Sentences with phrase «funding abortion services»

The federal government is legally barred from funding abortion services.

Yet conservative opponents of family planning, including TRL and the amendment sponsors, refuse to acknowledge that none of the federal money that the state has traditionally used to fund women's reproductive health care is used to fund abortion services.

It suggests that, ultimately, no amount of separation between a program's publicly funded family planning activities and its privately funded abortion services will be sufficient to satisfy the most extreme wing of the antiabortion movement.

Not exact matches

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.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.

If Planned Parenthood was distributing contraception services legitimately and fraudulently claiming for abortion services (really just dollars for abortion follow - ups), then the inflated billing would weaken the correlation between contraception and government funding.

Allegedly, Planned Parenthood sought government funding for abortion by creating and billing for fraudulent services - which billing would substantially increase Planned Parenthood's revenue per head aborted.

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.

A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

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.

In the January 2006 edition he examines a piece written by Ann Furedi, the director of the UK's principle abortion provider the, partly Government funded, BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service).

On the other hand, he did tell the DN that he would end Medicaid funding for abortion and eliminate the pro-abortion aspects of family planning services.

The cruelly ideological Reagan - era policy places restrictions on US funding for foreign NGOs providing abortion services, or even information about terminations or about other reproductive health services like contraception or HIV prevention.

At 10:30 a.m., Concerned Clergy for Choice members hold a press conference expressing support for access to contraception, safe and legal abortion, and the funding to provide these basic medical services, LCA Press Room (104), LOB, Albany.

«When the Affordable Care Act passed, there was bipartisan agreement that taxpayer funding not be used for abortion services,» said Erin O'Connor, speaking for Katko.

Grantees will be banned from performing abortions — regardless of the funding source — at the same facilities that provide Title X services.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

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

Tucked away in that legislation was language that would have stripped federal funding to any entity that provided abortion services.

For instance, a global gag rule mandates that groups getting U.S. funds can not provide counseling or referrals for abortion services.

The research was supported by funding from a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant; the Dr. Mary P. Dole Medical Fellowship from the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association; and the Charlotte Ellerston Social Service Postdoctoral Fellowship in Abortion and Reproductive Health.

To take another example from the abortion context, the Court has allowed the government to make funding to family - planning services conditional on their promise not to provide information about abortion.

These services are funded by donations, not the taxes that are spent on Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider.

In Lexogest Inc v Manitoba, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that the Manitoba Heath Services Commission acted outside its jurisdiction by setting up a funding policy which covered abortion services if they were provided in hospitals, but not if they occurred in other health Services Commission acted outside its jurisdiction by setting up a funding policy which covered abortion services if they were provided in hospitals, but not if they occurred in other health services if they were provided in hospitals, but not if they occurred in other health centres.

The lobby group Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada hailed the decision in a press release, but demanded that New Brunswick also repeal «a second restrictive regulation that denies public funding to private clinics providing medically required services.

Tom Price, President Trump's pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, already has an Obamacare replacement bill, and it «prevents federal funds from going to health - care plans that cover abortions.»

Still, politicians in 11 states have voted to block public funds from Planned Parenthood because its services include abortion.

In so doing, he's stood up for reproductive - health patients» right to privacy, fought for the dignity of the LGBTQ community, protected the right to receive an abortion after 20 weeks, and fought to keep state funding for preventive health - care services provided through Planned Parenthood Arizona.

Title X grants account for 10 percent of the public funding clinics receive for family planning services, with Medicaid picking up 75 percent, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

Despite a prohibition on the use of Title X funds for abortion services that has been in place since the program's inception, antiabortion policymakers have targeted the program as indirectly supporting abortion; they have repeatedly sought to restrict Title X funds from going to entities associated with abortion, often specifically Planned Parenthood.

Proponents of such restrictions are ultimately seeking to make abortion inaccessible for U.S. women, and so are seeking to shutter Planned Parenthood health centers and any safety - net health center providing publicly funded family planning services that additionally offers abortions (using other funds), or is affiliated with an abortion provider.

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 is $ 27.8 million more than the FY 2006 - 2007 funding level, and it is estimated that it will provide services for an additional 139,000 women and will help to avert 24,000 unintended pregnancies and 10,000 abortions.

«The defunding provision goes further and refuses to fund services that are wholly unrelated to abortions,» the judge wrote in his decision.

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.

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.

Federal law already blocks federal funding from going to abortion services.

Without publicly funded contraceptive services, the U.S. rates of unintended pregnancy, unplanned birth and abortion would have each been 68 % higher, and the teen pregnancy rate would have been 73 % higher.

Sonfield A and Gold RB, Public Funding for Family Planning, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980 — 2010, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2012.

This proposal will likely pass the House of Representatives, despite the fact that these funds go to public health programs with wide bipartisan support and do not involve abortion services.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott in March signed into law the measure that would end all state funding for preventive health care services at any clinics that also provide abortions.

Figure: Public Funding Sources Sonfield A and Gold RB, Public Funding for Family Planning, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980 — 2010, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2012.

Abortion - rights advocates also argue that redirecting funding to other clinics could limit lower - income Americans» access to family planning services, as other clinics may not have the capacity to handle the new customers, for example.

This proposal passed the House of Representatives, even though these funds maintain health programs with wide bipartisan support and do not include funds for abortion services.

This was their actual motive and it can be seen from anti-abortion politicians» response: These widely discredited videos gave politicians who have always wanted to ban safe and legal abortion the fuel they needed to try to cut funding for women's health programs and block patients from accessing services at Planned Parenthood health centers.

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.