{"id":1958854,"date":"2023-06-28T02:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republican-introduces-bill-to-stop-biden-hhs-from-cutting-funds-to-pro-life-states\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T02:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:19:17","slug":"tennessee-republican-introduces-bill-to-stop-biden-hhs-from-cutting-funds-to-pro-life-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republican-introduces-bill-to-stop-biden-hhs-from-cutting-funds-to-pro-life-states\/","title":{"rendered":"TN Republican proposes bill to prevent Biden&#8217;s HHS from reducing funds to pro-life states."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennessee-republican-introduces-bill-to-stop-biden-hhs-from-cutting-funds-to-pro-life-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Bill Introduced to Protect Pro-Life States<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) has taken a stand against the federal public health agency&#8217;s coercion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idaho-governor-signs-bill-banning-abortions-after-fetal-heartbeat-can-be-detected\/\" title=\"Idaho Governor Signs Bill Banning Abortions After Fetal Heartbeat Can Be Detected\">pro-life states<\/a> into supporting abortion. In a bold move, he introduced the &#8220;States Choose Life Act of 2023&#8221; to prevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from demanding states make referrals for abortion in exchange for receiving Title X health care funding.<\/p>\n<p>Title X is a federal program that aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-one-is-coming-for-contraception-but-theyre-definitely-coming-for-conscience-rights\/\" title=\"No One is Coming For Contraception, But They\u2019re Definitely Coming For Conscience Rights\">provide birth control<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-suspends-s-c-new-abortion-ban\/\" title=\"Federal judge suspends S.C. new abortion ban\">reproductive health services<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-demonic-religious-mothers-mourn-how-trans-movement-is-devouring-sons-find-solace-in-secret-online-group\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Demonic\u2019: Religious Mothers Mourn How Trans Movement Is \u2018Devouring\u2019 Sons, Find Solace In Secret Online Group\">low-income women<\/a>. However, in 2019, the Trump administration prohibited clinics receiving Title X grants from discussing or referring their pregnant clients to abortion. This decision was made to ensure that American taxpayers were not forced to subsidize the abortion industry through federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Biden administration began reversing this policy in October 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the Trump-era Title X rule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republican-introduces-bill-to-stop-biden-hhs-from-cutting-funds-to-pro-life-states\/\" title=\"TN Republican proposes bill to prevent Biden's HHS from reducing funds to pro-life states.\">leading pro-abortion organizations<\/a> like Planned Parenthood to withdraw from the federal program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current rule, clinics receiving Title X funding must inform pregnant women about all available options, including abortion. Using this as a basis, the HHS suspended $75 million in Title X funding to Tennessee, a state where performing or inducing abortion is illegal, with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n<h3>Title X Funding Used as a Coercive Tool<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Green did not mince words when calling out HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. He accused the department of using Title X funding as a cudgel to force states into participating in abortions or risk losing funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;States should have the freedom to make their own choices without facing financial or other repercussions from the federal government,&#8221; stated Rep. Green. &#8220;No medical professional should be compelled to refer patients for abortions against their conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to justify their decision, HHS officials wrote a letter to Tennessee health chief Ralph Alvarado, claiming that the state was not in compliance with Title X regulatory requirements. They argued that the state&#8217;s policy of only sharing information about options legal in Tennessee was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Green dismissed this argument, asserting that the Biden administration&#8217;s Title X rule is in<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) introduced the &#8220;States Choose Life Act of 2023,&#8221; a bill to prevent the federal public health agency from using funds to pressure pro-life states into endorsing abortion. The one-page bill aims to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from requiring states to provide referrals for abortion services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":1958855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}