2 May 2017 12:53 pm
Two great new hires.
But thanks to The Memory Hole some of her extreme, false and just plain crazy content was captured.
She scrubbed lots of rabidly LGBTQ-phobic posts.
And things like, 'half of all rape allegations are false' and 'McDonalds funds homosexual activism.'
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The second great hire also at HHS is Teresa (Wagner) Manning.
Her job will be to oversee the Title X program, which allocates nearly $300 million per year in family planning funds to providers across the country and shapes policy and regulation about topics like contraception and teen pregnancy.
The problem is that Manning doesn't really believe that contraceptives are effective in preventing pregnancy or cutting down the number of abortions.
She says that there really is no evidence to support that.
And she does not think that the government should play a role in family planning.
One has to wonder why the heck an opponent of birth control would take a job to oversee the nation's only federal program dedicated to family planning.
Of course that's not true.
When taken correctly the pill is up to 99.9% effective.
As soon as Yoest was hired she began to scrub her website.A key new Trump hire believes in these alternative facts about abortion.
Anti-abortion advocates gained another powerful voice in the Trump administration last week when Donald Trump appointed Charmaine Yoest to serve as assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
There, she’ll oversee digital communications and coordinate public affairs across Health and Human Services’ regional offices.
But as the former president and CEO of Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion organization that helps states craft legislation to restrict abortion, Yoest was a leading light in the anti-abortion movement, championing extreme views — and sometimes false information.
These are five of Yoest’s more controversial positions:
1. Studies show abortion increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer.
2. Abortion should be prohibited in cases of rape.
3. IUDs have “life-ending properties.”
4. Abortion rates are down because more women are thinking like her.
5. Doctors should be legally obligated to tell patients nonsurgical abortions can be reversed.
But thanks to The Memory Hole some of her extreme, false and just plain crazy content was captured.
She scrubbed lots of rabidly LGBTQ-phobic posts.
And things like, 'half of all rape allegations are false' and 'McDonalds funds homosexual activism.'
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The second great hire also at HHS is Teresa (Wagner) Manning.
Her job will be to oversee the Title X program, which allocates nearly $300 million per year in family planning funds to providers across the country and shapes policy and regulation about topics like contraception and teen pregnancy.
The problem is that Manning doesn't really believe that contraceptives are effective in preventing pregnancy or cutting down the number of abortions.
She says that there really is no evidence to support that.
And she does not think that the government should play a role in family planning.
One has to wonder why the heck an opponent of birth control would take a job to oversee the nation's only federal program dedicated to family planning.
In an interview with NPR in 2003 Manning said “contraception doesn’t work” and that women taking the pill will eventually get pregnant.TRUMP’S FAMILY PLANNING PICK TERESA MANNING CALLED CONTRACEPTIVES "MEDICALLY IRRESPONSIBLE"
President Donald Trump has reportedly picked an anti-abortion law professor who has called access to contraceptives "anti-family"to run a national program to fight teen pregnancy.
Trump made Teresa R. Manning deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) on Monday.
As part of the role Manning will help manage the $286 million Title X federal family planning program.
Family planning and contraception advocates have voiced strong criticism at the decision to put Manning in a role that could steer the course of American health policy.
Without Title X, rates of teen pregnancy would have been 30 percent higher across the U.S. in 2014, according to a 2016 study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan health policy think tank.
Rates of unintended pregnancy, unplanned birth, and abortion would have been 33 percent higher without publicly funded family planning from Title X centers, the study found.
Created in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, the program helps low-income or uninsured Americans access family planning counseling, contraceptives, and tests and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
But Manning has opposed the use of contraceptives for years.
In 2001, she told The Wall Street Journal that giving people easier access to the morning after pill is "medically irresponsible" and "anti-family," while working as a policy and legal analyst for right-to-life issues at the conservative Family Research Council lobbying group in Washington, D.C. Teens (she wrote, under her married name of Wagner) would be able to obtain pills without their parents' knowledge and that access was “promoting promiscuity.”
Of course that's not true.
When taken correctly the pill is up to 99.9% effective.