WASHINGTON DC (February 22, 2019) — Earlier today, the Trump Administration issued a rule barring Title X Clinics that provide abortion or abortion referral services from receiving critical healthcare funding through the Title X program. The move is expected to direct money away from comprehensive reproductive healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood, that provide essential healthcare access to low-income people, and towards fake women’s health centers that coerce, manipulate and actively lie to women about their reproductive options.
In reaction to the announcement, Shaunna Thomas, co-founder and executive director of UltraViolet, a leading national women’s organization, issued the following statement:
“The Trump Administration's announcement of a domestic gag order is a broadside attack on the reproductive rights of low-income women and women of color. This underhanded attempt to de-fund Planned Parenthood and enrich fake women’s health centers is shameful. Let's be clear: these fake clinics are a sham that push an extreme and dangerous anti-choice agenda onto millions of women seeking out reproductive health care options, many of whom already face significant barriers to care. We strongly oppose this rule.”
UltraViolet is a community of more than one million people that drives feminist cultural and political change. Through people power and strategic advocacy, we work to improve the lives of women and girls of all identities and backgrounds, and all people impacted by sexism, by dismantling discrimination and creating a cost for sexism.
