In 2010, in his first budget after taking office, former Governor Chris Christie eliminated a longstanding line item in the state budget that provided funding for
preventive reproductive health care services in New Jersey, including lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, affordable birth control, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and HIV / AIDS.
(CNN)-- Changes to a decades - old federal program that provides birth control and
other reproductive health care services to millions of low - income people each year prompted lawsuits that were filed against the Trump administration Wednesday.
Ensuring that women can exercise their reproductive rights and access
affordable reproductive health care services will reflect a society that values women and provides them the opportunity to fully engage in the labor market.
New York State law protects the privacy of all citizens, including teens, who
receive reproductive health care services, including birth control, HIV testing, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, prenatal care and abortion.
The bill includes measures to fully fund the nation's family planning program (Title X), expand access to
reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other prescription drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors to access emergency contraception (EC) in the emergency room, improve public awareness about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.
This funding for family planning services, which was repeatedly vetoed by Governor Christie despite the passionate efforts of legislative champions, supports preventive
reproductive health care services like cancer screenings, birth control, and STD testing and treatment at New Jersey's family planning providers, including Planned Parenthood health centers and other local community providers.
Legislative activity: PPAV's legislative team works with members of the Virginia General Assembly to introduce legislation to protect and
expand reproductive health care services and reproductive rights, and to defeat legislation that will restrict access to health care.
Each year, Planned Parenthood health centers provide millions of patients essential
critical reproductive health care services, including birth control, cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, safe and legal abortion, and more.
At Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, our health centers are staffed by skilled clinicians who
provide reproductive health care services to all who need high - quality, personalized, and expert care.
The 15 - member committee, a federally mandated body that reviews and makes recommendations regarding agency rules that affect Medicaid programs, voted unanimously (with one abstention and one absence) to allow the agency to go forward with redefining the word «affiliate» in an effort to squeeze the state's Planned Parenthood clinics out of state - funded
reproductive health care services for low - income women.
All young people deserve access to safe and confidential health care, including sexual and
reproductive health care services at school - based health centers (SBHCs), and in foster care and shelters.
Every year, more than 90,000 individuals visit Planned Parenthood in New Jersey for a wide range of
preventive reproductive health care services, such as lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, affordable birth control, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections including HIV.
But in an interview with WAMC later in the evening, Faso said he does not favor defunding Planned Parenthood and prefers the «status quo» when it comes to the organization that provides
reproductive health care services.
«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive
reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»
As a voice for reproductive freedom, PPNYC supports legislation and policies to ensure that all New Yorkers will have access to the full range of
reproductive health care services and information.
Americans — across party lines — support commonsense policies to increase access to the full - range of
reproductive health care services and information — and they want to keep politicians out of a woman's personal health care decisions.
The proposed rule change was welcomed by Planned Parenthood, which relies on Title X to provide
reproductive health care services to 1.5 million patients across the country, making it the medical provider for about a third of the patients served by the grant program.
We work to ensure that family planning and
reproductive health care services are available and accessible to everyone who wants and needs them.
«However, we are disappointed that the budget does not remove all restrictions on women's ability to access the full range of
reproductive health care services.
Today, Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of reproductive health care in Orange County, offering a full range of
reproductive health care services to women, men, teens, and families at nine health centers in Orange and San Bernardino counties.