Despite Planned Parenthood's propaganda, ending taxpayer
funding of abortion providers will have little impact on a woman's access to healthcare.
It also prohibits state
funding of any abortion provider for preventive health care services like cancer screening, contraception services and STD testing and treatment.
Not exact matches
At the time, 13 states had defunded Planned Parenthood by keeping Title IX
funds from going to the organization, which is the nation's largest
provider of on - demand
abortions by far.
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.
One possible step forward is that
abortion providers — as long as they are legally allowed in this country — should have to be independent corporations that only perform
abortions and receive no federal
funding, with regular inspections and investigations both financial and health - related, and the passing
of new laws which more strictly regulate their practice.
The ERLC has offered six pro-life priorities for action by President - elect Trump and Congress in 2017, including the nomination and confirmation
of a pro-life successor to the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, a permanent ban on all federal
funding of abortion and the defunding
of Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1
abortion provider.
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).
Second, President Obama signaled his intention to repeal a rule promulgated in the last days
of the Bush administration that codified previous law ensuring that no health care
providers at institutions receiving federal
funds should be discriminated against for refusing to participate in
abortion or sterilization procedures.
He also supports federal
funding of Planned Parenthood and other
abortion providers, leading Planned Parenthood to refer to him as «the REAL pro-choice candidate for governor.»
In 2015, the contraceptive care delivered by Title X —
funded providers helped women avoid 822,000 unintended pregnancies, which would have resulted in 387,000 unplanned births and 278,000
abortions.3 Without the contraceptive care provided by these health centers, the U.S. rates
of unintended pregnancy and
abortion would have been 31 % higher, and the teen unintended pregnancy rate would have been 44 % higher (see chart 1).
Socially conservative policymakers are also seeking to wholly eliminate or undermine the Title X family planning program, by directing Title X
funding to FQHC sites while excluding
providers focused on reproductive health, some
of which also offer
abortions with separate
funding.
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.
States that restrict or bar the allocation
of state family planning
funds to certain types
of family planning or
abortion providers
Cruz has been nearly monomaniacal in his fervor against
abortion — even attempting to shut the government down again in 2015 over federal
funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest
provider of reproductive health care.
Arizona, for example, passed a law in 2016 that allows the state's Medicaid program to exclude any
provider that receives any type
of public
funding and also provides
abortion, or is affiliated with a
provider that does so.
Last week, over protests from thousands
of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted Restriction
of Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block
funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers in Ohio.
The Lege is renewing its efforts to punish the
abortion provider this session by threatening to create tiers for breast and cervical cancer
funding in a way that leaves Planned Parenthood last in line — the consequences
of which are predicted to be dire.
The third prohibits the use
of public
funds to train
abortion providers at state universities.
In response to a pair
of related inquiries made last year by Deuell and HHSC Commissioner Tom Suehs, Attorney General Greg Abbott opined that the state could keep Planned Parenthood from providing any WHP services — by blocking Medicaid
funds for any health care
provider that's «affiliated» with an
abortion care
provider, even if it doesn't provide
abortion services itself (see «Women's Health: Ideology First!
Providers that offer
abortion services or are affiliated with a
provider that does so would be ineligible, as would any entity that makes
abortion referrals — a direct violation
of the federal regulations governing the Title X program, which require Title X —
funded sites to offer nondirective pregnancy - options counseling and referral.
Then, as now, some
of the biggest
providers of reproductive healthcare around the world — groups such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International — decided to forego U.S.
funding rather than limit the services they provide and risk exposing more women to unsafe
abortions.
Yet, in spite
of these alarming statistics around cancer and STDs in New Jersey, on Monday Kim Guadagno stated that she would not restore
funding for preventive reproductive health services — because
providers like Planned Parenthood also offer
abortion services.
«I would assume that most Americans would be surprised, if not shocked, to learn that the largest
abortion provider in America is also the largest recipient
of federal
funding under Title X,» Rep. Mike Pence (R - IN) said in January when he introduced legislation to strip Planned Parenthood
of its federal
funding.
Until 1987, when the Reagan administration issued the so - called gag rule, that provision consistently had been interpreted as a ban on the use
of Title X
funds to pay for
abortions, and the federal regulations governing Title X did not otherwise reflect an antiabortion animus toward
providers.
These limits exist alongside the already burdensome Hyde Amendment, which bars federal Medicaid coverage
of abortion in most circumstances; 35 states decline to extend state Medicaid
funds to cover
abortion beyond very limited circumstances.19 This increasingly restricted environment creates severe disincentives for insurers to contract with
abortion providers — and specialized
abortion providers in particular — and for
providers to accept insurance if contracts are offered.
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 — 2015).
Since the release
of a series
of deceptively edited videos in 2015 seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood,
abortion opponents have mounted a sustained campaign to deny public family planning
funding to providers who also offer abortion services (Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to
funding to
providers who also offer
abortion services (Recent
Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to
Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to Come).
The Trump administration and many social conservatives in Congress and across state governments have put federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) front and center in their attempts to pull public
funding from other types
of safety - net
providers — specifically, those that provide
abortion - related services.
Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest single
provider of abortions, yet it gets millions
of dollars in federal
funding with which to provide other services.