Sentences with phrase «funding of any abortion provider»

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.

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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 tofunding to providers who also offer abortion services (Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is toFunding 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.