services. it was designed to provide access to contraceptive services, supplies and information to anyone who would want and need them. in 20127, though, title 10, served 4 million family planning clients. nearly nine out of the ten clients were female. the new rules would prohibit title 10 funds from being used to perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion. and clinics will no longer have to counsel women on reproductive options including abortion. planned parenthood receives close to $60 million in family planning funding each year. and that funding is now in jeopardy. senate minority leader chuck schumer responded to the rule in a statement saying, this is yet another example of the systemic health care sabotage that republicans have been implementing since day one of the trump administration, but this time, women s reproductive rights are the casualty. in a different lawsuit yesterday, 21 states sued the trump administration over this gag rule. and joining me now, ellen
it is just hysteria intended to scare women and scare policymakers into thinking planned parenthood deserves money which they don t. america does not believe contraception is equivalent to abortion. this is just an attempt to divide those two things and we have to go back to the reality that all this money will flow to family-planning programs that are willing to abide by this, understand what family-planning is and isn t. heather: $60 million in federal funding would go to planned parenthood this proposed rule doesn t take one penny from family-planning funding, it redirects to holistic healthcare clinics that provide complement of care and don t perform
this is intended to scare women and policy makers into thinking planned parenthood deserves money. america doesn t believe that contraception is the equivalent of an abortion. this is an attempt to divide those two things. we have to go back to the reality that all of this money will flow to family planning programs and could what it is and isn t. shannon: in this cut 50 to $60-million in federal funding will go to planned parenthood and has? exactly. but what is critical this rule doesn t take one penny away from family planning funding. it redirects that funding to health care clinics that don t perform or refer for abortions.
quarter of family planning funding. women s lives and womens a lives, they don t know the issues are in washington. all they want is a service. and if the service is not available, they are the ones that are suffering. reporter: operates between 10 and 15 abortion cases a day. globally, the cuts could cause an increase of more than half a million abortions. like flora, so many more women in malawi could live through hell. well, certainly, max, the impact could be extreme. if you look at the numbers based on the kaiser family foundation, a global health group, you could have between 6.2 and 23 million fewer couples receiving contraception. you could have a huge amount more unintended pregnancies, and significantly, a big spike in abortions globally, and more