The Erika Kirk "Poor Babies" Problem is Bigger Than You Think

Today's FULL PDS here: youtube.com/watch?v=PPHFGDu1NJc&feature=youtu.be Watch the full Daily DeFranco Show: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDeFranco?sub_confirmation=1 Get More News Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLB7kBu9O5dbBKhaIOmqcQ?sub_confirmation=1 While Erika Kirk is telling women to have more babies than they can afford, the Trump administration is making sure that includes teenagers. Right, the Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that it’s canceling millions of dollars in teen pregnancy prevention grants in the name of “restructuring priorities.” With the given reason being, quote, "misalignment with agency priority, specifically normalizing sexual activity for minors." And so that money will be redirected into funding streams that more closely adhere to the conservative agenda - with a notice from HHS reading, “The goal of this initiative is to identify effective interventions focused on body literacy and ensuring transparency and protection of parental rights… and to disseminate the research findings and lessons learned to inform future studies.” Obviously, many people aren’t in favor of this move - including Healthy Futures of Texas, which provides sexual health education in community centers and school districts in San Antonio, Dallas, and the Rio Grande Valley. They spent months jumping through hoops to keep their funding after the Trump administration fired a warning shot against the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program last year. Right, they issued a notice saying programs that used federal funding will need to make sure all their materials, quote, “reflect the immutable biological reality of sex, not radical gender ideology, and may not promote anti-American ideologies such as discriminatory equity ideology.” And threatening to yank funding for any program that doesn’t adhere to those rules. So Healthy Futures changes their material - revising 11 different programs to make sure they were good. And they were even re-awarded their federal grants twice. So they were caught completely off-guard when it was yanked out of nowhere - with Ginger Mullaney, the president and CEO, saying, "I'm frustrated that these are lives that were being changed — there's generational impact and social and economic mobility for our communities using programs that are proven and demonstrated to be effective.” And she’s right - programs dedicated to preventing teen pregnancy have proven to be effective. —————————— Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks, Matthew Henry Art Department: William Crespo Writing/Research: Star Pralle, Philip DeFranco ———————————— #ErikaKirk #HHS #Trump