Federal family planning laws already ban direct funding of organizations that use abortion as a family planning method.
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Many states bar "abortion providers" or "private family planning clinics" from receiving state family planning funds, not just Planned Parenthood.
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"If you cannot work then opt for family planning but if you can work hard why family planning?" he said.
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The $200 million program is for family planning, and the administration&aposs position, it&aposs that abortion is not family planning.
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While the central government imposes family planning rules nationwide through thousands of family planning offices, it gives leeway to some regions.
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UNFPA partners on family planning with "the Chinese government agency responsible for implementing China's coercive family planning policies," said a State Department official.
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The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, a membership organization of Title X family planning clinics, also said it would consider litigation.
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The rule prohibits funding programs where abortion is a method of family planning and referrals for abortion as a method of family planning.
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If the Trump administration succeeds this year in defunding Planned Parenthood, slashing funding for family planning or turning Title X into a promoter of abstinence and failed natural family planning methods, millions of women could be denied access to their family planning provider.
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The people of Aroostook County, where Maine Family Planning operates three clinics, could be forced to drive hours to find cheap family planning services.
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The Quality Family Planning (QFP) recommendations summarize clinical recommendations and provide an outline of what a family planning visit should look like, Sandusky says.
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The other source of funding is grants, largely through the Title X Family Planning Program — the only domestic grant program dedicated to family planning.
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Title X is a federal grant program that helps family planning groups "offer a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services (including natural family planning methods, infertility services and planning for adolescents)," according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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International family planning assistance has catalyzed smaller families through improved access to voluntary family planning in South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil and many other countries.
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Horvath-Cosper is working at MedStar as part of the Family Planning Fellowship, a national program that trains doctors in family planning and abortion practices.
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The state's budget for family planning was cut by two-thirds forcing 82 family planning clinics to close -- a third of which were Planned Parenthood centers.
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The Title X Family Planning Program is the nation's program for affordable birth control and other family planning health care, such as STD testing and treatment.
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The United States government made family planning part of the War on Poverty, and it made support of family planning part of international foreign aid in the 1960s.
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The Title X Family Planning Program has kept those who depend on the program health for nearly 50 years, the gold standard for patient-centered family planning care.
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Sabotaging responsible family planning and cutting poor women off from access to family planning only results in more unplanned pregnancies and more abortions — including dangerous, high risk abortions.
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The revised regulations to the Title X family planning program prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from talking about abortion with patients or referring patients to abortion providers.
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Medicaid has special rules for family planning services which state that people with this insurance have their choice of family planning provider, so long as the provider takes Medicaid.
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For them, safety net family planning providers are a major source of care, including almost 4,85033 health centers that are supported by the Title X federal family planning program.
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Traditionally, it has barred any organization that performs abortions or discusses abortion as a family planning option from getting US foreign aid meant to fund family planning and contraception.
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The Title X Family Planning Program was originally created by Richard Nixon in 1970 in order to ensure that adequate, affordable family planning services were available to all Americans.
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Its family planning program is now entirely state-funded and excludes abortion providers or clinics associated with abortion providers from participating, even if they're just offering similar family planning services.
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Johnsen adds that 11 of these states have Medicaid Family Planning Waivers, which allow women with low incomes to qualify specifically for family planning coverage, rather than full health insurance.
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"It is not only chilling effect on family planning," Dr. Mengistu Asnake, the Ethiopia country representative for Pathfinder International, a global family planning organization, tells me via Skype from Addis Ababa.
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What they're saying: "If the program refers patients to abortion providers for family planning services, then that program is logically one 'where abortion is a method of family planning,'" the panel wrote.
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The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, and three Planned Parenthood affiliates are fighting to preserve the Title X Family Planning Program, established in 703.
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But new Trump administration regulations, part of the administration's broader war on family planning and women's health, curb access to birth control and are causing chaos in family planning clinics across America.
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"The notion that you would withhold information from a patient does not uphold or preserve their dignity," said Jessica Marcella of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents family planning clinics.
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The waiver "discriminates against trusted, high-quality family planning providers relied upon by countless poor and low-income Texans," said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
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He was also co-chairman of the Family Planning 2020 Reference Group, an international organization that looks to provide family planning services for 120 million more women and girls by the year 2020.
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Humanitarian programs, including international family planning, could face draconian cuts.
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But on the family planning side, the Skaggses still struggle.
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"Both partners should share responsibility in family planning," she says.
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Little Rock Family Planning, the independent provider, would stay open.
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Li Bin oversees the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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On September 9, Magufuli expressed his doubts about family planning.
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" Google Maps lists the clinic as a "family planning center.
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We are the largest provider of family planning in Madagascar.
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We are known across the country for providing family planning.
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"Even if family planning stopped, habits die hard," he said.
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Volunteers from Syria's family planning agency entertain children with games.
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Those policies include sex education, birth control, and family planning.
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Family planning services are part of Obamacare's preventive care strategy.
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The proposal included a recommendation to eliminate family planning assistance.
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It was a time of harsh family planning enforcement in their area, when married women were required to have four annual pregnancy tests to ensure they didn't become pregnant outside of family planning guidelines.
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Family planning clinics that refer patients for abortions or share locations or finances with abortion providers will be ineligible for funding through a decades-old federal family planning program, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.
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" According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, assisted reproductive technologies are denied to "single women and couples who are not in line with the nation's population and family planning regulations.
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Trump on Monday reinstated a policy that requires foreign NGOs who receive U.S. global family planning funds to certify that they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.
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" She added: "Even in this family planning work — we've only been at it since 2012 — but there are over 20 million women who voluntarily have gotten family planning access, who wouldn't have had it otherwise.
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Trump this year reinstated a policy that requires foreign NGOs which receive U.S. global family planning funds to certify that they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.
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But vasectomies are very much a vital part of family planning.
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We are asking Medicare to cover a comprehensive family planning session.
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The government launched family-planning campaigns and encouraged sterilisation and abortion.
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They heard some local myths that family planning makes women barren.
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Instead, the announcement stresses the inclusion of natural family planning methods.
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Are you a female college student who needs family planning services?
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Access to family planning is a crucial part of global health.
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But what constitutes "family planning" is a political point of contention.
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Family planning services are a mandatory benefit under Medicaid, Jamieson said.
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By law, the family planning program does not pay for abortions.
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S. funding, its U.S. funds went toward contraception and family planning.
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Obria even refuses to provide its family-planning patients with condoms.
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Family Health Options Kenya is that country's oldest family-planning clinic.
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There would be many family planning officers to take us away.
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He has proposed eliminating or drastically cutting international family planning funding.
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A second under-addressed area of women's health is family planning.
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It provides grants to family planning clinics serving low-income households.
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The Trump administration, however, is hostile to international family planning assistance.
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There is a "family," planning a wacky, ridiculous, high-octane heist.
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Both have been solid defenders of family planning and birth control.
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Absolutely nobody chooses this as a first choice in family planning.
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The series' intent was to persuade couples to use family planning.
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"I have really gone all in on family planning," she said.
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On the topic of family planning, however, she's not so optimistic.
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Family planning should be an issue that unites conservatives and liberals.
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Foley oversees the Title X program that provides family planning services.
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This legislation would effectively reduce maternal mortality rates by ensuring clinics receive funding for family planning and reproductive health care — clinics like those run by Family Health Options Kenya and the Family Planning Association of Nepal.
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In addition, Congress should look broadly at the Family Planning and Reproductive Health budgets of USAID and the State Department's Global Health Program to ensure women of childbearing age have access to voluntary family planning information.
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"This clear attack on family planning care could result in lower-quality care or none at all for people struggling to make ends meet," added Coleman, whose organization represents publicly funded family planning providers and administrators.
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The new rule also blocks access and chips away at the intent of important federal programs like the Title X family planning program, said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
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During her time at HHS as secretary for population affairs, Huber restructured the Title X family planning grant requirements to emphasize "natural family planning" (meaning nonhormonal, high-failure-rate methods of regulating pregnancy, such as ovulation tracking).
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U.S. District Judge Lance Walker in Bangor on Wednesday rejected a request for a preliminary injunction sought by Maine Family Planning, the state's largest reproductive health organization and sole grantee under the Title X family planning program.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy that requires foreign NGOs that receive U.S. global family planning funds to certify that they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.
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They perform gynecological exams and provide family planning services and prenatal care.
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Closing down family-planning services is a terrible way to fight abortion.
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Pressuring people about their family planning is also a bad thing. Idiots.
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Educating girls, letting women have family planning, letting women own more farmland.
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But no big changes in school policies accompanied the family-planning programmes.
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In low-income countries like Malawi, family-planning cuts could be devastating.
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That's not good news for people relying on them for family planning.
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Title X, a family-planning program, has also come under intense fire.
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They believe folks should have access to health care and family planning.
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Today family planning services for millions of poor Americans is at risk.
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StemExpress also contracted with private National Abortion Federation member Family Planning Specialists.
