Title X, Robotic Shorts & Apple TV+ - Tuesday, August 20th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, August 20th, 2019!
What to know today about Planned Parenthood, and why it's turning down millions of dollars in government funding.
Plus: we're talking hot weather, robotic shorts, and Target's new line...
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Planned Parenthood & Title X: NYT, FOX News, NPR, CBS News, Reuters
NYPD Officer Fired: NBC News, WSJ, NYT
Epstein Autopsy: Fox News, AP, CNN
CEOs on Corporate Purpose: CNBC, WSJ
Hot Weather: Weather Channel, Accuweather, USA Today
Fake Accounts Removed: NBC News, The Verge, Fox Business, Twitter
Robotic Shorts: The Verge, Business Insider, Scientific American, Science
Target's Food Brand: USA Today, CNBC
Apple Arcade: Engadget, Business Insider, 9to5Mac
New iPhones: Business Insider
Apple TV+: Bloomberg, The Verge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, August 20th. What to know today about Planned Parenthood and why it's |
| 0:04.7 | turning down millions of dollars in government funding. Plus we're talking hot weather, |
| 0:08.9 | robotic shorts and Target. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome, Welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:18.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:29.0 | A major change to Planned Parenthood, the organization says it'll give up millions of dollars of federal funding. |
| 0:35.0 | As of this week, and for the first time in nearly 50 years, Planned Parenthood will formally |
| 0:39.1 | leave Title 10. |
| 0:41.1 | That's a government program that offers money to help low-income women get birth control, |
| 0:45.2 | pregnancy tests, and other health screenings. |
| 0:47.8 | The New York Times reports Planned Parenthood uses that funding to provide those services to |
| 0:51.6 | one and a half million low-income women each year. |
| 0:54.8 | So why give it up? |
| 0:56.6 | It's because the Trump administration attached a new abortion rule to that money, a so-called |
| 1:00.8 | gag order. |
| 1:02.1 | It means any organization who gets the Title 10 grants |
| 1:05.0 | is then not allowed to refer patients |
| 1:07.0 | to any doctors who can perform abortions. |
| 1:09.6 | Planned Parenthood says it refuses to go along |
| 1:11.6 | with what it calls an unethical rule that forces |
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