President Trump has proposed a new rule, posted at the Department of Health and Human Services website, that wold bar clinics or programs that receive federal family planning funds from referring women to places that provide abortions.
Doctors would be forbidden from even discussing abortions with their patients.
Margaret Atwood wrote a book about this type of society entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In the book women are used solely as “breeders.”
Trump praised the new gag rule in a speech to an anti-abortion group. He used the event to campaign, saying, “This November, vote for family, vote for love, vote for faith and values, vote for country and vote for life.”
For more on this, see Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, “Trump Abortion Rule Would Limit Where Doctors Could Direct Women,” New York Times, (May 23, 2018), p. A16.
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