Sentences with phrase «federal funding for abortion services»

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Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.

Sure you can say that the fact that federal funds pay for other services, allowing them to use the private money they have for abortions, but those other services are vital for limiting the number the abortions by providing women with contraception to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

A recent law prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood — which, among other services, is a major abortion provider (3 percent of their services are abortions)-- has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — legally, much of that can not be used on abortions.

While federal funds can not be used for abortions, Planned Parenthood reports that half of its patients use Medicaid to cover other services like birth control.

«The present language in the Senate bill provides a tremendous loophole for federal funds of abortion and will eventually expand abortion services,» he said.

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.

In 1987, the Reagan administration issued what came to be known as the «gag rule,» which barred recipients of federal family planning funds from counseling or referring patients for abortion, and which required physical and financial separation between contraceptive and abortion services.

This orchestrated effort led, predictably, to state and federal calls to end funding for all Planned Parenthood services — more than 95 % of which involve such things as contraception and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, rather than abortion.

Mike Pence of Indiana became the first lawmaker to call for a cutoff of Planned Parenthood's federal funds due to its abortion services.

Yet the federal funds in question do not cover abortion care, and thus none of Planned Parenthood's abortion services — which, nationwide make up roughly 3 % of its work — are paid for through the state's family - planning budget.

Under a series of laws including the Hyde amendment, none of the federal funds can be used for abortions, which account for 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.

Some critics of the Title X program oppose funding clinics that provide abortion, even if federal money goes for other services, such as treating sexually transmitted infections, said Susan Fogel, director of reproductive health at the National Health Law Program.

The June Coleman Fund is available for women seeking abortion services with a household income less than 250 % of the Federal Poverty Index, but not on a Maryland Medicaid plan.

Some politicians claim that ending support to Planned Parenthood is related to abortion services, knowing full well that because of the Hyde amendment there has been no federal funding of abortion services except for very narrow exceptions for nearly four decades — and that low - income women have been prevented full access to abortion as a result.

In 2017, four states found ways to limit certain family planning providers» eligibility for reimbursement under Medicaid, the federal - state program that contributes 75 % of all public funds spent on family planning services nationwide (see Public Funding for Family Planning and Abortion Services, FY 1980 &mdashservices nationwide (see Public Funding for Family Planning and Abortion Services, FY 1980 &mdashServices, FY 1980 — 2015).

(CNN) Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again sought to strike a softer tone on Planned Parenthood, paying tribute to its «very good work for millions of women» while also keeping up a threat to cut off federal funding to the organization if it continues to offer abortion services.