Sentences with phrase «x national family planning»

The Title X national family planning program's ability to yield significant health and economic benefits for women, families and society relies on a diverse network of safety - net providers — a network that should include, but can not be limited to, FQHC sites.

Moreover, the Title X program has long set the bar for family planning care, helping providers to deliver high - quality, confidential and affordable family planning services to those in greatest need (see «Why We Can not Afford to Undercut the Title X National Family Planning Program,» 2017).7 Providers that receive Title X funding are more likely to offer women the full range of contraceptive method options, and to minimize barriers to starting those methods.1 They also must ensure confidentiality for all clients.

Arizona now requires the state to compete for funding under the Title X national family planning program; if that application is successful, the state would bar funding for private providers that focus on reproductive health services.

Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3

Hasstedt K, Why we can not afford to undercut the Title X national family planning program, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2017, 20:20 — 23, https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/01/why-we-cannot-afford-undercut-title-x-national-family-planning-program.

Through birth control and contraceptive counseling, Title X the national family planning program helps to prevent 1.1 million unintended pregnancies each year.

Last month, more than 30 leading medical and public health organizations, including ACOG and NMA, expressed their support for continued funding of Planned Parenthood and the Title X National Family Planning Program in two letters sent to Congressional leadership.

As the nation's leading women's health care provider and advocate, Planned Parenthood strongly opposes the funding cuts to the Title X National Family Planning Program in the FY 2012 appropriations package that just passed the US House of Representatives.

Congress established the Title X national family planning program in 1970; two years later, it revisited the issue, guaranteeing that family planning services would be covered under all states» Medicaid programs.

This makes the fact that funding for the Title X national family planning program has decreased by 10 % since 2010, even as need for publicly funded care increased by 5 %, simply unacceptable.»

• eliminating funding for the Title X National Family Planning Program, which provides access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other family planning services to nearly five million low - income women each year

Title X — supported center: A site that receives federal funding through the Title X national family planning program.

· eliminates funding for the Title X National Family Planning Program, which provides access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other family planning services to five million low - income women each year;

The Title X National Family Planning Program is a vital component of this country's health care safety net and one of our nation's most effective programs in reducing unintended pregnancies and providing women's health care to those who need it the most.

In addition, House members are planning to host a Special Order Hour on Tuesday evening, to focus on the House leadership's attempts to eliminate the Title X national family planning program and to strip all federal funds from Planned Parenthood.

- a $ 2 million cut to the Title X National Family Planning Program that provides funding for birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventive health care for low - income women, subject to across - the - board cuts

This concerted effort seeks to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from state and federal funding streams, including the Title X national family planning program and Medicaid, and carries the potential to deprive women of the contraceptive services and counseling, STI testing and treatment, and breast and cervical cancer screenings that Planned Parenthood provides.

Moreover, the health and economic benefits made possible by a robust Title X network have been well documented (see «Why We Can not Afford to Undercut the Title X National Family Planning Program,» 2017).

This includes efforts by Congress and the Trump administration to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through federal programs — including Medicaid and the Title X national family planning program — as well as attempts to eliminate or reshape Title X, based on the premise that the program indirectly subsidizes abortion.

Antiabortion policymakers have escalated their attempts to bar Planned Parenthood from publicly funded programs, including the Title X national family planning program.

Medicaid, the Title X national family planning program, and state and local funds all help provide affordable contraceptive care to women who need it.

Guttmacher's findings are detailed in a new Guttmacher Policy Review analysis that outlines why Planned Parenthood health centers, as well as providers supported by the Title X national family planning program, are essential to the nation's family planning safety net.

«Why We Can not Afford to Undercut the Title X National Family Planning Program,» by Kinsey Hasstedt

In order to stay open and serving their communities, these health centers rely on various public funding streams, including the Title X national family planning program, Medicaid, and other federal and state funds.

The most notable example is the Title X national family planning program.

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«After nearly 50 years of success for Title X, the Trump administration is trying to undermine it by shifting to a narrow and ideological vision of how people should live their lives,» said Clare Coleman, CEO of the national family planning association.

Provided critical data to support the creation of Title X, the U.S. national family planning program.

The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM) issues recommendations and a framework for a national strategy to reduce infant mortality and reaffirms need for continued federal investment in Medicaid; Title Vl MCH Services Block Grant; Healthy Start; Title X Family Planning Program; Community Health Centers; Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, and WIC.

The anti-choice House leadership in Congress has introduced various pieces of legislation that attack women's health, including a proposal to bar Planned Parenthood from providing health services through federal health programs like Medicaid, as well as the elimination of the national family planning program (Title X).

Members of Congress joined today with Planned Parenthood Federation of America to speak out against the House leadership's assault on women's health, including proposals to completely eliminate the National Family Planning Program (Title X) and pass the Pence bill to bar any federal funds going to Planned Parenthood for health care of any kind.

«Planned Parenthood applauds President Obama for calling for an increased investment today in an essential women's health care program, the national family planning program, Title X.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman discussed the devastating impact the proposals to eliminate the national family planning program (Title X), which provides five million women preventive care each year, and the proposal to bar Planned Parenthood from providing health care services through any federal program — including family planning, cancer screenings, and well women care — would have on women in their local communities.

«Representative Mike Pence's bill to defund Planned Parenthood and his support to eliminate the national family planning program (Title X) is bad policy and bad politics.

In two letters to Congressional leadership sent this week, more than 30 leading medical and public health organizations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Nurses Association, expressed their support for continued funding of Planned Parenthood and the national family planning program (Title X).

The House is expected to vote Thursday to completely eliminate funding for the National Family Planning Program (Title X), as well as pass an amendment from Rep. Mike Pence (R - Ind.)

With the aim of shutting Planned Parenthood down completely, national «defund» legislation would close health center doors to at least 60 % of Planned Parenthood's patients — those who use public programs like Medicaid (the government - funded insurance plan for people with low incomes) and Title X (the government - funded family planning program, which helps people with low incomes).

The national family planning program, Title X, connects people with critical health care that helps them stay healthy, plan their pregnancies, and plan their futures.