Trump appoints an anti-abortion activist, who does not believe that birth control works, to head up a federal family planning program for low income Americans.

Teresa Manning.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Manning, a former lobbyist with the National Right to Life Committee and legislative analyst for the conservative Family Research Council, will serve as deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Population Affairs administers the Title X program, which subsidizes contraception, Pap smears and other preventive health care services for 4 million low-income Americans, roughly half of whom are uninsured. 

Manning has said she opposes federal family planning funding, and she has a long history of making false claims about birth control and women’s health. 

“Of course, contraception doesn’t work,” she said in a 2003 NPR interview. “Its efficacy is very low especially when you consider over years, which you know a lot of contraception health advocates want, to start women in their adolescent years when they’re extremely fertile, incidentally. And continue for 10, 20, 30 years, over that span of time the prospect that contraception would always prevent the conception of a child is preposterous.” 

Manning has referred to abortion as “legalized crime” and mistakenly argued that emergency contraception, which can prevent pregnancy for up to 72 hours after unprotected sex, is “the destruction of a human life already conceived.” (It’s not.) She has also claimed that the link between abortion and breast cancer is “undisputed,” when there is actually no evidence of a causal relationship between the two. 

Just another example of Trump putting people in charge of programs so that they can undermine them or outright destroy them.

A woman who does not believe in contraception heading a family planning program, it is like an Onion article come to life.