From Governor JB Pritzker:
State of Illinois Refuses to Implement the Trump Administration’s Title X Gag Rule
IDPH Will Ensure Funding to Protect Providers and Those They Serve
Governor JB Pritzker announced Thursday that the State of Illinois will refuse to implement the Trump administration’s Title X gag rule.
The gag rule holds hostage federal funding for contraception for low-income women unless providers refuse to refer or provide abortion services along with other reproductive health care.
The State of Illinois will forgo Title X funding from the federal government while the gag rule remains in effect.
Instead, the Illinois Department of Public Health will provide funding to the current 28 grantees, an estimated $2.4 million in federal funding, if the gag rule remains in place for the duration of the fiscal year.
As we move forward, the state remains committed to the multi-state lawsuit to permanently overturn this damaging rule.
“President Trump’s gag rule undermines women’s health care and threatens the providers that millions of women and girls rely on, and we will not let that stand in the state of Illinois,” said Governor JB Pritzker.
“Under my administration, Illinois will always stand with women and protect their fundamental right to choose. While I’m committed to bringing as many federal dollars to the state as possible, I refuse to sacrifice our values and allow vital care to lapse. In this state, we trust women to make their own health care decisions and will guarantee access to reproductive health care for all of our residents.”
Title X provides a holistic portfolio of critical preventive health services, including HIV prevention and testing, breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment, and reproductive health care for thousands of low-income, uninsured and underinsured Illinois residents and families each year.
It’s estimated in Illinois that nearly 773,000 women of reproductive age are in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies.
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More information in this Chicago Tribune story.
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Back in the 1990’s, the McHenry County Board voted to forgo Title X money for birth control because parents could not be told if their minor children were going to the County Health Department.
The cost is now borne by local taxpayers and minors cannot obtain birth control medicine or devices without parental permission.
McHenry County is believed to be the only county that has rejected the Title X money.
Since then, the McHenry County League of Women Voters have questioned County Board candidates on the subject.
For the latest candidate night results and background for the reason Federal funding was dumped, chick here.
Taxpayer money for elective abortion should be illegal.
Insider, you are correct.
Any Elective Medical Procedure, should not be paid for by the Taxpayer’s.
If you support what ‘Insider’ and ‘anotherwatcher’ posted you had better be prepared to support candidates who have a track record of doing what you want.
Support financially, via blog posts, walk in parades, walk door to door, put up signs, etc. etc.
Republicans do not have the luxury of getting tax dollars to campaign with.
Why do I say that?
Every penny put into campaigns by public sector unions is a penny extracted from a taxpayer.
That of course includes teachers (including the cuckoo poster) and others involved in education who account for 70 percent of your property tax on average.
Regarding:
“President Trump’s gag rule undermines women’s health care and threatens the providers that millions of women and girls rely on, and we will not let that stand in the state of Illinois,” said Governor JB Pritzker.
If the life of a woman is threatened unless she has an abortion, all other abortions are elective and have absolutely nothing to do with the woman’s health.
It’ time that Democrats and the left wing media get called out on their position that an elective abortion is about health. Elective abortions are about the lost of health namely the death of the infant in the womb.
questioning, you are correct regarding the Unions.
It was a Teacher’s Conduct, that brought the Title X Money, to the Public’s attention.
It was also the History of a Principal from District 47, that focused on Child Sexual Abuse in Schools, he was brought back from Nebraska to stand trial.
We all know a “Bad Apple” will rot the entire basket, if not removed.
The Time is now for the Good Teacher’s, and there are many, to take a stand.
They no longer have to join the Teacher’s Union.
But you don’t understand who you’re dealing with here.
The idiots who vote for DEMOCRATS elected an obese entitled autocrat who believes
that he bought Illinois and it belongs to him to do with whatever he pleases,
hence we have become a “Sanctuary State” by his proclamation alone.
Illinois is nothing more than a plaything to him, like so many pieces on
a Monopoly board.
He has bought himself a place in history by selling you out and what little remains of your future
in HIS state.
From the Land Of Lincoln to the Land Of Pritzker in just one election. Pretty kool, eh ?
When we had a “temporary” income tax increase, the money collected ‘disappeared’ to fund social welfare programs.
Since then the “temporary” has become permanent.
State residents have just seen a phenomenal increase in other tax and fees in the billions.
Watch as that money too ‘disappears’ in social welfare programs – its the communist / progressive way.
The public sector pension guarantee was written in stone according to the courts.
The Transportation “lock box” was not apparently and is already being whittled at by the courts.
Quit voting for the communists!
Honest Abe writes the truth.
When will people finally wake up and burn these goblins!?
BTW: There’s a communist cell, funded by Soros, in McHenry County!
Focus Issues
Medicare for All
Caring for Our Veterans
LGBT Equality
Women’s Rights
Affordable Housing
Racial Justice
Climate Change
A Living Wage
Open Immigration
https://ourrevolution.com/groups/mchenry-county-progressives/
Cereal, these are all code words for Buttigeig’s campaign and gay agenda
“The idiots who vote for DEMOCRATS elected an obese entitled autocrat…” I beg to disagree. The Democrats never supported our 73-year old, giant orange sexual-assaulter-in-chief, six times bankrupt, man-child buffoon to the White House. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwww…
There was a question today on the Jeopardy tv show. It was about the Pritzker family and the correct answer is that the family is worth $29 Billion today. Knowing that the Godfather was fiction, wonder what the Corrleone family was worth in the 40’s and 50’s in today’s dollars.