Not surprisingly the Ohio senator’s claims regarding the work the nonprofit does were deeply misleading. As Jenny Lawson, executive director of the organization’s super PAC, noted in a statement on Sunday, “Federal funds cannot be used to provide abortion care at any point in pregnancy.” On the flip side, she noted that the group’s “health centers do use federal funds to provide cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing and treatment, and many other essential reproductive health care services,” and that defunding it “would only deepen and expand the public health crisis we’re already in thanks to Donald Trump, causing more people to suffer and die for lack of basic reproductive care.” (As for late-term abortions in general, less than 1% of all abortions performed in 2021 were done so at or beyond 21 weeks; for his part, Trump regularly lies about Democrats supporting abortions occurring after a baby is born, a claim that is too stupid for words.)
Despite regularly crowing about helping overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, and sending the matter back to the “states”—many of which now have extreme or total abortion bans—Trump has been trying to convince voters that he’s somehow a moderate on reproductive rights.
(Last month, he told women that in a second term, “You will be protected and I will be your protector. Women will be happy, healthy, confident, and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion.”)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jd-vance-donald-trump-will-defund-planned-parenthood
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