What does Title X prohibit?

It funds services including contraception, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and breast and cervical cancer screenings. Title X regulations prohibit funds from being used for abortion care, though health centers that provide abortions have received Title X funds.

What is the Title X rule?

The rule: Removes the requirement of strict physical separation between Title X activities and abortion care, an impractical requirement that was designed to force out clinics that provided, or were affiliated with, abortion services.

What are Title X funds used for?

Title X is the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services.

Is Planned Parenthood part of Title X?

Planned Parenthood clinics and affiliates receive about 60 million annually through the federal programs, serving 40 percent of all Title X patients.

What does the gag rule do?

The global gag rule prohibits foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who receive U.S. global health assistance from providing legal abortion services or referrals, while also barring advocacy for abortion law reform—even if it’s done with the NGO’s own, non-U.S. funds.

What is the purpose of family planning?

Family planning and, more specifically, contraception, can protect teenagers from the physical, emotional and financial burden of unplanned pregnancy. When a pregnancy is unplanned, ill-timed, or too closely spaced, it affects the mother’s health which, in turn, affects the health and safety of her unborn child.

Is birth control federally funded?

Almost nine in ten (86%) people say it is important for the federal government to provide funding for reproductive health services, including family planning and birth control for lower-income women, and 69% say they support continued federal Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services (Figure 7).

Why is Title IX controversial?

Title IX has been a source of controversy in part due to claims that the OCR’s current interpretation of Title IX, and specifically its three-prong test of compliance, is no longer faithful to the anti-discrimination language in Title IX’s text, and instead discriminates against men and has contributed to the reduction …