Sentences with phrase «funding of abortion services»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.»
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Gallup poll found that 57 percent of voters oppose «laws prohibiting health clinics that provide abortion services from receiving any federal funds.»
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.
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.
In fact, the vast majority of the 90 - year - old nonprofit's services are dedicated to preventative health care, and less than 5 % of its Texas operations — not supported by government funds — involve legally protected abortion services.
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!
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.
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.
In Congress, Pence was at the forefront of a conservative effort to block any federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood because the organization — which provides women with cancer screenings, counseling services and tests — also provides abortions.
As of today, these groups will be banned from all global health funding from the U.S. government if they also happen to provide counseling, referrals, services, or advocate for safe and legal abortion — even with their own funding.
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.
The 1980s meant economic decline in western Pennsylvania, reductions in federal funding, renewed opposition to family planning and abortion services, and the onset of AIDS.
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.
In a deceptive attempt to link this program to abortion, an amendment seeks to bar any agencies that provide «abortion services» from receiving state funds — but it includes referral in the definition of abortion services.
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.
The anniversary of the benefit comes just as the Guttmacher Institute releases new data showing that giving women access to affordable birth control, through publicly funded family planning services, helped prevent 2.2 million unintended pregnancies in 2010, which would have resulted in 1.1 million unplanned births and 760,000 abortions.
It also prohibits state funding of any abortion provider for preventive health care services like cancer screening, contraception services and STD testing and treatment.
In a deceptive attempt to link this program to abortion, the provision seeks to bar any agencies that provide «abortion services» from receiving state funds — but it includes referral in the definition of abortion services.
She is proud to have won the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Action fund, and has promised to always defend what she calls essential health and reproductive care, including the services Planned Parenthood provides for women, such as access to legal abortion.
Gold RB and Daley D, Public funding of family planning services, sterilization and abortion services, 1990, Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, 23 (5): 204 — 211.
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.
Arizona, Minnesota and North Dakota enacted laws to cut off public funding to family planning agencies that provided abortion services with private dollars, regardless of how separated the abortion activities were from the family planning activities.
Last year, Rep. David Vitter (R - LA) sought to attach an amendment to pending appropriations legislation that would have denied federal family planning dollars, under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, to otherwise - qualified community - based nonprofit agencies that use their non-Title X funds to perform abortions.
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).