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Title X of the Public Health Service Act, [3] is a US government program dedicated to providing family planning services for those in need. But funding for Title X as a percentage of total public funding to family planning client services has steadily declined from 44% of total expenditures in 1980 to 12% in 2006.
In August 2015, Trump said he supported a government shutdown over federal funding for Planned Parenthood (which receives federal funding for the health services it provides to 2.7 million people annually, but is barred by federal law from using federal funds for abortion-related procedures). [183]
Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S., [12] but pro-choice advocates have argued that the organization's family planning services reduce the need for abortions; in the words of Megan Crepeau of the Chicago Tribune, Planned Parenthood could be "characterized as America's largest abortion preventer".
Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill to block Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, part of a years-long push by Republicans even as abortion remains illegal in the state.
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P lanned Parenthood, the nonprofit that provides sexual and reproductive healthcare services across the U.S., announced that it will be spending $40 million ahead of the 2024 election in an ...
The Democratic Senate leadership stated the Senate would only pass a "clean" funding bill without any restrictions on ACA. The government shutdown began on October 1. [18] [19] [20] Senate Republicans threatened to block appointments to relevant agencies, such as the Independent Payment Advisory Board [21] and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
While in 1971 the federal budget for Family Planning was only six million dollars, by 1972 it was almost 62 million. [3] In 1972, Congress passed a bill requiring a state's Medicaid program to cover family planning services for low income families. [9] Under this provision, the federal government covers 90% of the states' expenditures. [10]