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Vegetarian cooking was taught, as was family planning, psychology, and car maintenance.
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Title X is the country's only dedicated source of family planning funding.
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What's missing in these larger discussions of child welfare is family planning.
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Christine Henneberg is a doctor specializing in women's health and family planning.
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And we've surrounded global health with agriculture and sanitation, family planning, antismoking.
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Overnight, 3,000 patients lost their reproductive health care and family planning services.
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While abroad, she evaluated family planning clinics and helped develop new ones.
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But Planned Parenthood is at its very roots about, um, family planning.
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"A lot happens when you don't have family planning," Waters noted dryly.
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This is all part of family planning ... for Khaled and Nicole, anyway.
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States can protect family planning by increasing their support for these programs.
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What constitutes "family planning," however, has become a political point of contention.
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In fact, like many family planning clinics, PHS doesn't even provide abortions.
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But what constitutes "family planning" has become a political point of contention.
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Maternal and newborn health are inextricably linked to family planning, said Kates.
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Support for Title X family planning services should be a bipartisan issue.
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This fact may reshape how doctors and policymakers think about family planning.
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Letting America's religious right limit U.S. family planning assistance abroad is stupid.
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Manning has questioned the efficacy of contraception in preventing pregnancy, and also said the government shouldn't play a role in family planning—the foundational ideas behind the federal family planning program she will now be tasked with overseeing.
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The United States in 2016 allocated $608 million for family planning world wide and about $22002 billion for organizations administering global health, Suzanne Ehlers, the President and CEO of PAI, a global family planning advocacy organization, told me.
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Daltry and other public health experts are concerned that proposed changes to the Title X family planning program rules may result in the closing of some Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics that also provide abortion services.
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The Trump administration's proposed changes to a federal family planning program is "government interference" in the patient-physician relationship, according to the leading association representing doctors in the U.S. Family planning clinics that refer patients for abortions or share locations or finances with abortion providers will be ineligible for funding through the Title X family planning grant program under proposed regulations released by the administration on Tuesday.
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At the Family Planning 2020 summit in 2012, the Malagasy government committed to increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate to 50 percent and decreasing the unmet need for family planning by half, by lowering it to 9 percent by 2020.
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The regulations would ban organizations that receive family planning dollars under the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds organizations providing services like birth control to low-income women and men, from promoting abortion or referring patients for abortions.
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In a recent study we conducted in Texas, we compared pregnancy counseling and referral practices at state-funded family planning organizations and compared them to federal Title X-funded family planning organizations after the state policy went into effect.
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In rejecting this money, the lawmakers eliminated a program called the Iowa Family Planning Network, which allowed people to enroll in Medicaid for family planning services, including pap smears, birth control counseling, pregnancy tests, pelvic exams, and STD treatment.
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The Title X Family Planning Program, signed into law by President Nixon in 28500, has a long record of helping low-income and underserved individuals obtain high-quality family planning and related preventive healthcare while also providing economic benefit.
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Texas was forced to do an about-face and re-fund family planning.
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Decades ago, Egypt had a family-planning program, supported by the United States.
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The $600m family-planning budget, which the administration wanted to eliminate, survived unscathed.
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When Alheri Yusuf first heard about family planning from a relative, she hesitated.
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The loosening of family-planning rules is also creating new problems for women.
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In the 1980s Iran lurched from pro-natalist policies to promoting family planning.
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In certain areas, Planned Parenthood is the only federally-funded family planning clinic.
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And Maine Family Planning has said it will withdraw from the program entirely.
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Issoufou has also said he will promote family planning during his second term.
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She is convinced that technology will profoundly change the future of family planning.
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Decades ago, Egypt had a family-planning programme, supported by the United States.
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They presented their findings this week at the International Conference on Family Planning.
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Sensitive, modern family planning is entirely consistent with conservative values and family values.
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Women will go without cancer screenings or family planning, which causes unintended pregnancies.
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Now Trump has expanded the policy, cutting $8.8 billion from family planning NGOs.
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The legislators slashed the family-planning budget from $111.5 million to $37.9 million.
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Wade decriminalized abortion across the county — to establish a federal family planning program.
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The approach paid off for many health programs, from family planning to tuberculosis.
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As twins we'd been spared the reach of the government's family-planning policies.
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This is a condensed and edited version of our conversation about family planning.
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The rule diminishes the program's long standing guarantee of comprehensive family planning services.
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The new grant process could put some family planning providers out of business.
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The international community can and should offer family planning aid to these governments.
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The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association and ACLU also sued the administration.
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But even then, the number one solution is educating girls and family planning.
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It's family planning and it's really addressing the whole needs of women's health.
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Now, Rachel Lindsay has switched careers, gotten married, and has started family planning.
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The program provides family planning funding for four million poor or uninsured Americans.
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Under previous Republican administrations, the gag rule only applied to family planning funding.
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How do your approaches to family planning issues go over with the archdiocese?
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Family planning leads parents to have fewer babies and invest more in each.
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Despite losing his own case, he says he understands China's family-planning policy.
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Corrupt and brutal family-planning officials demolished the homes of some who resisted.
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First, not every community health center is a safety-net family planning provider.
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The exact family planning benefits that Medicaid covers varies from state to state.
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While both regulations prevented family planning clinics from referring patients for abortions and required them to have physical and financial separation from abortion clinics, the Reagan-era regulations also prevented the family planning clinics from even discussing abortion with their patients.
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They lack access to not only the right family planning information about why to time and space their pregnancies, but also to the correct information about family planning methods that can be used consistent with their religious and cultural views.
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HHS - family planning grants: A federal judge on Monday ruled against birth control organizations that tried to block the Trump administration from shifting a federal family-planning grant program toward prioritizing groups that are faith-based and counsel abstinence (Reuters).
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In this role, Manning will not only oversee the distribution of federal family planning funds via the program known as Title X, she'll also help advise HHS secretary Tom Price on national policy about family planning, contraception, and teen pregnancy.
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USAID's family planning program helps parents better feed, educate and care for their children.
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" The services "range along a continuum" from "natural family planning and contraception to sterilization.
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The state legislature has been particularly hostile to Planned Parenthood and family planning clinics.
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Bangladesh promoted family planning by mobilising village women to preach the virtues of contraception.
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Yet experts expect the prevalence of app-based family planning will continue to rise.
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It is the only federal program that is designed solely for family planning purposes.
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Donald Trump is trying to stop family-planning clinics from advising patients about abortion.
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The state of Oklahoma has opened its first new family planning clinic since 1974.
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For instance, Nabembezi says, women are often the ones with questions about family planning.
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The government says about half a million people work for the family planning commission.
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In 2011, Texas cut its family planning budget from $111 million to $38 million.
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"We didn't try, and we didn't not try," he adds of their family planning.
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President Trump has picked an anti-abortion advocate to lead federal family planning programs.
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In September, a critic of family planning laws saw his social media accounts deleted.
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Still, federal funds for Title X clinics and other family planning efforts are uncertain.
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The best way to prevent abortion is through more family planning services, not fewer.
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This year, Iowa blocked abortion providers from receiving public money for family planning services.
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It provides maternity services, sterilisations, emergency contraception for rape victims and family planning services.
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Together, Medicaid and Title X combine to form our nation's family planning safety net.
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This family planning program, widely known as Title X, has been a phenomenal success.
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Another area that the Gates Foundation is focusing on is contraception and family planning.
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A major focus of the summit will be expanding family planning services to adolescents.
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While the campaign had language supporting family planning, it was entirely silent on abortion.
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And not a penny of family planning money will be cut under the proposal.
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It gives money in the form of grants to clinics offering family planning services.
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Rather, the organization gets government funding through Medicaid reimbursements and public family planning grants.
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The cost savings help explain why the family planning program is popular among states.
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Up to 26 million fewer women and couples acquiring contraception and family planning advice.
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This along with basic family planning goes a long way to save tax dollars.
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Dr. Connell had a longtime commitment to raising awareness about family planning and contraception.
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Belatedly, the government acknowledged the need for family planning, but other barriers impeded it.
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"You can't really detach this conversation from the conversation about family planning," she said.
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"The rule doesn't apply if it has to do with family planning," she says.
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The number of women covered by the state family planning program dropped by 30,000.
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China Looks like the end could be near for China's infamous family-planning rules.
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The clinic offers services including family planning, STD testing and treatment and transgender care.
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Thirteen states have some restrictions on how family planning funds are used, Nash said.
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Together, Title X and Medicaid combine to form our nation's family planning safety net.
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"Organizations that provide family planning services were worried that someone at some point could challenge them in terms of what they were providing," said Derick Brinkerhoff of RTI International, who was involved in a recent study on family planning legislation in Madagascar.
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Then in February, the Trump administration announced that Title X, the nation's family planning program, would prioritize giving federal grants to groups that focus on natural family planning rather than ones that offer the full range of FDA-approved birth control methods.
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It requires foreign NGOs that receive family planning assistance from the US to certify that they will not "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning" with any of their funds—even money that does not come from America.
