Birth Control Mandate Is Unnecessary Because of Planned Parenthood, Which We’ll Also Defund – Mother Jones

The argument of the Trump administration on allowing many employers to refuse to cover control over birth rate, not quite bulletproof.

Yesterday, Voks reported that the administration of Trump Given the wide exception To the Obamacare mandate on the cover of contraceptives, according to the leaked project of the proposed rule. In case of adoption, the rule will allow almost any employer, and not just religious, to remove the coating of control over the birth rate from their insurance plan, if contraception violates religious beliefs or “moral beliefs” of the organizationWide and muddy standardField

But, in a curious turn, part of the excuse for the Trump administration for this movement depends on the existence of hundreds of a clinic to plan parental rights, many of which the White House is actively trying to close “protection”” Planned parenthoodField

How draft text Explains that the administration believes that the past rationale of the mandate on contraceptive Obamacare is not enough. The document lists several reasons why this is so. Here is one of them:

“There are several federal, state and local programs that provide free or subsidized contraceptives for women with low income, including Medicaid (with 90% of the federal match for family planning services), the title X, grants of the medical center and temporary assistance for needy families. According to the Institute of the Institute as a whole, in general, in general, in general, in general, in general, both 28 programs and the 28th program. Contraceptive coating as a matter of state law.

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“The availability of such programs for servicing the most risky women identified MOM [Institute of Medicine, now known as the National Academy of Medicine] Reduces the government’s interest in the use of a mandate for increasing employers. ”

The meaning here is that, since there are already such programs as Medicaid and Title X to help women with low income ensure contraception, the requirement that most employers ensure endless control over the birth rate, and less urgently.

But there are several bright contradictions: in the first, out of 8,409 medical centers that provide planning services Medicaid and Title X, as quoted in the rule, 817 of them They manage the planned parenthood – the group itself, which Congress and the administration are trying to exclude from the use of the title X and the Medicaid funds to provide medical care.

There is Trump Already signed an account In the law, allowing the States to exclude planned parenthood and other suppliers who offer abortions from obtaining financing family planning X – never say that financing of the title X is used exclusively for incorrect services. In addition, there are several more proposals passing through the government, including in the American law on healthcare of the chamber and in the proposal of Trump's budget to hold Medicaid and other federal dollars, including title X, in particular, from the planned parentalism.

The problem with the logic of the White House comes down to this: Being the largest supplier of the federal supplier of the federal title X, in 2015, in 2015, more than 40 percent of women throughout the country, using the funded title X. 1.58 million patientsThe field but if the planned parenthood will no longer be able to receive a single federal dollar to ensure contraception and other assistance to family planning, often repeated goal of the Trump-Nogg administration, these almost 1.6 million low-income patients will suddenly lose their assistance in planning the family. And now their employers may also not cover this assistance.