortion. It’s a cruel, counterproductive policy that has cut off funding to some of the most experienced, effective aid groups in the world. And Trump made it worse. In the past, the Gag Rule has been applied to U.S. family planning funding; Trump’s version, however, expands the restrictions to all global health funding.

Groups working to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, the Zika virus, and other emerging threats are all at risk. Even global nutrition and child survival programs will be faced with the same dilemma family planning providers have always confronted under the Gag Rule. Will they refuse the restrictions and lose their funding? If they do agree to the restrictions, can they even function effectively?


He appointed Tom Price to head the Health and Human Services Dept. As a congressman, he voted multiple times to defund Planned Parenthood. He has voted in favor of so-called “personhood amendments,” which grant rights to fertilized eggs. He has publicly insisted that before the ACA’s birth control benefit, literally not one woman had trouble affording birth control. And he’s an ardent opponent of the ACA more generally.


He has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. During his campaign, Trump explicitly promised to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, and there’s every reason to believe that Gorsuch would vote to do exactly that. He has a troubling history on reproductive rights, including an opinion in the Hobby Lobby case that went even further than the eventual Supreme Court ruling. He has written that it’s reasonable to consider the use of birth control as “wrongful conduct.” ((cuckcoo! cuckcoo!))


the House of Representatives passed H.R. 7, the so-called “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017,” which would essentially end insurance coverage for abortion in the United States. The bill codifies the Hyde Amendment and permanently bans abortion coverage for women on Medicaid, military women, and federal employees. It bans abortion coverage from any plan offered under the ACA exchanges and even penalizes employers who offer abortion coverage in workplace plans.

While H.R. 7 isn't Trump's doing, Trump has pledged to make the so-called Hyde Amendment permanent, and he is virtually certain to sign such legislation.

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More on all of the above:
http://www.populationconnection.org/article/tremendous-trump/

Still more on the Hyde Amendment:
http://www.populationconnection.org/article/hyde-amendment/

He's also in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) which does away with the ACA's free contraceptives mandate. It also defunds Planned Parenthood.

As a candidate, he at one point suggested women should face criminal punishment if they had an abortion.

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He's winning big! leftstreet Mar 2017 #1
He is showing all us what a fool he is..I agree Stuart G Mar 2017 #2
You mean bigly. nt Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #5
Sexist groping pig. lpbk2713 Mar 2017 #3
Thank You for adding that one..excellent addition.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #4
The Muslim ban progree Mar 2017 #6
Yes...thanks.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #7
It just doesn't matter ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #8
Not for people without health insurance...that promise is a "lie" Stuart G Mar 2017 #9
We know that is what he does ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #17
Pathological liar. And anything he picks up from right wing cable TV / wherever he presents as fact progree Mar 2017 #10
I got to say..what you just pointed out...proves he is .."stupid" Stuart G Mar 2017 #11
About #7 panader0 Mar 2017 #12
Zero Sense....that is Trump..He defines zero. Stuart G Mar 2017 #13
Trump University con job -- so typical. And sales people script: take on big credit card debt.. progree Mar 2017 #14
and his hair, which is actually a parasite sucking on his brain-n/t marked50 Mar 2017 #15
That explains a lot. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #20
Yemen raid without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations progree Mar 2017 #16
International Sporting Events, Entertainment, Tourist, Students, Academics..NOT COMING HERE. Tikki Mar 2017 #18
Working on ending women's choice through executive orders, his cabinet appointments... progree Mar 2017 #19
He got rid of the fiduciary rule that requires retirement financial advisors to put their client's progree Mar 2017 #21
How President Trump has already hurt American democracy in just 50 days progree Mar 2017 #22
The sexual assualts list is longer than yours! L. Coyote Mar 2017 #23
I can't believe nobody has mentioned his profiting off of his office. GoCubsGo Mar 2017 #24
Cutting funding of the EPA, cutting funding for global warming research progree Mar 2017 #25
also...cutting funding on Meals on Wheels...not sure how much is cut.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #26
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