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Tonic news editor Susan Rinkunas talks about how the current administration is changing Title X, the country's only federal program aimed at funding family planning efforts at a local level, to focus on abstinence-only sex education and natural family planning methods.
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Access to quality health care took a direct hit with the release of a new, finalized rule governing the Title X Family Planning Program — the nation's only dedicated federal source of funding providing family planning services and supplies to low-income people.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has suspended broadcasting of family planning advertisements by a U.S.-funded project, a health ministry letter showed, a fortnight after President John Magufuli said family planning was for those "too lazy to take care of their children".
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Trump's version of the gag rule will apply to roughly $9.5 billion dollars in global health funding, as opposed to roughly $575 million in family planning and reproductive health funding, according to Population Action International (PAI), a global family planning advocacy organization.
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We spoke with Starbird, the woman who guides the agency's efforts to advance family planning, at the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning to get her take on the critical importance of women's reproductive health over the next 15 years and beyond.
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"As the only federal program exclusively dedicated to providing low-income patients, including adolescents, with access to family planning and preventative health services and information, Title X plays a vital role in the fabric of America's family planning safety net," the letter said.
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Starbucks is in the minority in offering this family planning assistance to their employees, nfortunately.
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It bans health organizations around the world from providing counseling on all family planning options.
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"Family planning is the single most cost-effective intervention to reduce maternal mortality," Grossman explains.
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My story is one of a state's successful relationship with family planning and reproductive rights.
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The subsidy is one manifestation of the government's keenness on family planning and sexual health.
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Many poor women were reported to have been denied family-planning services as a result.
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" The only specific mention of a type of birth control is "natural family planning methods.
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He also favours family planning, so long as couples use withdrawal rather than modern contraception.
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In Brazil, it is usually women who are responsible for family planning and child care.
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Planned Parenthood's clinics are major recipients of grants for family planning and basic preventive care.
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Planned Parenthood's clinics are major recipients of grants for family planning and basic preventive care.
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So if she uses family planning, they think women will go and sleep with anyone.
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Australia, which claimed the couple had parted ways because they couldn't agree on family planning.
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It could come down to the US Senate to preserve funding for global family planning.
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That money is earmarked for services like cancer screenings, family planning, STI testing and treatments.
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"The women are healthier, they're using family planning methods, and they're becoming leaders," Cerezo said.
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Al-Azhar, Egypt's top Sunni Muslim authority, endorses family planning, but not all Egyptians agree.
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She is the current Chair of the Family Planning Councils of America Board of Directors.
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Mr Xi could have removed family-planning controls altogether, as some Chinese demographers have urged.
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Regardless of the Church's opinion, studies show that Latin Americans themselves support family planning measures.
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Meanwhile, the government continues to shift resources away from women's healthcare, contraception, and family planning.
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Thus, it is for both health and financial reasons that Medicaid provides family planning services.
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"It would be a very, very big blow to the family planning network," she said.
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Without access to that program, Bunde estimated, 36,000 women went without family planning last year.
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The reality is access to contraception, healthcare and family planning reduces the incidence of abortion.
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Perhaps this is down to the way women's family planning choices are regarded more broadly.
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In Kansas, more than 188,000 women qualified for publicly funded family planning services in 2014.
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Teal is the board president of the Society of Family Planning and SFP Research Fund.
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Beim cites her own miscarriage and accelerated family planning as a huge influence on Celmatix.
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Given the existential threat our planet faces, let's break the taboo on family planning policies.
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But then the candidates ought to be eager to make family planning services accessible, right?
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As with everything we do here, family planning is definitely not one size fits all!
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And it should include a discussion around family planning, regardless of the person's body parts.
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Critics say prohibiting Planned Parenthood from family planning programs would hurt patients' access to services.
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Read This Next: Trump's Family Planning Program Will Prioritize Less Effective Kinds of Birth Control
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It is unclear whether it will extend to the government's own family planning publicity efforts.
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And maybe an abortion-reduction program that makes family planning services easily available and free.
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Wade, American women were given little choice when it came to their family planning options.
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Through education, women's rights, environmental protection, family planning, equality, and economic stability can be advanced.
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Trump proposes to cut off both family planning assistance and money for the Population Fund.
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To the Editor: The other day I provided family planning services to a young mother.
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Ignoring climate change and halting U.S. government help with family planning in the developing world.
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Yet a recently implemented federal family-planning policy is doing just the opposite, experts say.
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Each dollar invested in family planning yields $7 in savings for the public later on.
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But opponents of family planning have historically demanded that the United States end its support.
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Several states have already followed Texas in directing family planning funds away from Planned Parenthood.
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Fewer family planning programs also increase the risk of the spread of sexually transmitted disease.
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A nurse counsels a couple about family planning methods at Paropakar Maternity Hospital in Kathmandu.
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Elizabeth Banks is not feeling the love when it comes to her family planning decisions.
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A smaller share of its federal dollars comes in the form of family-planning grants.
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Previously, the rule applied only to foreign nongovernmental organizations receiving United States family-planning assistance.
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And, when it comes to family planning, other countries are already stepping into the breach.
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The walls separated the American-funded family planning section from the section providing abortion counseling.
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Of course, disparities exist in family planning as in almost any aspect of health care.
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She sued the local family planning council and the social services department, but ultimately lost.
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Moreover, the experts note that there's evidence that government family-planning efforts exhibit racial bias.
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Officials at the Chaoyang District Family Planning Commission in Beijing, which had demanded more than 300,000 renminbi from Ms. Zhang and her husband, said they were awaiting instructions from the Beijing Municipal Family Planning Commission on how to proceed under the State Council directive.
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The proposed rule takes aim primarily at Planned Parenthood — which serves over 40% of the patients that receive care through the federal family planning funding grant program called Title X — but is likely to affect the majority of organizations currently receiving family planning funding.
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"Title X programs which are co-located with abortion clinics or refer for abortion send a message that abortion is considered a method of family planning in federally-funded family planning programs, contrary to the law," the letter signed by 41 Senate Republicans reads.
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"The ministry intends to revise the contents of all your ongoing radio and TV spots for family planning, thus I request you to stop with immediate effect airing and publishing any family planning contents in any media channels until further notice," the letter, dated Sept.
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The American Academy of Family Practice recommends that women receive counseling on family planning at their yearly zero co-pay visit (referred to as a well-woman visit), but there's no mention of family planning outside of STI screening at the annual male wellness visit.
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Earlier this year, the department issued new guidelines for granting Title X family planning funds to health care providers — the guidelines emphasize the importance of "natural family planning," which, as the Associated Press notes, includes the rhythm method and others that don't involve contraceptives.
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The grant program supports a wide array of health care providers — not just Planned Parenthood and other nonprofit family planning clinics, but also hospitals, community health centers, and local health departments — that provide family planning services to low-income people at reduced or no cost.
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Such penalties have long provided an important source of revenue for China's local family planning commissions.
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That's why we've learned so much about Jo's past ahead of this big family planning discussion.
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The former Colorado governor supports repealing Hyde and increasing and protecting Title X family planning funding.
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Planned Parenthood announced Monday it was being "forced out" of a federal family planning funding program.
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I'm 32 years old, engaged, and starting to seriously discuss family planning options with my partner.
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So has Maine Family Planning, a nonprofit, sole recipient of Title X funds in that state.
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Reducing maternal deaths requires political will, government foresight and access to family planning, according to campaigners.
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President Donald Trump is trying to prevent American family-planning clinics from advising patients about abortion.
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The two family planning organizations would join forces to become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Major News: The state of Oklahoma has opened its first new family planning clinic since 1974.
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As Hogue notes, the effects of family planning reverberate throughout families and society as a whole.
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Reproductive-health advocates lauded H.R. 2740 as a victory for family planning and healthcare in general.
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Those federal funds, called Title X, are competitive grants that go to affordable family planning providers.
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Such policies should encourage female participation and foster accessible avenues for family planning and child rearing.
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And there are doubts about the effectiveness of using basal body temperature for natural family planning.
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In other words: There's more hanging in the balance than women's reproductive and family-planning resources.
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A tiny bit of insight into tech and family planning is an interesting place to start.
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Women around the world, from Texas to Tanzania, being cut off from modern family-planning tools.
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"Most people choose not to use [natural family planning] exclusively, because it's very ineffective," Ratcliffe says.
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But the assumption that family planning should be all about birth control is a 1960s relic.
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The foundation will announce an additional $375 million for family planning over the next four years.
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In 22007 counties, Planned Parenthood is the only safety net center that offers family planning services.
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"Nondirective" family planning counseling is no different than almost every other kind of ethical health care.
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Family planning under Title X carefully follows this basic rule, and has done so for decades.
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Yet, in the House of Representatives this year, the International Family Planning account was massively cut.
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Washington state exited a federal family planning program Thursday over the Trump administration's new abortion restrictions.
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That's why it is unacceptable that the Senate conference report on Zika lacks family planning funding.
