Sunday, July 16, 2017

Trump administration secretly cuts $213 million in funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs

Rss@dailykos.com (kelly Macias) · Friday, July 14, 2017, 6:04 pm

Just in case you were wondering, the Trump administration has zero plans to support programs that help teens make healthy choices and not get pregnant. It’s already clear that Trump and his Republican buddies are doing everything humanly possible to deny access to abortions and contraception to women around the country—and in Texas, this has caused the abortion rate among teens to increase. But now, in sinking to a new and despicable low, they’ve gone and cut $213.6 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs and research.

The Trump administration has quietly axed $213.6 million in teen pregnancy prevention programs and research at more than 80 institutions around the country, including Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University.

The decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will end five-year grants awarded by the Obama administration that were designed to find scientifically valid ways to help teenagers make healthy decisions that avoid unwanted pregnancies.

This is the act of a bunch of vulgar morons with retrograde views.Thanks to them, abstinence-only education is now official U.S. government policy. Folks, we have officially regressed back to 1957.

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