The Duce opposes birth control

I missed this last month.

Trump's massive hypocrisy is just beyond anything.

The Trump Administration’s Backward Attitude Toward Birth Control

[T]he Trump administration appeared to accept the conservatives’ retrograde thinking with a recent announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs outlining its priorities for awarding Title X grants. 

Alarmingly, unlike previous funding announcements, the document makes zero reference to contraception. 

In setting its standards for grants, it disposes of nationally recognized clinical standards, developed with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that have long been guideposts for family planning. 

Instead, the government says it wants to fund “innovative” services and emphasizes “fertility awareness” approaches, which include the so-called rhythm method. 

These have long been preferred by the religious right, but are notoriously unreliable.

The announcement also says the government will look to fund programs that involve parents or guardians in minors’ family planning decisions, and get spouses involved, with no mention of privacy. 

And the announcement suggests that the government wants to promote abstinence until marriage.

This is not a surprise, given who is in charge of the Trump administration’s Title X office — Valerie Huber, a longtime advocate of abstinence-until-marriage education programs, which are generally considered to be less effective than comprehensive efforts. 

Ms. Huber landed that post in January, after the resignation of Teresa Manning, who vocally opposes abortion and contraception. 

The new funding announcement is in keeping with the Trump administration’s thwarted attempt last year to roll back the mandate in the Affordable Care Act that employer-sponsored health insurance policies cover contraception.

Advocates for women’s health care are angered by this attack on their work.