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They would put us in a van, directly to the family planning office, for the abortion.
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They raised concerns that the administration might cut off Title X family-planning grant funds. Rep.
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"The best way to prevent abortion is through more family planning services, not fewer," Sandberg wrote.
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More than 225 million women and girls globally don't have access to modern family planning methods.
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Yet Republicans try to defund Title X, the traditional family planning program in the United States.
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Two powerful levers on demography that also uphold human rights are girls' education and family planning.
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Instead, clinics that don't provide FDA-approved contraceptive methods could become eligible for family planning money.
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Depo-Provera is a mainstay of family planning across much of Africa, where H.I.V. remains rampant.
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The UNFPA and U.S.A.I.D. continue to collaborate in countries where they both work on family planning.
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Additionally, contraception was illegal and considered obscene, and dissemination of any family planning information was outlawed.
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Doctors have also expressed alarm at the prospect of such changes to federal family planning rules.
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One in 3 families also said child-care costs had played a part in family planning.
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Family planning, birth control and voluntary abortion aren't dirty words; they're keys to our environmental survival.
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In 2013, organizations that provide abortions in Texas were cut off from receiving family planning funds.
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Both education and family planning are basic human rights, not yet reality for too many people.
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The grants, which go to Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics, do not cover abortion.
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Family planning groups and advocates for women's rights criticized Republican plans to roll back these requirements.
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No such mandate exists, of course, as there is widespread popular support for family planning programs.
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One strategy to address the population boom is to improve family planning and limit unwanted births.
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Three-quarters of the public dollars spent on family planning in this country are Medicaid dollars.
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The new regulation jettisons a requirement that Title X clinics provide "medically approved" family planning services.
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These concerns about the quality of family-planning care are particularly salient for women of color.
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More recently, Texas has experimented with cutting abortion providers out of state-level family planning grants.
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In an era when contraceptives could be banned, the GOP fought for greater family planning resources.
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"We'll do away with the Hyde Amendment -- so that ensures regardless of your income or your ZIP code you're able to access a safe, legal abortion, and also the other services that are provided in family planning clinics, a cervical cancer screening, family planning help," O'Rourke said.
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"Today's decision sends a message to this administration that it will not get away with making harmful changes to the nation's family planning program, at the expense of people's health care," the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which joined Washington's lawsuit, said in a statement.
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What they found out was that it's not so easy to do that without hurting family planning clinics in general because you first have to scrap the entire family planning program and then re-make it to exclude Planned Parenthood from the list of eligible providers.
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The Family Planning Association of Nepal is also facing major cuts due to this policy, being forced to cut down staff at its clinics, mobile outreach work, capacity-building training and a program to improve quality of care focused on family planning services and clients' rights.
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Title X has operated as the sole federal program dedicated to family planning since 1970 when, recognizing the need of low-income individuals for accessible family planning services, Congress passed, and President Nixon signed, Title X of the Public Health Service Act, with strong bipartisan support.
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"It's hard to believe that a federal program that is dedicated to family planning does not mention the [word] 'contraception' ... even once in a 60-page funding announcement," said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, in a written statement.
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Created by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, the original rule made US aid money to family planning providers contingent on a pledge not to "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning," even when those activities are funded by other countries or private foundations.
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It has been illegal to fund abortions as a method of family planning with U.S. money since 1973, but the gag rule pulls other family planning funding — for H.I.V. prevention or contraception, for example — if an organization even advises a patient on where to get an abortion.
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Just last month, a new "domestic gag rule" resulted in dramatically curtailed government spending on access to family planning in the US. Forty percent of the 4 million Americans who access contraception through the only federal family planning program, Title X, access it through Planned Parenthood.
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"This is going to say that family planning is an important aspect of national development," said Andriamintantsoa.
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Public funding is only used for other family planning and health services, like contraception or STD tests.
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The government claimed a victory for its family-planning policies when population growth slowed slightly in 2015.
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While the Bush administration implemented anti-abortion policies abroad, the scope was limited to family planning programs.
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Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must immediately stop referring women for abortions, the Trump administration said Monday.
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That failure poses a significant risk for women who stake their family planning choices on a smartphone.
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They point out that federal family planning funds cannot be currently used to pay for abortion procedures.
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So far, engaging boys and men has largely focused on tackling violence against women and family planning.
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The main reasons were lack of knowledge, misplaced fear of health risks and opposition to family planning.
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Most urban parents have only one child, partly as a result of once strict family-planning rules.
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They point out that federal family planning funds cannot currently be used to pay for abortion procedures.
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A family planning clinic's message advertising the "10-Week-After-Pill", an abortion method, was rebuffed too.
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They also have concerns about the bill defunding the family-planning group Planned Parenthood for one year.
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It also discusses why methods of natural family planning are compatible with responsible parenthood and married love.
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As a result, women may lose access to birth control and life-saving family planning health care.
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After all, it makes sense that anti-abortion advocates would funnel money into natural family planning technology.
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Afterward, one in every four clinics in the state closed or stopped providing family planning help altogether.
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But Egypt was relying on donor support and when that assistance went away, family planning was neglected.
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We will never see these economic gains if we continue to restrict access to family planning resources.
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Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop referring women to abortion providers immediately, the Trump administration said.
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In 22011 of those counties, Planned Parenthood serves at least half of safety net family planning clients.
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The Trump administration moved to bar federal funding for family planning clinics that refer patients for abortions.
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New age family planning Coelho said the success rates of pregnancies using IVF techniques are quite high.
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Their letter calls for more funding for "family planning and contraception," and does not specifically mention abortion.
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If the Green New Deal is to be as transformative as advertised, it must include family planning.
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That's why the CDC says family planning is the primary strategy to reduce Zika-related pregnancy complications.
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So not having access to maybe family planning services and all sorts of things can increase risk.
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Policies such as abortion access, family planning, affirmative action and voting rights now hang in the balance.
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Six licensed physicians are providing services, including abortions, OB-GYN care, family planning, adoption and emergency contraception.
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The rule covers Title X, the only federal program dedicated to family planning for low-income people.
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"Men do not take responsibility for family planning – they think it's the business of women," Muttreja says.
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That early-onset form is inherited and might cause me to consider various issues regarding family planning.
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It could make it harder for American women to access reproductive health care and family planning services.
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He also broadened it to cover nearly all health care funding, rather than just family planning funding.
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While we're waiting, family planning advocates continue to reel from the department's war on contraception and abortion.
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Congress repealed an Obama-era rule that forbade states to deny family planning funds to Planned Parenthood.
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Medicaid also provides essential help in family planning, preventing premature births and supporting infant and child health.
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The Grammy winner previously riled up fans on social media when she opened up about family planning.
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In April, the administration also froze funding to the United Nations agency that promotes family planning efforts.
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About 10 percent of health centers that receive Title X family-planning money are Planned Parenthood affiliates.
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CARTER DILLARD San Francisco The writer is president of Having Kids, a nonprofit that advocates family planning.
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MELINDA HARDIN Cooperstown, N.Y. The writer is co-chairwoman of Family Planning of South Central New York.
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Family planning clinics grew impatient with the administration amid a months-long delay in the funding announcement.
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Meanwhile, providers of abortion and family planning are dwindling and the maternal mortality rate remains unconscionably high.
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The company connects users with OB-GYNs, pediatricians, therapists, career coaches and other services around family planning.
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We started restoring fertility to the overused farmland, bringing in better health education and family planning information.
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The new agreement provides higher salaries and family-planning benefits that make staying stateside easier for players.
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People should not have to worry about whether they'll have access to family planning resources like contraception.
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When Obama took office, he immediately restored funding for overseas family-planning clinics that provided abortion services.
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In recent years, Gates has helped provide women greater access to family planning, health services and education.
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New data on women's uncertainty over motherhood may reshape how doctors and policymakers think about family planning.
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"We've had success in raising awareness for other major public issues, such as family planning," he said.
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Uncertainty about the future of DACA and other immigration policies can also affect immigrants' family planning decisions.
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"This rule intentionally strikes at the heart of the patient-provider relationship, inserting political ideology into a family planning visit, which will frustrate and ultimately discourage patients from seeking the health care they need," Clare Coleman, head of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, said in a statement.
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The abortion laws have been overturned by the Supreme Court, and much of the family planning funding has also been restored — but Planned Parenthood is still blocked from funding, dozens of family planning clinics in the state remain closed, and it may take years before capacity is restored.
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"This rule intentionally strikes at the heart of the patient-provider relationship, inserting political ideology into a family planning visit, which will frustrate and ultimately discourage patients from seeking the health care they need," said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
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Planned Parenthood says it sees about 41 percent of patients who get family planning services under Title X. The rule immediately faced legal challenges from Planned Parenthood, the American Medical Association, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), the American Civil Liberties Union, and a number of states.
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Days later, however, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said authorities would keep cracking down on surrogacy.
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The National Health and Family Planning Commission said on Thursday the spread of H7N9 among people was slowing.
