The House passed a bill allowing the president to revoke nonprofits’ tax-exempt status if deemed terrorist-supporting, which critics, including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, argue could threaten healthcare services like cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing, abortion care, and gender-affirming care; as the bill moves to the Senate, Planned Parenthood warns of potential funding cuts affecting public healthcare.
The ACLU and reproductive rights groups like Planned Parenthood of America vocally opposed the bill and tried to warn lawmakers of the dangers.
I wish we would do this with churches.
Yikes. This will end poorly, very poorly
For those wishing to know more. Section 4 applies the standard that is found in 18 USC § 2339B
Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989).
Who that applies to I leave to the reader, but that’s the standard that would be argued in Court over any determination that the President gave to any entity.
Why the fuck would you want this kond of power in hands of the president. At least keep the power with the Senate… or with the judiciary branch where it belongs.
Why the fully capitalized first letters in the post title?
Bill Will?
At first I thought this was a post about Bill/William Clinton. Obviously not after checking, but briefly confusing headline.
Edit: The actual title of the article doesn’t capitalize every single word, and doesn’t read in a confusing manner…
“Sweeping nonprofit House bill passes, healthcare groups turn attention to Senate”
So why not use the original article title?
Some websites provide a linking title that Lemmy (and Facebook, twitter, etc) automatically fetch that is different from the one on the page.
