It's 'wrong' to let Title X cover abortion, says USCCB's pro-life chairman | Crux Now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Abortion takes the life of an already-conceived and growing child," he said.
53% : "Title X was intended and authorized to be a program entirely separate from abortion," Naumann said, "and it plainly states that 'the funds authorized under this legislation (shall) be used only to support preventive family planning services, population research, infertility services, and other related medical, informational and educational activities.'"
51% : He said the "Protect Life Rule" "draws a bright line between abortion and family planning."
42% : "Abortion is not family planning.
42% : Section 1008 of the law states that "none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning."
41% : It is "wrong to allow taxpayer dollars to fund abortion providers who participate in a pre-pregnancy program specifically designed to exclude abortion," Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, said in an Oct. 7 statement.
36% : He urged Biden "to suspend this proposed rule and leave the Title X program as it was intended and authorized to be -- a program entirely separate from abortion."
32% : The archbishop called it a "terrible policy" that "would reintegrate abortion into what is supposed to be a pre-pregnancy family planning program."
27% : The Biden administration 'is wrong' to allow Title X family planning funds to be used for abortion, said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

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