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It is no secret that the Trump administration is stacked with advocates of socially conservative family planning beliefs.
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The family planning public health campaign is being spearheaded by IntraHealth, an NGO that distributes contraceptives throughout Senegal.
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The survey by the health and family-planning commission found that 22% of migrants over 50 have jobs.
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For example, Trump has been trying to block funding for any family planning clinics that provide abortion services.
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While family planning is a constitutional right, many women have trouble getting contraceptives because of poverty or inconvenience.
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Her Adventures, which encourages women to plan ahead and get educated about family planning, including birth control options.
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She announced the foundation would provide an additional $20203 million for family planning over the next four years.
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Jason Bremner manages data and performance for FP2020, a family planning initiative led by the United Nations Foundation.
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Abortion opponents allege the federal family planning program in effect cross-subsidizes abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.
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Founded in 193, Title X is the nation's only federal program dedicated solely to funding family planning services.
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Founded in 1970, Title X is the nation's only federal program dedicated solely to funding family planning services.
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In the immediate aftermath, family planning clinics in Texas became almost entirely dependent on Title X federal funds.
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The rule pulls U.S. aid to non-government organizations that discuss abortion as a possible family planning option.
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Without the sliding fee scale at the Presque Isle Family Planning clinic, the implant would cost Boyce $1,050.
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Without the sliding fee scale at the Presque Isle Family Planning clinic, the implant would cost Boyce $223,22019.
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Flora's unwanted pregnancy came before the current level of family-planning education and assistance was available in Malawi.
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This is particularly devastating at a time when we know that global family planning programs have been working.
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Neither Oregon nor Hawaii returned a request for comment on their states' futures in the family planning program.
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The Trump administration is now blocking clinics in a nationwide family planning program from referring patients for abortions.
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Both series - expected to air in 2018 - will also include plotlines around family planning and gender based violence.
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The procedure was performed by a family planning specialist at the Walton Family Health Center at the Bronx.
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Most Americans, including nearly half of Trump voters, oppose defunding Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest family planning provider.
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Actually, the agency does not support or provide abortion as a method of family planning anywhere it works.
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Last week, Congress voted for the eighth time to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest family planning provider.
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Why it matters: This means the administration's changes to the Title X family planning program will move forward.
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All were hoping to receive prenatal care, find out if they were pregnant, or get family planning advice.
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After all, funding attacks on family planning providers who offer abortions aren't always specifically directed at Planned Parenthood.
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It is yet another attack on reproductive freedom ("Dems press Trump to restore family planning funding," April 11).
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It remains the only federal grant program solely dedicated to family planning and related preventive health care services.
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The proposal is targeted at Planned Parenthood, which funds family planning services for low-income women and men.
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She is also the medical consultant for the Family Planning Program of the Colorado Department of Public Health.
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China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, which oversees hospitals, did not respond to a request for comment.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday shortened the funding period for grants awarded to organizations providing family planning services.
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Access to family planning improves women's health, earnings and educational opportunities; it reduces poverty and saves taxpayers money.
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There is no question that women's access to reproductive health and family planning are essential for sustainable development.
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Under the Helms Amendment, American foreign aid cannot be used for abortion as a method of family planning.
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Some 225 million women in developing countries have an unmet need for family planning, according to U.N. data.
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The Catholic Church, for example, promotes family planning for couples who want to manage when they conceive children.
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China has loosened its family planning policy as its population grays, birth rates slow and its workforce declines.
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Title X — the largest source of family planning — would have been zeroed out in the House Republican budget.
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"The notice informs the reader only of the existence of publicly funded family-planning services," Judge Nelson wrote.
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That sort of program, Silverman says, would be completely undermined by stripping global family planning from the budget.
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This administration is stripping so many good programs out of existence, from family planning to preserving whooping cranes.
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She is president and chief executive, not executive director, of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
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Instead, the state is cutting off funding for family planning services such as STI testing and contraception provision.
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While health posts provide services such as prenatal care, vaccinations and family planning, they lack staffing and resources.
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Even the ones that have "population" in the name focus on family planning rather than population as such.
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I'm referring, of course, to the three decades of family-planning rules known as the one-child policy.
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" (§ 6-18-703) "...curriculum guides shall not include information pertaining to abortion as an alternative to family planning.
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More precisely: Zero unmet need for family planning, zero maternal deaths during childbirth and zero gender-based violence.
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At issue are the regulations surrounding Title X, the 1970 law that created the federal family planning program.
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Ever since he came into office, Trump has been letting right-wing activists run federal family planning programs.
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"I'd be very, very afraid, very, very scared about what they might do to family planning," she said.
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Family planning options and contraceptive services helped reduce infant and maternal mortality, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy.
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State budget cuts and legislative restrictions have made family planning, sexual wellness, and maternity care almost as scarce.
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The Population Fund is the single largest international provider of contraception, family planning, and other reproductive health services.
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But Title X family planning providers are now prohibited — among other restrictions — from referring patients to abortion services.
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A related study showed that family planning and smaller family size leads to longer life expectancy for children.
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She said the organization has closed clinics and HIV/AIDS and family-planning services in deep rural areas.
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The grant helped the Family Planning Association of Nepal train more than 80 health workers in three districts.
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Under the principles, CHC members commit to protecting Title X family planning programs "against efforts to sabotage" them.
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But they can exercise that right only within a complex system of national and local family-planning regulations.
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Programs to promote long-acting methods among women of color can further erode trust in family-planning services.
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In fact, for every dollar spent on family planning through Medicaid, $6 is saved in ultimate taxpayer costs.
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It deals with how states can spend federal grant money on other low-income family planning providers, too.
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The rest of Planned Parenthood's federal funds come from Title X, the nation's only federal family planning program.
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This obsession with financial "purity" means that contraception and other family planning services get thrown under the bus.
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Today we're going to talk about how this administration is hacking away at government support for family planning.
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Clinics and organizations that receive Title X family planning dollars would have to create physical and financial barriers between taxpayer-funded family planning activities and any part of the organization that deals with abortion, which will now have to be solely privately funded, according to background information from the White House.
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"We have reason to believe that the final rule, if implemented, would undermine the federal Title X family planning program and threaten access to family planning services for millions of low-income women across the United States," writes Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsCan the Democrats unseat Trump?
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The bill reverses a rule enacted by Barack Obama, days before the end of his presidency, that barred states from withholding state-managed Title X family planning funds — state grants aimed at helping low-income individuals receive family planning services at reduced or no cost — from health providers that offer abortions.
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The program known as Title X provides subsidies of reproductive healthcare and family planning costs for low-income women.
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We help governments with their foreign aid programs, because many of them support family planning in third world countries.
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In December alone, China had 106 cases of human infections, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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Having grown up under strict family planning policies, many are inclined not to have children -- let alone second pregnancies.
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But in Africa, MSI and IPPF are the two largest NGO providers of free contraception and family planning advice.
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The Health and Family Planning Commission of southwestern Yunnan province said a woman died from H7N9 on Tuesday night.
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Back then, the rule completely barred family planning clinics that receive federal grants from even discussing abortion with women.
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In fact, data from the Japanese Family Planning Association suggest that public attitudes are becoming less permissive, not more.
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In the past year alone, two dozen states have tried to limit funding for family planning and related services.
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In 2011, Texas lawmakers slashed family planning funds by 66 percent, resulting in the closure of 82 clinics statewide.
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ISSU (Initiative Sénégalaise de Santé Urbaine) is one of the IntraHealth programs for improving access to family planning resources.
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These comprehensive service benefits will include primary health care, such as family planning, vaccination and screening services, Motsoaledi said.
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A third gives advice on addressing marital differences ("Think win-win") and family planning ("Make time for sexual intimacy").
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Moreover, to the extent women want birth control, family planning is a social good that may help prevent overpopulation.
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But today, Planned Parenthood clinics that receive federal family planning funds often essentially refer women for on-site abortions.
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In some parts of America, groups that perform abortions are the only federally-funded providers of family-planning services.
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Politico reports that Teresa Manning, an anti-contraception activist, will oversee the budget for the federal family planning program.
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Wu is a lawyer who says local governments strongly rely on family planning fines to help fund their operations.
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That means a single person controls the nation's family planning budget for the first time since the late 21980s.
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The National Health and Family Planning Commission had said in October that couples would still need approval at first.
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Rather, government funding goes towards basic health care such as cancer screenings, family planning, and STI testing and treatments.
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Mothers are invited to seminars with preachers who say that Islam allows family planning, and doctors who answer questions.
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Every dollar spent on family planning saves at least $5 in the cost of unintended pregnancy in this country.
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Instead, family planning ought to mean helping people to have as many, or as few, children as they want.
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And it's not just abortion access that is under siege; it's also family planning services, including access to contraceptives.
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HHS says that 25 percent of couples who use natural family planning methods, including fertility awareness, may become pregnant.
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The rules extend to practices that refer women to abortion facilities or promote abortion as a family planning method.
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Last week, the administration unveiled a new push to strip funding from Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics.
