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RFK Jr to cut LGBTQ services from National Suicide and Crisis Hotline
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RFK Jr to cut LGBTQ services from National Suicide and Crisis Hotline

Jennifer Sandlin
Apr 24, 2025
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The Department of Health and Human Services, led by "vaccine skeptic and peddler of junk science" RFK, Jr., is planning to cut the 988 National Suicide and Crisis Hotline's program serving LGBTQ youth, which in February received 2100 contacts a day. The news comes from a leaked draft of the HHS budget that's set to go…

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