Tennessee Rep. Mark Green Introduces Bill to Stop Joe Biden’s HHS from Bullying Pro-Life States
Tennessee Rep. Mark Green (R) is set to introduce a bill on Tuesday that would bar President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from abusing Title X funds to coerce pro-life states into supporting abortion.
“The Biden administration has weaponized HHS to penalize states for standing for life,” Green said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News. “This is a new low—even for this administration. My bill ensures states can stand for life without getting crucial Title X funding yanked in the process.”
Title X is a family planning program created under the Public Health Service Act in 1970. The program provides contraceptives and other services, mostly to low-income Americans, and serves an estimated four million people annually, according to the HHS. The Donald Trump administration previously passed a ruling broadly prohibiting funding from being used for abortion services; however, the Biden administration was quick to reverse the rule.
Green said his bill, officially titled the States Choose Life Act of 2023, would protect his state of Tennessee and other states with pro-life laws “from being bullied by the federal government into propping up the abortion industry.”
“Specifically, my legislation amends Title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit HHS from revoking funding for states that don’t make referrals for abortion,” he said.
The bill comes after the HHS suspended Tennessee’s Title X Funding, which totaled $7.5 million in fiscal year 2023, primarily because the state does not provide abortion referrals to pregnant clients. Federal health officials claim the state is “out of compliance with the Title X regulatory requirements” because the state’s policy only mandates that providers who receive Title X funding share information “regarding all options that are legal in the state of Tennessee.” Tennessee notably outlawed abortions entirely in August 2022.
In April, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) backfilled funding for reproductive services in the budget amendment to replace the millions pulled in Title X funding.
The HHS is relying on a 2021 rule “which completely contradicts Title X’s prohibition on using its funding for abortion activities,” according to Green’s office. The agency’s use of the rule also reportedly “negates the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson.”
“As we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, it’s important to remember that the fight for life is just beginning. Though the tyranny of Roe is over, it is now up to states to protect unborn babies,” Green said. “And states should be allowed to do so without suffering repercussions, financial or otherwise, from the federal government. No medical professional should be forced against his or her conscience to refer patients for abortions. As it stands today, Secretary Becerra is using Title X funding as a cudgel to force states to participate in abortions or risk losing funding. This is abhorrent.”
Green also sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on June 20, calling the revocation of Tennessee’s Title X funds “arbitrary and malicious.”
He wrote:
Your department is targeting Tennessee because this administration believes that everyone must kowtow to the radical pro-abortion agenda. Using Title X funds as a club to beat states into submission on a political issue is a gross violation of your position, especially when considering that these funds have supported Tennessee families for over 50 years.
“This administration has made it clear that it will exploit every opportunity to skirt the laws and push its radical agenda on American citizens,” he continued.
KAMALA HARRIS: They expected her to be a clone of Joe Biden. And it happened!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-ever-happened-to-kamala-harris.html
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIipQxGdjYs
Senate GOP Gives Victory to Kamala Harris, Her Big Tech Donors with Green Card Giveaway…. WITH KAMALA, JUST FOLLOW HER LONG HISTORY OF BRIBES SUCKING!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-kamala-harris-another-closet.html
How Low Can Kamala Go?
"The lowest net negative rating for a vice president in the history of the poll."
Joe Biden had better watch his coffee and be on 25th Amendment watch because there’s only one way Kamala is going to inherit his job and it’s not through a free and fair election.
Nearly half of the respondents have a negative view of Vice President Harris, according to a new NBC News survey.
The poll, published on Monday, found that 49 percent of respondents have a negative opinion of Harris, while 32 percent of those surveyed have a positive opinion of the vice president.
Harris received a net negative rating of -17, which is the lowest net negative rating for a vice president in the history of the poll.
Truly historic. Also I blame racim.
It’s a great inspiration that the first vice president to be less popular than syphilis is a half-black woman who escaped slavery in Berkeley.
How low can Kamala go? With nearly no Democrat support, hating her could truly be a bipartisan national moment.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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VP Kamala Harris to Teen Girls: ‘Counting on You’ to Push Abortion Agenda Forward
Vice President Kamala Harris charged up-and-coming young voters with pushing Democrats’ abortion-on-demand agenda in an exclusive interview with Teen Vogue.
The outlet reported that Harris gave an exclusive interview on the Dobbs anniversary because she “want[s] the readers of Teen Vogue to know that [they] are leaders.” Harris spoke with the outlet via phone after giving a Dobbs anniversary speech in North Carolina on Saturday, where she bemoaned the end of Roe v. Wade and called pro-life Republicans “extremists.”
“You are leaders by virtue of the fact that you are reading this. And I’m counting on you because your voice and your perspective is so important to the future of our country,” Harris continued, ostensibly addressing Teen Vogue‘s target audience: teenagers.
“And one of the significant ways you will express your voice is with your vote, your ability to organize, [and] your ability to remind each other that you are leaders and can help lead the direction of our country.”
Harris emphasized to Teen Vogue’s audience of teenagers that “young people who are able to vote have the power to actually change the composition of the Congress,” something Harris hopes could lead to Democrats eventually passing federal legislation codifying abortion access. The vice president pointed to pro-abortion successes she contends were driven by young voters in states like Kansas and California during the 2022 midterms.
Harris further encouraged Teen Vogue’s young readers to have “conversations” with their friends about “what’s at stake when you vote” and to use their social media accounts to promote abortion.
“Also, use your voice through your social media to remind people who are going through struggles, maybe unwanted pregnancies, to know that they are not alone and that there’s help available to them,” she said.
Harris continued, “I think it’s so important that when we know somebody who is going through a difficult time and a personal challenge, that we remind them they’re not alone and that we’re not going to judge them, but we are going to support them.”
Kamala Harris is notably leading the Biden administration’s abortion agenda going into her 2024 reelection bid with President Joe Biden. In May, Harris convened with 14 women from across the abortion industry and other groups to allegedly ask for their advice on how the White House can spread its pro-abortion message across the United States ahead of 2024 so that it “doesn’t get stuck in the D.C. echo chamber,” Axios reported.
Harris is also set to be the beneficiary of a $10 million-plus campaign from EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest pro-abortion PAC whose goal is to elect pro-abortion Democratic women to public office.
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