Don’t argue with a pro-lifer. Instead, ask them this question first.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SI_8bv3HKtI

 

‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts

'It will mean more women dying'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/trojan-horse-moment-anti-rights-groups-fill-void-us-aid-cuts

 

Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

"These funding cuts have clear and immediate consequences […] women giving birth without skilled care, people living with HIV unable to access testing and treatment to stay alive, and survivors of violence being turned away from the only clinic in their area," said Alvaro Bermejo, director general of IPPF, the world's largest network for sexual and reproductive health…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/16/figures-us-funding-cuts-family-planning-clinics-shut-anti-rights

 

Donald Trump Is Attacking Access to IVF and Backtracking on Campaign Promises to Make Fertility Treatment Free for Everyone | Common Dreams

WASHINGTON - Over the weekend, Donald Trump signaled that he does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) services, backtracking on his campaign promises to make IVF free. One in three Americans has used, or personally knows someone who has used, IVF to try and conceive. Americans across party lines say access to fertility planning like IVF should be easier to access.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised the government "will pay for, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment." He even dubbed himself the "Father of IVF," but now – to no one's surprise – he is backtracking on these promises...
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/icymi-donald-trump-is-attacking-access-to-ivf-and-backtracking-on-campaign-promises-to-make-fertility-treatment-free-for-everyone

Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood | Reuters

Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people...

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/ 

 

Is it safe to have a child? Americans rethink family planning ahead of Trump’s return

"We have two children and I have desperately wanted a third – but now I am fearful of being able to get adequate care if I get pregnant," wrote another woman who lives in Louisiana. "I can't risk leaving my two children behind if [I] die because I can't get adequate care here. It feels like a dystopian novel, and yet here we are." 

These worries are not necessarily new. In 2023, a Pew Research Center surveyfound that 47% of 18- to 49-year-old US adults say they are unlikely to ever have kids – a steep jump from 2018, when 37% said the same. Of the people who are unlikely to have kids, 38% said "concerns about the state of the world" were a major part of their decision-making. Roughly a quarter pointed to fears about the environment....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/family-planning-trump

House appropriations panel clears HHS bill that cuts agency funding

The bill contains numerous policy provisions Democrats decried as poison pills, including eliminating funding for domestic HIV programs, tobacco prevention, teen pregnancy prevention programs and Title X family planning grants. It would also block federal funding for gender-affirming care. 

The bill would cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) injury prevention program and its opioid overdose prevention and surveillance initiative…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4764852-house-appropriations-committee-funding-cut/

U.S. state laws contributing to rises in pregnancy-related deaths - Reuters

State laws restricting access to family planning and abortion are contributing to rising rates of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States, researchers say.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-maternal-mortality/u-s-state-laws-contributing-to-rises-in-pregnancy-related-deaths-idUSKBN1YO2AE

The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion Clinics – Mother Jones

When I walked into the Obria clinic in Whittier, California, one evening in July, a woman in a modest floral-­print dress organizing bundles of diapers in a back room greeted me hopefully. She thought I’d come for a class. Instead, I asked if I had come to the right place for birth control. Furrowing her brow, she walked around a couch and through a cozy waiting room full of baby toys to the front desk. “What sort of services were you looking for?” she inquired. I asked if they dispensed the morning-after pill, the emergency contraception often called “Plan B.” She told me curtly, “We don’t provide that or refer for any birth control here.”....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/the-trump-administration-is-giving-family-planning-funds-to-a-network-of-anti-abortion-clinics-obria/

The Trump Administration Would Like to Talk to You for a Second About Your Cervical Mucus - Mother Jones

Ladies, have you ever wanted to learn the fertile secrets hidden in your cervical mucus? If so, the Trump administration is here to help! The US Department of Health and Human Services has created a webinar entitled "Focusing on Fertility," to introduce you to the world of "fertility awareness," a method of natural family planning...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/the-trump-administration-would-like-to-talk-to-you-for-a-second-about-your-cervical-mucus/

Faith-based health clinics spurn contraceptives under Trump rule - The Hill

The Trump administration's effort to reshape a decades-old, federally funded family planning program has its roots in Southern California, where one faith-based group wants to be the "pro-life" Planned Parenthood...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/454426-faith-based-health-clinics-spurn-contraceptives-under-trump-rule

New federally funded clinics emphasize abstinence, natural family planning - The Washington Post

Obria focuses on a "couple" — as opposed to a woman as an individual — and "the benefits of commitment and marriage."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/07/22/new-federally-funded-clinics-california-emphasize-abstinence-natural-family-planning/

Judge freezes Trump abortion rule - POLITICO

A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration rule that would have overhauled the Title X federal family planning program and cut funding to health providers that offer abortions or abortion referrals....
https://apple.news/AjBO15HnEQ9aNXbiEKwfYLg

New guidelines for family planning centers mandate bad medicine - The Hill

The new guidelines prohibit providers from referring patients considering abortion to facilities that provide that service....
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/436805-new-guidelines-for-family-planning-centers-mandate-bad-medicine

Trump Proposes a New Way Around Birth Control Mandate: Religious Exemptions and Title X - The New York Times

Women who are unable to obtain health insurance coverage for contraceptives through their employers could seek assistance at family planning clinics, the administration says. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/politics/trump-birth-control.html

Trump Adds Another Anti-Science, Anti-Choice Woman to Oversee Critical Health Programs - Slate

Diane Foley said teaching teenagers to use condoms is "sexually harassing." Now she has her hands on crucial family-planning dollars. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/trump-has-put-a-slew-of-anti-science-anti-choice-women-in-charge-of-critical-health-programs.html

Trump’s HHS Installs Fake Clinic Leader to Oversee Family Planning Funds - Rewire.News

Diane Foley once said it could be considered "sexually harassing" to demonstrate in a classroom how to use a condom on a banana.....

https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/30/trumps-hhs-installs-fake-clinic-leader-oversee-family-planning-funds/

Trump’s Family Planning Program Will Prioritize Less Effective Kinds of Birth Control - VICE

Dramatic changes in the guidelines for Title X family planning grants could affect the types of birth control women have access to. ....
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/qvemzx/trump-title-x-changes-family-planning

Trump Administration Pushes Abstinence and “Rhythm Method” Over Contraception – Friendly Atheist

Donald Trump‘s stupidity has real consequences for many Americans — especially women. According to The Daily Beast, a leaked administration “wish list” reveals that the Trump Team wants to slash the budget for family planning and, in its place, promote the archaic “rhythm method.”....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/10/21/trump-administration-pushes-abstinence-and-rhythm-method-over-contraception/

Teen birth rates spiked in Texas after funding for family planning services was reduced by 67% in 2011

The study by Analisa Packham, who received her doctorate in economics from A&M in 2016 and now works at Miami University, claims the reduction of family planning services in Texas has resulted in the closure of 80 clinics and an increase in teen birth rates by 3.4 percent....
http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Teen-birth-rates-spiked-in-Texas-after-Planned-11283376.php