National Institutes of Health Awards $495K to Planned Parenthood Exec to Study ‘Oppression’ and Abortion
“Enhancing Policy Impact for Reproductive Health Equity”
This is exactly the type of junk that DOGE was created to stop. How is it still happening?
The College Fix reports:
NIH gives Planned Parenthood exec $495K to study ‘oppression’ and abortion
A Planned Parenthood executive is researching “power and oppression” and “reproductive health services” with the help of nearly half a million in taxpayer funds.
The study, “Enhancing Policy Impact for Reproductive Health Equity,” will look at “societal dynamics of power and oppression” can affect access to sexual and reproductive health services. The study runs through Aug. 2026.
These “societal dynamics” disproportionately harm “individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color… those with disabilities and chronic disease, individuals who are transgender or gender-nonconforming…and people of lower socioeconomic status,” according to study author Elizabeth Janiak.
Janiak is a Harvard University professor whose research “explores how government and institutional policies create inequities in access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health…care,” according to her faculty bio. Janiak also serves as director of social science research at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
She also runs the “Lab for Contraception and Abortion Research” at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The study, which uses an “intersectional framework,” is designed to “understand barriers to insurance utilization, with the goal of improving future health policy interventions.”
The project received $495,307 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development split between $327,394 in direct costs and $167,913 in indirect costs.
The College Fix contacted the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and program official Ronna Popkin with questions about whether the project’s future has been affected by the Trump administration, a more specific summary of its costs, and if the NIH regularly funds research that uses an “intersectional framework.”
The Fix sent two emails and left voicemails, but received no responses in the past several weeks.
The Fix twice contacted Janiak and the United States Department of Health and Human Services via email with the same questions but received no response.
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The bureaucracy appears to attract the amoral, unethical, and incompetent.
I could tell the “Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health” how abortion affects child health for a lot less than $495,000.
This appears to be a direct violation of President Trump’s executive order curtailing DEI. Hopefully, someone will be immediately fired and the grant canceled.