Read Patrick Fagan's «scientific» research about marriage and the ill effects of divorce, and his recommendations for beefing up the Marriage Initiative by stealing funds from TANF, child support enforcement, and
family planning programs:
Throughout this report, we use the term «family planning client services» to refer to the package of direct patient care services provided through
family planning programs to clients receiving reversible contraceptives or sterilization services.
Second, stepped - up attacks on
family planning programs and providers threaten the future of postabortion contraception.
Our report synthesizes the most up - to - date data and analyses to illustrate the current and future importance of
family planning programs and the safety - net providers at the heart of this effort.
The boost in dollars to crisis pregnancy centers is even harder to swallow for women's health advocates when considering the lack of added substantial investment in
family planning programs.
He has pledged to restore and expand funding for desperately needed
family planning programs and services.
In his first budget proposal to Congress, President Trump completely eliminated funding for international
family planning programs.
Opponents of family planning and reproductive health don't just want to limit access in the U.S., they want to slash U.S. support for international
family planning programs.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauds President Barack Obama for living up to his commitment to supporting women's health and investing in commonsense proposals to expand
family planning programs.
In July, the Trump administration abruptly cut grant funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and shortened the grant periods for Title X
family planning programs, creating uncertainty that can impact the effectiveness and viability of sex education and reproductive health care programs that people depend on.
He fought successfully for development of federally funded domestic and international
family planning programs and also helped block the efforts of demographers and politicians who urged coercive methods to halt population growth.
«As the nation's leading advocate and provider of women's health care, including reproductive health services, we see every day that the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs and ensure more women and families have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education programs,» said Richards.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, Senate Appropriations Committee members passed bills protecting access to basic health care for women and families in the United States and around the world, and blocking many of the dangerous attacks on women's health programs such as the Title X family planning, teen pregnancy prevention programs, and international
family planning programs being waged by the Trump Administration and extremists in the House of Representatives.
The House FY 2017 State and Foreign Operations bill, expected to be voted on in Committee next week, also includes severe cuts to international
family planning programs and bans a U.S. contribution to UNFPA, the leading agency working to address the reproductive health needs of women in Zika - affected countries.
Dr. Berelson was the originator of the first periodical to disseminate results of family planning studies to the international community; the prime force in organizing an international conference on
family planning programs; and the creator of a cooperative international postpartum hospital program to provide family planning information and services.
In addition to singling out Planned Parenthood for the first time in history, it also eliminates funding for international
family planning programs.
Includes Expanding Medicaid
Family Planning Programs To Prevent Unintended Pregnancies and Strengthen Women's Health Care
This policy, combined with Trump's proposal to eliminate all funding for international
family planning programs and UNFPA, leaves the the world's most vulnerable women to suffer and undermines years of efforts to improve women's health worldwide.
For nearly a century, Planned Parenthood has advocated a prevention first agenda by investing in prevention and
family planning programs that help prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, and keep women healthy and safe.
«Beyond affordable birth control, there is a need to invest in
family planning programs that promote prevention and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies by ensuring every woman has access to health care and every teen gets the information she needs to make responsible decisions.»
«As the nation's leading advocate and provider of women's reproductive health care, every day we see that the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs and ensure more women have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care,» said Richards.
«The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education programs,» said Richards.
Moreover, antiabortion policymakers have often used this argument as cover to attack publicly funded
family planning programs, a campaign that has made a high - profile return in the last two years.
Family planning programs largely escaped steep budget cuts in 2012.
«The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care.»
Antiabortion state policymakers and members of Congress alike should heed this reality and, instead of trying to tear down the safety net, turn to bolstering publicly funded
family planning programs and providers nationwide.
In six (FL, GA, MI, MN, WA and WI),
family planning programs sustained deep cuts, although generally in line with decreases adopted for other health programs.
Researchers looked at fertility trends among women who qualified for birth control through the state's public
family planning programs in the two years before and after Texas lawmakers booted Planned Parenthood from its payroll.
The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education programs.»
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the United Nations Foundation (UNF), Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL), and more than 100 constituents honored Senator Dick Durbin (D - IL) today for his leadership in supporting funding for international
family planning programs with the second annual International Family Planning Hero award.
The government saves $ 7 in Medicaid - related costs for every dollar invested in publicly funded
family planning programs like Title X.
But none of
these family planning programs pay for abortion care, which the law already prohibits spending federal money on.
«The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the number of abortions, and promote healthy families is to invest in
family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care,» said Richards.
«The House leadership's proposal to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and Title X, gut teen pregnancy prevention community grants, and undermine critical international
family planning programs is bad policy, bad politics, and flat out immoral.
«President Obama's budget makes critical investments to expand women's access to health care at home and abroad through Medicaid, Title X, and international
family planning programs.
Planned Parenthood applauds the Senate leadership for proposing an alternative Continuing Resolution to H.R. 1, which invests in programs that save money and save lives, including
family planning programs.
Janek K et al., Presentation to Senate Committee on Health and Human Services: Texas women's health and
family planning programs, 2014, < http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/news/presentations/2014/022014-womens-health.pdf >, accessed May 16, 2014.
Ignoring calls to increase funding levels for those fiscally responsible
family planning programs, the appropriations bill instead increases funding streams for abstinence - only programs that have been proven ineffective.
People's
Family Planning programs include education, contraceptive methods, and follow - up information for both adolescents and adults.
Voluntary
family planning programs have proved effective in lowering fertility rates.
When Ayatollah Khomeini assumed leadership in Iran in 1979, he immediately dismantled the well - established
family planning programs and instead advocated large families.
Officials at the U.N. Population Fund, which supports
family planning programs around the world, said the new projections illustrated the importance of rich countries continuing to help poorer ones to ensure that couples have no more children than they want.
Mutual consent based on proper education and factual information (an average of three child - births per woman leads inevitably to population explosion, and that is a mathematical fact) is, I believe, from a humanitarian view, a much better option than activizing centralized population control measures or even highly inefrfective
family planning programs.
In its piece, the group noted, «Even Amnesty International fears the campaign will «return to coercive
family planning programs.
Here's a related thought experiment: Recently, in tracking discussions of including forest conservation and climate - friendly farming practices in carbon - credit markets, I mused on whether
family planning programs should be able to get into the carbon business.
They range the gamut from
family planning programs to green roofs to plant - based diets.
The British have made
family planning programs one of their top priorities.
They don't think
family planning programs work.
J.B.: One reason is that African governments have neglected to invest in
family planning programs.
Pope John Paul II condemned government - controlled
family planning programs Thursday, saying couples have a fundamental right to decide the size of their families free from state coercion.