Title X is a federal program with the purpose of providing family planning. Who has Donald Trump reportedly put in charge of it? Someone who doesn’t believe contraceptives work and thinks the federal government has no role in supporting family planning. Mother Jones’ Hannah Levintova gives the background on Teresa Manning, who Politico reports will be the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Population Affairs:
"Of course, contraception doesn't work. Its efficacy is very low especially when you consider over years," she said. Manning continued: "The prospect that contraception would always prevent the conception of a child is preposterous."
So according to Manning, if something is only 99 percent effective we shouldn’t use it because it’s not 100 percent effective? That is some logic that belongs in the Trump regime, for sure.
"I always shake my head. You know, family planning is what occurs between a husband and a wife and God," Manning said during a 2003 panel about a book she edited. "And it doesn’t really involve the federal government, much less the United Nations, where we hear about family planning all the time. What are they doing in that business?"
Educating people about their options? Making preventive care available and affordable so that wives and husbands (in consultation with God if they so choose) can make their own decisions? But while Manning doesn’t believe the federal government should be involved in “that business:”
In her new job at HHS, Manning will oversee a program that provides funding for contraception, STI testing, and other reproductive medical care for low-income and uninsured men and women across the country. According to the Guttmacher Institute, which provides research on reproductive health care, in 2015 Title X-funded clinics helped women avoid 822,300 unintended pregnancies.
Please, someone: Write another article about Ivanka Trump’s socially liberal positions and the influence she has on her father.