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House Democrats want the Trump administration to explain recent changes that reshape the federal government's family-planning grant program.
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Medicaid is a critical source of family planning services and covers half of all births in the United States.
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Last week, behind closed doors, President Trump signed a bill gutting family planning protections for over 4 million Americans.
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A hallmark of the Title X family planning program is its confidentiality guarantee for all patients, including young people.
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After nearly 50 years, the law marking a bright line between "family planning" and abortion will finally be respected.
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"Increasing access to women's health and family planning services is a priority in Texas," officials wrote in their application.
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Furthermore, we call for robust funding of the Title X Family Planning Program and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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Title X is the only federal grant program solely dedicated to providing comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services.
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"If you don't give family planning then abortion will increase," says Nabakanta Sharma, a gynecologist and obstetrician in Imphal.
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"For far too long the Title X Family Planning Program has been integrated with abortion centers," that letter stated.
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Marta Mateo of Los Angeles is using the family planning program for a tubal ligation to prevent another pregnancy.
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If international family planning organizations wanted to receive continued U.S. assistance, they could not provide any counseling on abortion.
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Little Rock Family Planning Services is the only clinic to offer both surgical and medication abortion in the state.
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Lalaina Razafinirinasoa, country director of Marie Stopes Madagascar: We provide family planning services to approximately 800,000 women and men.
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Royo: Colombia has a lot of problems with access to family planning products and services, especially for poor women.
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Their church discourages the use of family planning and birth control, and families often have upward of eight children.
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As for why they're already unloading this primo location -- in the world's tallest residential building, btw -- think family planning.
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The church also helped fund a homeless shelter and protested the ubiquitous use of abortion in Chinese family planning.
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The new rule would prohibit organizations that provide referrals for abortions from accepting any federal funds for family planning.
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The final rule also requires a complete separation of family planning and abortion services at clinics that offer both.
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China has been loosening its family planning policy as its population ages, birth rates slow and its workforce declines.
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Restrictions on family planning access and insurance coverage result in detrimental effects on women's health and community health overall.
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But a change to the country's strict family planning laws had been considered likely by experts for some time.
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He reinstituted a ban on federal funding for overseas family planning groups that assist or counsel women seeking abortions.
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Adam Jacobs, medical director of Mount Sinai Health System's division of family planning, saw an uptick after the election.
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The director of the Malawian family-planning charity said it refused to commit to complying with the new rules.
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Ms. Collins and Ms. Murkowski have resisted these moves, saying that family planning clinics provide essential care for women.
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In the past, the policy has applied only to international family-planning funds, which currently total around $600 million.
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Pregnancy testing kits and other family planning items also qualify, and can easily be set aside for later use.
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The Trump administration's cruel new family planning rule threatens access to contraception and other health care for poor women.
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The new rule would steer federal family planning funds under Title X to anti-abortion and faith based groups.
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Both Title X and Medicaid provide low- to middle-income women with financial assistance to cover family planning costs.
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Risks aside, anything that helps us better understand family planning and the female body is, obviously, a good thing.
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When Obamacare was implemented, the Savilles were past their family planning years, but they still benefitted from the law.
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Some delegates, including Xiong Sidong of Jiangsu province, even urged the state to remove "family planning" from the constitution.
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The grants might go to state and local health departments, hospitals, family planning councils, or nonprofits like Planned Parenthood.
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The U.S. policy says foreign NGOs must certify that they will not "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in foreign countries or provide financial support to any other foreign ... (NGO) that conducts such activities," as a pre-condition for getting global family planning aid from the U.S. government.
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"The Title X program is a critical part of the public health system, and without it, the future could look pretty bleak for providers and patients alike," said Audrey Sandusky, director of advocacy and communications for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, a membership group for family planning health care providers.
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This change, coupled with guidelines that prioritize programs that focus on abstinence-only sex ed and natural family planning and remove the requirement to offer the full range of FDA-approved birth control methods, could mean that deceptive crisis pregnancy centers may be eligible for family planning funding for the first time.
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While there are already laws in place that prevent federal money from directly funding abortions, the new rule would mean family planning programs would have to perform abortion services or provide abortion counseling and referrals in a different place, and by different employees, for the facility to continue receiving federal family planning dollars.
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We'll start though, with Democrats raising concerns about a proposal on family-planning grants: Dems blast Title X rulemaking process House and Senate Dems are complaining to the Office of Management and Budget about the "unconventional and nontransparent" review process for a pending rule that would overhaul the Title X family planning program.
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I've tied some items to the election of Donald Trump, and I've looked for organizations that you may not have heard of: ■ One battle over the coming four years will involve family planning, because of G.O.P. efforts to defund Title X family planning programs and repeal Obamacare, which provides free birth control.
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Robert J. Walker is the president of the Population Institute, a Washington nonprofit advocating for family planning and gender equality.
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President Barack Obama is taking steps to protect family planning services like Planned Parenthood once he leaves office in January.
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She lists four things you should never say to someone regarding family planning, and they all make so much sense.
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It falls to them to create more and better schools, provide security for their people and invest in family planning.
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"It means they'll retain access to family planning facilities like sex education, contraception, safe abortion, and maternity care," she said.
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Previously, the Mexico City policy applied only to aid for family-planning programmes, which in 2016 stood at about $600m.
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China's Population and Family Planning Law banned gender testing in 2002, to prevent a widening of the country's gender imbalance.
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While the problem has been exacerbated in China by draconian family planning laws, aging is a major issue throughout Asia.
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Meanwhile, the providers at Little Rock Family Planning hope to continue seeing patients as their case moves forward, Williams said.
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Also, "one mechanism by which Medicaid expansion could help is by supporting more consistent and comprehensive family planning," Kramer said.
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By making sperm storage more accessible, startups hope to encourage a conversation around family planning and fertility among young men.
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Late last year, China announced that it would ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children.
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You can buy emergency contraception pills in the family planning section of drugstores, and you typically don't need a prescription.
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Even if the Planned Parenthood clinic stops offering abortions, it would continue to provide other family-planning and healthcare services.
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In addition to providing Nexplanon, IUDs, and other family planning care, the clinics do offer medication abortion, enabled by telemedicine.
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The firm offers a wide array of benefits including help toward family planning, adult/eldercare caregiving, childcare and community service.
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They often experience health challenges due to serious obstacles in accessing pre- and post-natal care and family planning services.
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By 2016, the country's birthrate rose 7.9 percent to 17.86 million, according to China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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Under previous Republican presidents, the Gag Rule applied only to family planning funds (about $600 million under George W. Bush).
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Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association filed lawsuits seeking to block the change.
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But, she shouldn't be quizzed about her family planning philosophy at a mid-day tea party by nosey virtual strangers.
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In fact, most Americans, including nearly half of Trump voters, oppose defunding Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest family planning provider.
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It should affect family planning decisions, certainly in the southernmost regions of the United States with the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
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"Two Is Enough" is the government's first family-planning campaign aiming to challenge traditions of large families in rural Egypt.
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The untitled bill also defunds Planned Parenthood, as well as any other publicly funded clinic that provides family planning services.
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That includes Title X family planning grants, grants aimed at cancer or Zika prevention, and Violence Against Women Act grants.
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If you need a refresher: Title X funds organizations that provide family planning services to low-income women and men.
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The organization is a mainstay of the federally-funded family planning program and has threatened to quit over the dispute.
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The family planning rule is part of a series of Trump administration efforts to remake government policy on reproductive health.
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In 215, there were 210,225 safety net health centers in the US that provided subsidized family planning services, like contraception.
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Abortion counseling, referral and family planning programs continued to operate out of abortion businesses under former Presidents Bush and Obama.
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The organization was joined by a family planning provider in Maine that said it also would go without federal funding.
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Unlike Medicaid, which directly covers individual people, Title X gives grant money to healthcare clinics which provide family planning services.
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It should go without saying that these actions are well out bounds and family planning advocates do not support them.
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For example, McCauley's team partnered with nonprofit Futures Without Violence to produce safety cards to distribute in family planning facilities.
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Such pressure tactics undermine trust and will drive those who may desperately need care away from accessing family planning services.
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The installment closed on a bit of a cliffhanger, as the newly-pregnant writer waits in a family planning clinic.
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But the threat to family planning methods, like access to contraception and safe abortions, extends to the developed world, too.
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In 2013, publicly funded family planning prevented two million unintended pregnancies, including almost 700,000 abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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And that could be an issue for other states that look to exclude Planned Parenthood from their family planning programs.
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Nothing in the rule impacts the overall level of funding for the program that is available for family planning services.
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"With potential gaps in funding for Planned Parenthood or other family planning clinics, this is an important point," Moore said.
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In less than six months, they used that control to pass an appropriations bill that rejected federal family planning money.
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There are 2,400 different doctors, nurses, and clinics in every corner of the state that can provide family planning services.
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It provides grant money that state and local health departments and nonprofit family planning and community health centers compete for.
