Sentences with phrase «family planning funds»

-- Two states moved to restrict eligibility for family planning funds for providers that have any association with abortion.

The videos set off a renewed wave of federal and state - level attacks on all kinds of safety - net family planning funds and providers.

The amendment, if passed, would have denied family planning services to millions of women, men and teens by restricting Title X federal family planning funds from going to Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers.

Today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) praised Congress for putting women's health first and passing the largest increase in Title X family planning funding in 35 years.

TRENTON, NJ — Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is deeply disappointed that the historic override of Governor Christie and the restoration of family planning funding in New Jersey has fallen short because of legislators who were not willing to stand up for women's health.

For instance, Michigan's 2016 budget bill reenacted a ban on state family planning funds from going to organizations that provide abortions, or offer abortion referrals or counseling.

For a chart of current laws and policies in each state, see State Family Planning Funding Restrictions.

This week, a new poll released by the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling showed that 75 percent of New Jerseyans support the restoration of family planning funding — a key campaign promise of Murphy's.

As New Jersey elected officials are gathering the votes needed to restore family planning funding in New Jersey, which has been eliminated in the state since 2010, a new poll shows a large majority of New Jersey registered voters support providing reproductive health services for low - income women.

The restriction on family planning funds was part of legislation providing more than $ 900 million in United Nations back dues the Clinton administration had requested.

The global gag rule prevents any organization receiving U.S. international family planning funds from providing counseling or referrals for abortion or advocating for access.

The new budget provides the largest increase in Title X family planning funding since 2000, a $ 16.8 million increase from the previous year.

Medicaid has become firmly established as the dominant source of public family planning funds in the United States, accounting for three - quarters of all such spending in FY 2015, as it did in FY 2010.

Last year, the Missouri Legislature recklessly rejected $ 8 million in federal family planning funds by creating an entirely new taxpayer - funded state program in order to skirt federal Medicaid laws and discriminate against Medicaid patients.

As with other campaigns to limit access to reproductive health care, states have had more success than Congress in actually passing and implementing policies restricting family planning funding.

On Friday, the Trump administration is filing a request to block abortion - providing facilities (or facilities that share space with an abortionist) from receiving federal family planning funding through the federal grant program.

Last week, language was inserted into Ohio's Mid-Biennium Review budget bill that would have restricted Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funds as well as funds from the Violence Against Women Act, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, the Infertility Prevention Project, and the Minority HIV / ADS Initiative.

According to the Office of Family Planning in the Department of Health and Human Services, Title X family planning funds provide services to approximately five million individuals through a network of more than 4,400 community based clinics, including safety - net providers like Planned Parenthood.

That worry about healthcare access was likely heightened by Trump's expansion of the «global gag rule,» which removes U.S. family planning funds from foreign groups that are involved in abortion services, even in referring patients to get them.

«The Independent Democratic Conference understands family planning funding is not a political football.

BOSTON — Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) and the Massachusetts Family Planning Association criticized Governor Charlie Baker's decision to cut $ 181,802 from the state's vital family planning funding.

Hopefully, congress will hear how much birth control impact our lives postively and not cut family planning funding.

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) sharply criticized the Tennessee General Assembly for passing a budget with an anti-women's health care amendment that would end family planning funding for Planned Parenthood patients in Tennessee.

New Jersey has experienced a sharp increase in the number of cases of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases — a 35 % increase since the last year family planning funding was included in the budget.

After campaigning heavily on the promise to restore much - needed funding for family planning services in the state, supporters and activists call on Murphy to be a champion for reproductive health care and restore family planning funding within the first 100 days of his administration.

Planned Parenthood Supporters Rally to Restore Family Planning Funding Just two weeks remain to override Governor Christie's veto

Chris Christie vetoed family planning funds eight times as governor of New Jersey — and, if elected president would block patients who rely on federal funds from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood.

Family Planning Funding Override Vote Falls Short: Legislators Not Willing to Stand Up for Women

Those measures included large cuts to state family planning funding progr...

The New Jersey Legislature voted to restore family planning funding numerous times during the previous administration.

Kentucky and South Carolina established an allocation system for distributing family planning funding that disadvantages private providers that focus on reproductive health services; sites operated by health departments and federally qualified health centers receive higher priority.

«The final budget bill is a positive step for preventive and reproductive health care, and includes the largest increase in family planning funding since 2000,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

Right as now - former president Barack Obama left office, he signed a bill that wrapped up Planned Parenthood's funding in Title IX legistlation, essentially keeping states from removing public family planning funds on the grounds of abortion.

On the campaign trail, she has avoided answering questions about her position on family planning funding — even in the face of the Trump administration's attacks on birth control coverage.

For example, the Missouri legislature eliminated the state's entire family planning program in 2003 after earlier attempts to prevent organizations that provide or refer for abortion services from receiving state family planning funds were repeatedly struck down by the courts.

Planned Parenthood urges President Bush to support the historic increase in Title X family planning funding by signing the budget bill.

Policymakers» attempts to restrict family planning funds and providers have been reinvigorated not just in Congress, but across many states.

On Friday, the Trump administration is filing a request to block abortion - providing facilities (or facilities that share space with an abortionist) from receiving federal family planning funding through the federal grant program.

OPA uses FPAR data to comply with accountability and federal performance requirements for Title X family planning funds as required by the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).

Hempstead, NY — A group of leaders, staff and volunteers from Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) rallied at the state Capitol today to urge support for family planning funding in the state's 2011 - 12 budget.

Planned Parenthood urges President Bush to support the historic increase in Title X family planning funding by signing the Labor - HHS - Education appropriations bill, and to eliminate funding for ineffective and medically inaccurate abstinence - only programs.

President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday that once again enables states to withhold federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

6 states have a priority system for the distribution of family planning funds — including federal funds distributed by a state agency — that disadvantages family planning centers or agencies associated with the provision of abortion services.

«Family planning supporters across the state are calling on our legislators to do the right thing and vote this month to override Governor Christie and restore family planning funding in New Jersey.»

«For decades, the global gag rule forced providers of women's health care in the developing world to choose between receiving family planning funding from the U.S. government and providing women with abortion access, information or counseling,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

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