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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019
President Trump sets up abortion
obstacles and bars clinic referrals
By RICARDO
ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
and DAVID CRARY
Associated Press
Chris Pizzello/Invision
Brian May and Adam Lambert of Queen perform beneath an image of Freddie Mercury.
‘Green Book’ wins best picture
award in an upset at the Oscars
By JAKE COYLE
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The
segregation-era
road-trip
drama “Green Book” was
crowned best picture at
the 91st Academy Awards,
delighting those who see the
fi lm as a feel-good throw-
back but disappointing oth-
ers who ridicule it as an out-
dated inversion of “Driving
Miss Daisy.”
In a year when Holly-
wood could have made his-
tory by bestowing its top
award on Netfl ix (“Roma”)
or Marvel (“Black Panther”)
for the fi rst time, the motion
picture academy instead
threw its fullest support
Sunday behind a traditional
interracial buddy tale that
proved as popular as it was
divisive. But Peter Farrelly’s
“Green Book” weathered
criticism that it was retro-
grade and inauthentic to tri-
umph over more acclaimed
fi lms and bigger box-offi ce
successes.
It was an unexpected
fi nale to a brisk, hostless
ceremony that was awash in
historic wins for diversity,
including Spike Lee’s fi rst
competitive Oscar. More
women and more individual
black nominees won than
ever before.
The Oscars otherwise
spread awards around for
Ryan Coogler’s superhero
sensation “Black Panther,”
Alfonso Cuaron’s black-
and-white personal epic
“Roma” and the Freddie
Mercury biopic “Bohemian
Rhapsody.”
“Green Book” also won
best supporting actor for
Mahershala Ali and best
original screenplay.
Lee’s win for best adapted
screenplay for his white
supremacist drama “BlacK-
kKlansman,” an award he
shared with three co-writers,
gave the ceremony its sig-
nature moment. The crowd
rose in a standing ovation,
Lee leapt into the arms of
presenter Samuel L. Jackson
and even the backstage press
room burst into applause.
One of the biggest sur-
prises of the night was in the
best actress category. Olivia
Colman won for her Queen
Anne in the royal romp “The
Favourite,” denying Glenn
Close her fi rst Oscar. Close
remains the most-nominated
living actor never to win,
with seven nominations.
The night’s co-lead nomi-
nee “Roma” won best direc-
tor and best cinematog-
raphy for Cuaron, whose
fi lm also notched Mexi-
co’s fi rst foreign language
fi lm Oscar. Cuaron and his
“Three Amigos” country-
men — Alejandro Inarritu
and Guillermo del Toro,
who presented Cuaron with
best picture — have had a
stranglehold on the cate-
gory, winning fi ve of the last
six years.
The wins for “Roma”
gave Netfl ix its most signifi -
cant awards yet, but “Green
Book” denied the stream-
ing giant the best picture
win it dearly sought. Net-
fl ix remains to some a con-
tentious force in Hollywood,
since it largely bypasses the-
aters. The wins for “Black
Panther” — along with best
animated fi lm winner “Spi-
der-Man: Into the Spider
Verse” — meant the fi rst
Academy Awards for Mar-
vel, the most consistent
blockbuster factory Holly-
wood has ever seen.
WASHINGTON —
The Trump administra-
tion on Friday set up new
obstacles for women seek-
ing abortions, barring tax-
payer-funded family plan-
ning clinics from making
abortion referrals.
The new policy is cer-
tain to be challenged in
court. Washington state
says it will sue to chal-
lenge the policy.
The rule by the Health
and Human Services
Department also would
prohibit federally funded
family planning clin-
ics from being housed
in the same locations as
abortion providers, and
require stricter fi nancial
separation.
Clinic staff would
still be permitted to dis-
cuss abortion with clients,
along with other options.
However, that would no
longer be required.
The move is the lat-
est in a series of Trump
administration efforts to
remake government pol-
icy on reproductive health.
The American Medi-
cal Association warned it
could have an impact far
beyond abortion, poten-
tially affecting access to
health care services now
provided to low-income
women by the clinics,
including birth control,
cancer screenings, and
testing and treatment for
sexually transmitted dis-
eases. By law, the family
planning program does
not pay for abortions.
“This is the wrong pre-
scription and threatens to
compound a health equity
defi cit in this nation,”
AMA president Barbara
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L. McAneny said in a state-
ment. “Women should have
access to these medical ser-
vices regardless of where
they live, how much money
they make, their background,
or whether they have health
insurance.”
It could be some time
before women served by
the federal family program
feel the full impact. Wom-
en’s groups, organizations
representing the clinics, and
Democratic-led states are
expected to sue to block the
policy from going into effect.
Administration offi cials told
abortion opponents on a
call Friday that they expect
legal action, according to a
participant.
Abortion is a legal med-
ical procedure, but federal
laws prohibit the use of tax-
payer funds to pay for abor-
tions except in cases of rape,
incest, or to save the life of
the woman.
Planned
Parenthood,
whose affi liates are major
providers of family planning
services as well as abortions,
said the administration is try-
ing to impose a “gag rule,”
and launched a full cam-
paign to block it. Congressio-
nal supporters of the organi-
zation said it receives about
$60 million a year from the
federal program.
“I want our patients to
know this — we will fi ght
through every avenue so
this illegal, unethical rule
never goes into effect,” said
Planned Parenthood’s presi-
dent, Dr. Leana Wen.
She said the new pol-
icy would prevent doctors
from referring women for
abortions “even if your life
depended on it.”
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., declared:
“Republicans must end their
relentless assault on women’s
health care and rights.”
Planned Parenthood and
other groups representing the
clinics say the new require-
ments for physical separa-
tion of facilities would be
costly and all but impossi-
ble to fulfi ll. Planned Parent-
hood said the administration
is making another attempt to
drive it out of business, after
efforts to deny funding failed
in Congress.
White House counselor
Kellyanne Conway scoffed
at that argument. “They’ve
been saying for years they
don’t co-mingle their funds,
so this should be easy for
them,” she told reporters at
the White House. “Physi-
cally separate and fi nancially
separate.”
Religious conservatives
see the administration’s
action as a way to break
down what they call an indi-
rect taxpayer subsidy of abor-
tion providers.
Tony Perkins, president of
the Family Research Council,
called it “a major step toward
the ultimate goal of ending
taxpayers’ forced partnership
with the abortion industry.”
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