Title X
Vulnerable Women and Contraception: Obama Turns Clock Back Nearly 100 Years
by Carole Joffe, University of California
December 13, 2011 - 10:40am (Print)
A critique of reproductive politics written in the 1970s about events in the ‘20s and ‘30s is remarkably relevant to today’s leading reproductive controversy: the Obama Administration’s overruling of the FDA decision to allow over-the-counter status of Plan B emergency contraception for young women under the age of seventeen.
House Republicans Propose a Massive Step Backwards in Sex Education and Women’s Health
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
October 3, 2011 - 4:02pm (Print)
In the name of fiscal responsibility, House Republicans suggest cutting teen pregnancy programs, the CDC budget, and Title X family planning. But, interestingly, they're bringing back funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
House Once Again Seeks to Eliminate Funding for Family Planning, Planned Parenthood and Other Health Services
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
September 29, 2011 - 8:14pm (Print)
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Just a day or two after launching a politically-motivated "investigation" of Planned Parenthood, House leadership released a draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill that would effectively eliminate federally-funded family planning programs.
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Creating Jobs? Too Hard. Florida Republican Instead Investigates Planned Parenthood
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
September 27, 2011 - 3:27pm (Print)
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You know the jobs and the deficit and the country's economic crisis? Florida Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns apparently does not. Instead he's spending taxpayer funding on a duplicative effort to "audit" Planned Parenthood.
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Kansas Ordered to Reinstate Funding for Planned Parenthood
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
August 30, 2011 - 7:30pm (Print)
The Associated Press reports that a federal judge ordered Kansas "to immediately resume funding a Planned Parenthood chapter on the same quarterly schedule that existed before a new state law stripped it of all federal funding for non-abortion services."
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Kansas Planned Parenthood to Close Due To Funding Hold Up
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
August 30, 2011 - 3:14pm (Print)
Although a judge ordered the state to give the group back its Title X funds, the money is still being tied up.
Federal Judge Grants Temporary Injunction Against Indiana Law De-funding Planned Parenthood
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
June 24, 2011 - 7:46pm (Print)
In an important victory for women in Indiana and elsewhere, a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of an Indiana law barring Planned Parenthood Indiana from participating in the state's Medicaid program.
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Cutting Family Planning Funding Makes No Sense
by Alyssa Funk
June 24, 2011 - 9:41am (Print)
Whether we're talking about health care, budgets or the economy, cutting publicly-funded family planning programs makes no sense.
Mitch Daniels Continues GOP's Use of Women's Bodies as Political Pawns
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
April 29, 2011 - 7:05pm (Print)
Indiana women: Your bodies are now officially political pawns. And Governor Daniels is calling check mate.
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Roundup: Manchin Introduces Title X Audit Reporting Bill
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
April 15, 2011 - 9:59am (Print)
DC Abortion Fund helps women whose Medicaid-funding for abortion was pulled at the last minute; Florida senate wants to subject Medicaid funding for contraception to religious refusals; and Sen. Manchin thinks showing that no Title X money is spent on abortion will solve something.
