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7 DENVER CATHOLIC | AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 World & Nation GIVE, WALK, HELP. Help the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Denver Metro Council Feed, Clothe and Shelter the Poor. 12 th Annual Friends of The Poor Walk Saturday, September 28 th 8:30AM Go to PoorWalk.SVDPden.org for Walk details. Lace up your Tennies and Help Us Help the Poor! GIVE, WALK, HELP. 11 th Annual Friends of The Poor Saturday, September 29th 8:30AM Bishop Machebeuf High School 458 Uinta Way Denver, CO 80230 Go to PoorWalk.SVDPden.org for Walk details. Lace up your Tennies and Help Us Help the Poor. Help the Society of St. Vincent Denver Metro Council Feed, Clothe and Shelter the Poor. Bishop Machebeuf High School 458 Uinta Way Denver, CO 80230 If you cannot make the walk, please send your donation to: SVdP Denver Metro Council 558 Castle Pines Pkwy Unit B-4 #107, Castle Pines, CO 80108. Credit card donations can be made via the website above. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Bishop Machebeuf High School 458 Uinta Way Denver, CO 80230 Title X: Protect Life Rule comes in as Planned Parenthood walks out BY CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY P lanned Parenthood will no longer receive Title X funds and has withdrawn from the program entirely. The decision took e¨ect Aug. 19, as the deadline passed for compli- ance with new program rules. The organization, the nation's larg- est chain of abortion providers, con- firmed their withdrawal from Title X after a court refused to grant an emer- gency injunction against the Protect Life Rule, which bars fund recipients from referring women for abortions, prevents participating groups from co-locating with abortion clinics, and requires financial separation of govern- ment-funded programs from those that carry out abortions. August 19 was the last day for the group to file a "good faith" undertaking to comply with the new rule. The decision means Planned Par- enthood will lose about $60 million in federal funding, about one-fifth of total Title X funds, and approximately 15% of its annual federal funding. The organization's acting president Alexis McGill Johnson said Monday that "The Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X." Johnson had previously called the Protect Life Rule an attempt by the president to "bully us into with- holding abortion information from our patients." Calling the Protect Life Rule a "gag on health care providers," Johnson said in a previous statement, issued last week, that the rule is "a blatant assault on our health and rights, and we will not stand for it." Doreen Denny, Senior Director of Government Relations at Concerned Women for America, said it was "a day of reckoning " for the abortion provider. "Planned Parenthood has no enti- tlement to federal funding, and they apparently have no plans to comply with federal rules either," Denny said.° "For years, Planned Parenthood has skirted federal law to promote its abortion business on the backs of the American taxpayer.° "If Planned Parenthood truly cared about promoting health, it would stop peddling abortion and start supporting women. Planned Parenthood's threat to withdraw from the Title X program proves one thing: health care is not their primary business; abortion is," said Denny. The abortion provider's depar- ture from the program altogether is a change from their initial response to the rule. Previously, the organization had intended to remain in the program, but refuse funding. HHS Deputy Assis- tant Secretary Diane Foley called this arrangement "inconsistent" in a letter to the organization. In°guidance°issued by HHS on Aug. 8, the department responded directly to Planned Parenthood's objections to the rule, noting that the organization operated less than 10% of participating sites nationwide. "To the extent that Planned Parent- hood claims that it must make burden- some changes to comply with the Final Rule, it is actually choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds to provide a broad range of acceptable and e¨ective family planning methods and services to cli- ents in need of these services." Despite operating less than 10% of the Title X fund recipient clinics, Planned Parenthood received about 15% of the country's total Title X funds.° Title X is a federal program created in 1965 that subsidizes family-plan- ning and preventative health services, including contraception, for low-in- come families. It has been frequently updated and subject to new regulations. The administration previously said in June that it would delay enforcement of the rule, provided that fund recipi- ents submitted a compliance plan and made a "good faith" undertaking to comply with most of the rule's require- ments as soon as possible. Facilities are required to end co-location with abor- tion sites by March 2020.

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