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Janet announced that she would be postponing her world tour to tend to "family planning" developments in early April 2016.
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Family planning is a really good thing, and it's now time to see that abortion has a place in that.
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We may see the result of such family planning in the life of a famous medieval queen mother, Margaret Beaufort.
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The provision that covers only family planning is a tiny part of Medicaid, which now serves about 22.8 million Americans.
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Under President Donald Trump, a decades-old Republican policy on global family planning just got a whole lot more aggressive.
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" That's in no small part because many countries, she said, do not have the "luxury of freestanding family planning clinics.
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We want to promote family planning, and making sure young people have access to products, services, correct information, and education.
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I've seen with my own eyes the gains from vaccines, food fortification, family planning and climate-change-adapted agricultural techniques.
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That's because its rules say advertisements cannot promote "adult products or services" unless they focus on contraception or family planning.
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Family planning faces a barrage of attacks — from abolishing science-based sex education to slashing programs that provide affordable contraception.
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By restricting access to family planning, we are preventing many from making the reproductive choices that are right for them.
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President Trump went further: His administration expanded the gag rule to cover all health care funding, not just family planning.
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There doesn't seem to be time to mention the idea of helping women avoid pregnancy by expanding family planning services.
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It awarded $450,000 to the Obria Group, which provides family planning services that include just about everything except, um, contraception.
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Health providers were told to encourage and carry out "family planning" practices like sterilization and forced abortions on Indigenous populations.
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Without Maine Family Planning, she would have had no choice but to make an expensive visit to the emergency room.
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This month, New Jersey state lawmakers voted to restore millions of dollars in funding for health and family planning clinics.
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Reducing abortion rates has been a priority for Trump, and his administration argues family planning funds shouldn't support abortion providers.
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Lifelong Republicans were booed out of state and local committee meetings for just raising abortion rights and family planning ideas.
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It also contains language that would prevent any new Zika funding from going to family planning centers – including Planned Parenthood.
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"I'm pleased that this bill ties the Trump administration's hands as it tries to undermine family planning efforts," she said.
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It's also a jab at Planned Parenthood, which serves 12 percent of women who receive federally funded family planning services.
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That's why, for 50 years, the US was one of the largest funders of international reproductive health and family planning.
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This clinic in Lewiston is threatened because it is operated by Maine Family Planning, a nonprofit that provides some abortions.
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The 2023th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Trump administration in a major case involving federal family planning funds.
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Conservatives have long sought to block Planned Parenthood from getting any federal funding, including through the Medicaid family planning program.
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He said the president's comments only sparked the "momentum" to revisit family planning policies in the country, which included media.
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They are instead the result of factors like natural family planning, hormonal contraceptives, sterilization, infertility and loss, and yes, abortion.
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The measure would have barred Medicaid dollars, for one year, from going to any family planning center that provides abortions.
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"We need to ensure funding for family planning; otherwise, we will continue to have problems with unsafe abortion," he said.
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That's why the nonprofit Project Drawdown has named family planning and educating girls among its top solutions for climate change.
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Most of this money goes toward providing low-income women with family planning services like STD screening and contraceptive coverage.
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The president passed an executive order that forbade organizations that refer patients for abortions from receiving federal family-planning funding.
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She also warned that family planning is "a matter of life and death" for women and children around the world.
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The group was turned down in 2018 because it doesn't provide birth control other than natural family planning and abstinence.
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Historically, the Mexico City policy — which abortion rights advocates dub the "global gag rule" — cut off only family planning funds.
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Polling suggests most Americans, including nearly half of Trump voters, oppose defunding Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest family planning provider.
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The state, which recently made big cuts to its family planning programs, hasn't proven the most reliable source of funding.
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More than half of all births and three-quarters of publicly funded family planning services are currently covered by Medicaid.
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According to the Kaiser poll, a majority of the public opposes allowing federal family planning funds to go to organizations that either only counsel about natural family planning methods, don't counsel pregnant women and girls about all of their options including prenatal care, adoption and abortion, or do not provide contraception or birth control.
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Abortion, divorce and same-sex union are not allowed in the Philippines and some lawmakers oppose artificial methods of family planning.
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With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump reinstated a controversial rule that blocks foreign aid for family planning services.
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They also performed 10, 040 antenatal screenings and 4, 527 family planning appointments, and saw 355 patients for post-abortion care.
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In theory, telemedicine would make it possible for these women to have access to the full range of family planning resources.
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Public health, economic sense Historically, family planning has been covered in this country for a variety of reasons, according to Applegate.
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Rather, this action gives states the option to deny Title X federal grant money to family planning clinics like Planned Parenthood.
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The ACLU alleges that these groups frequently withhold care they are legally obligated to provide—namely family planning and emergency contraceptives.
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And I see a lot of potential in measuring hormone fluctuation with menstrual cycles for family planning, or skin-sensing electrocardiograms.
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By making birth control and other family planning methods readily available, the government hopes to decrease the country's rising poverty rates.
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The U.N. Population Fund is focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.
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The United States reinstated the "Mexico City Policy" in January, cutting some $214.5 million in funds for family planning programmes overseas.
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Musick has been volunteering outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services abortion clinic for nearly five years, she told BuzzFeed News.
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He said that because worries about the Zika virus are enmeshed with family planning issues, setting guidelines about it is tricky.
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It would also cause Little Rock Family Planning, the only clinic in the state that provides surgical abortions, to shut down.
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That will probably lead to more unwanted pregnancies (and more abortions) since many of those charities also provide family-planning services.
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The United States reinstated the "Mexico City Policy" in January, cutting some $214.5 million in funds for family planning programs overseas.
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"If empowering women is more than just rhetoric for the president, he will prove it by funding family planning," she added.
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Priti Patel, Britain's minister for international development, described family planning as "one of the smartest and savviest tools" for poverty reduction.
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"Using contraception can be subversive for women," said Lester Coutinho, the family planning deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Title 22018 provides family planning resources for millions of low income women and Planned Parenthood certainly provides over index of that.
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Until last month it was impossible for many of those born in violation of family-planning rules to get identity papers.
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She was one of the many family planning officials who worked to implement the policy that ran from 1979 to 2015.
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Further, calling abortion "murder" during counseling sessions subjects women to additional distress, anxiety, and shame when making critical family planning decisions.
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And as a result of that war, other family planning services like birth control and cancer screenings are becoming collateral damage.
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Hoe says that schools often turn to two independent NGOs called Mother's Choice and the Family Planning Association for sexual education.
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The changes: Family planning clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for abortions will not be eligible for certain federal funds.
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Planned Parenthood argues the new requirements emphasize abstinence and natural family planning, while de-emphasizing the FDA's approved methods of contraception.
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Four Iowa Planned Parenthood clinics will close on Friday after the state withheld family planning funds from clinics that offer abortions.
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"Family planning clinics are excluded, which is simply nuts," said Donna Crane, vice president of policy at NARAL Pro-Choice America.
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Title X is the only federally funded program solely dedicated to providing low-income women and men with family planning services.
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The policy also prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.
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Family planning and contraceptive services, HIV testing and treatment, tuberculosis care, and other health initiatives have all suffered as a result.
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The funds will instead go toward abstinence education and a natural family planning program called Fertility Education and Medical Management (FEMM).
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"Obria is benefiting from making the family planning program authentic again," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.
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Many family planning clinics offer abortions, but the procedure is not covered under Title X or by other federal funding sources.
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Some state lawmakers have argued that community health centers can easily provide the same family planning services that Planned Parenthood offers.
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New York, California and Washington are threatening to sue the Trump administration over new rules it implemented Friday on family planning.
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Men take little responsibility for family planning and think that a woman being pregnant will keep other men away, he said.
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The Title X grants will fund groups that offer birth control, STD testing and other family planning services through March 2019.
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In 1970, Congress enacted Title X of the Public Health Service Act that provides federal tax dollars for family planning services.
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India spent more than $100 million on family planning in 2015 to 16, with some of these programs resulting in improvement.
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Oregon on Tuesday announced it has exited a federal family planning program over opposition to the Trump administration's new abortion restrictions.
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The midwives in Haiti serve their community providing a full range of prenatal, safe birth, and antenatal care, including family planning.
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Even more appalling was the fact that such abortion providers were receiving federal taxpayer dollars intended to provide family planning services.
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The report warned that unless young girls are given greater access to contraceptives and family planning methods, the situation could worsen.
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Specifically, abortion opponents are targeting the Title X program, which provides federal funding for family planning services for low-income Americans.
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Others were at Catholic facilities that don't provide family planning services, and at least one provider on the list was closed.
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The gag rule controls how foreign organizations and partners working on family planning policies use money they receive from other sources.
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There's just one clinic that performs surgical abortions in the state of Arkansas: Little Rock Family Planning Services in Little Rock.
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Donald Trump has proposed a cut in US global health funding, which will affect projects in Mozambique related to family planning.
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"The determination was made based on China's family planning policies," said Catherine Glenn Foster, president and chief executive of the group.
