{"id":40127,"date":"2021-09-17T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40127"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T23:00:44","slug":"biden-announces-federal-support-for-patients-abortion-providers-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40127","title":{"rendered":"BIDEN ANNOUNCES FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR PATIENTS, ABORTION PROVIDERS IN TEXAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) announced on Friday several actions it plans to take to protect patients and abortion providers in Texas following a recently enacted abortion law in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Supreme Court declined to block a Texas abortion law, which allows abortions to be banned once a &#8220;fetal heartbeat&#8221; has been detected, which often happens before a woman knows she is pregnant. Private citizens can sue those who they believe aided or performed the medical procedure, garnering $10,000 for each successful suit.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court ruling, the Biden administration has vowed to fight the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Among the initiatives announced by HHS Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akhsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmkstlhp_bzqpggflfypqfpzpbplj.html?a=&amp;b=42430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akhsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmkstlhp_bzqpggflfypqfpzpbplj.html?a%3D%26b%3D42430&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632004824488000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMSyLKCPg4O2RtKPkVXnVyGATsGg\">Xavier Becerra<\/a>\u00a0is additional funding for Every Body Texas, a nonprofit that distributes money to sexual and reproductive health care clinics throughout Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Up to $10 million would also be given in grants to clinics that have seen a higher number of clients following the recently enacted Texas law in addition to other clinics across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40128,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions\/40128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}