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Little Rock Family Planning Services is currently the only clinic in the state that provides both medication abortions and surgical abortions.
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But it does do away with a requirement that family planning centers counsel women about abortion and provide referrals for it.
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" Under the current rules, clinics that receive Title X funds must provide a broad range of "medically approved family planning methods.
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JULIE F. KAY, BROOKLYN The writer, a human rights lawyer, is an independent legal consultant for the Irish Family Planning Association.
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Almost half of all births in the country, and 75 percent of publicly funded family planning services, are covered by Medicaid.
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He has long criticized China's family planning policies that emerged in the 1970s and took a draconian hold in the 1980s.
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On the funding front, he's blocked abortion providers from participating in Title X, the only federal program dedicated to family planning.
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They recorded "Here We Come" for a compilation album in aid of Planned Parenthood, a family-planning service, in October 2017.
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It's time to start the conversation about noncoercive but effective family-planning policies that protect all of the interests at stake.
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Cory Booker's New Jersey enacted protections for abortion providers while expanding access to family planning for low-income men and women.
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He's routinely funneled family planning money into crisis pregnancy centers and nonprofits that hope to siphon patients away from Planned Parenthood.
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We can also assume, though, that pretty much all of them would receive the benefit of birth control in family planning.
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Now the Chinese government has announced the Family Planning Commission will be dismantled as the administration moves away from population control.
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The women were asked if they had had sex in the last month and were currently using a family planning method.
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This year's rule changes for the Title X Family Planning Program have hurt people who are struggling to make ends meet.
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I have lived in Africa for 12 years fighting for reproductive health rights, AIDS prevention and treatment, family planning, malaria prevention.
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New Jersey will soon restore millions of dollars in funding to Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics in the state.
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A coalition of anti-abortion groups is calling on the Trump administration to cut Planned Parenthood off from family planning grants.
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This would have ended a 2628-year bipartisan history of supporting women and families through family planning and reproductive-health services.
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They are ill-equipped to do family planning or screen for sexually transmitted diseases — they refer those patients to Planned Parenthood.
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Volunteers acted as "model families", gathering women over coffee, or at church or in mosques, to promote family planning and hygiene.
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Under Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr., these policies applied only to NGOs seeking funding for family planning and reproductive health.
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Also, an unlikely Senate pair are championing medical marijuana and House Republicans are pushing for abortion restrictions in family planning grants.
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The researchers used the data to model the impact of state initiatives to limit access to family planning clinics and abortions.
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A year later the state excluded Planned Parenthood from a joint federal-state program that funded family planning and cancer screenings.
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She also asks questions that might uncover stressors related to family planning, like relationship problems or uncertainty about age and fertility.
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While in Sierra Leone she developed empowerment groups for women, teaching them about family planning and how to earn an income.
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It has channeled funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and family planning grants into programs that emphasize sexual abstinence over contraception.
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Such tactics could also, ironically, harm the quality of family-planning care for the very women they are intended to help.
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The group says its Texas affiliates use Medicaid funding for family planning and women's health services separate from its abortion services.
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Millions of low-income patients receive reproductive health services each year through Title X, a $286 million federal family planning initiative.
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In 227, the state successfully cut the network of clinics out of its public family planning program for low-income women.
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When researchers and doctors talk about different methods of family planning, they normally use two metrics: user failure and method failure.
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Title X provides grants that fund family planning, STD screening, and breast and cervical cancer screening at nearly 4,000 sites nationwide.
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The law also required these centers to list information about California's family planning services, which includes access to low-cost abortion.
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"There is an increasing tension and anxiety in the field," said Jessica Marcella of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
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Dr. Marguerite Duane, the head of Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (or FACTS, a natural family planning awareness group), told BuzzFeed News the day after the announcement that she was extremely pleased with the new guidelines, and felt that they would enable women to have affordable access to a larger range of family planning options.
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The lawsuits cite the fact that new funding criteria for Title X family planning grants released by the Trump administration in February cut requirements for grant-recipients to offer "a full range of FDA-approved contraceptive methods," which were emphasized in previous Title X funding announcements, and instead highlights the importance of teaching "natural family planning" methods.
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Trump quietly signed bill to exclude Planned Parenthood from family planning funding Why you should care: As we wrote on March 198403 when the Senate approved the bill, this piece of legislation allows states to withhold Title X family planning funding from health clinics that provide abortions outside the cases of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life.
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Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Wednesday as it seeks to block conservative changes to the family planning grant program known as Title X. Planned Parenthood argues that the administration is violating the purpose of the law setting up the family planning program — providing contraception — and in favor of promoting a conservative-backed focus on abstinence until marriage.
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But the Trump administration has signaled it may do just that, in a recent announcement about funding for a major family planning program, Title X. Since 1970, the federal government has awarded Title X grants to providers of family planning services — including contraception, cervical cancer screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted infections — to help low-income women afford them.
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To qualify for Title X money under the new policy, an organization would have to have "a bright line of physical as well as financial separation" between family planning programs and facilities where abortion is "performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning," according to a summary of the proposal obtained by The New York Times.
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The Affordable Care Act requires employers to cover certain essential benefits related to family planning, but IVF isn't included as a requirement.
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Last year, "All the stars aligned," said Dr. Jyoti Vajpayee, a gynecologist who oversees family planning programs here for the Gates Foundation.
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The National Health and Family Planning Commission did not respond to questions for this article that were submitted, as requested, by fax.
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"That doesn't mean a couple has to have a child," he said, because it is possible to use natural family planning methods.
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The Family Planning Association, a U.K.-based charity, told the Guardian it was concerned about Natural Cycles billing itself as a contraceptive.
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It's also insanely rude to question someone else's family planning decisions — not that Linda seems to care very much about being polite.
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Consistent with this "repeal what works" approach to reproductive health, Congress this year may slash funding for international family planning as well.
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Most termination clinics offer a wide variety of family planning services, so I don't think it's fair to call them abortion clinics.
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But all of the states, except California, also extended this benefit to include one other, far less popular family planning method: Vasectomy.
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In a sign that it would further relax curbs, China's health commission said in September that it would abolish family planning offices.
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In January, Zhejiang reported 35 infections of the H7N363 strain of bird flu, according to the provincial Health and Family Planning Commission.
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Low-income women can receive access to free or low-cost family planning services through California's Medi-Cali and Family PACT programs.
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The number of abortions in Venezuela has grown in recent months, according to workers at family planning clinics and women's rights advocates.
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The country's leading Islamic authority, Al Azhar, has endorsed the government plans and stressed that family planning is not forbidden by God.
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He's also overlooking the fact that pulling funding from family planning services like Planned Parenthood doesn't actually decrease the number of abortions.
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This is illegal, with China's National Health and Family Planning Commission issuing a notice in 2017 banning the export of human blood.
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Implemented by every Republican administration since 2000, the policy in the past applied to U.S. family planning funds, or about $600 million.
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Project Drawdown has found that reproductive justice and family planning is one of the top solutions for reducing the world's carbon load.
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Congress also proposed a complete elimination of the Title X family planning program, which funds research and community clinics across the country.
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A painted rock with an illustration of a hanger crossed out is part of a display outside Little Rock Family Planning Services.
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By 270, according to a new survey by the health and family-planning commission, the share had fallen to 256% (see chart).
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Newborn girls were killed, removed by family-planning officials or abandoned by parents desperate that their one permitted baby be a boy.
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Implemented by every Republican administration since 2000, the policy in the past applied to U.S. family planning funds, or about $261 million.
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The news released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission late on Tuesday brings the death toll since October to 100.
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And like Booker, Sanders, Warren, Gillibrand, O'Rourke and Hickenlooper stated that they would also increase the budget for Title X family planning.
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On Friday, the Trump administration announced plans to resurrect a rule banning federally funded family planning clinics from discussing abortion with patients.
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A new rule would make family planning clinics that provide abortion services or referrals for abortions ineligible for Title 25 government funding.
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The only other abortion clinic in Arkansas, Little Rock Family Planning Services in the state capital, offers both surgical and medication abortions.
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Jamila Perritt, MD, is a board certified, fellowship-trained obstetrician and gynecologist with a comprehensive background in family planning and reproductive health.
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There are more than 100 counties in the US where Planned Parenthood is the only safety-net provider of family planning services.
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"The protections are simply not permanent," said Audrey Sandusky, director of advocacy and communications at the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association.
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The foreign assistance budget supports families around the globe through low-cost interventions – such as family planning – that generate high-impact results.
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Expect to see family-planning restrictions pop up around the country, especially in the 13 states that have already passed them once.
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Those amounts are significantly lower than the $103 million the United States spent on family planning in Egypt between 210 and 236.
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President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday allowing states to withhold federal family planning funds from health care providers that perform abortions.
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Women can no longer be charged more than men for our basic health care -- and access to family planning must be covered.
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Every $1 invested in family planning services yields up to $6 in savings on public services from health to housing, studies show.
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The Obama administration made it illegal for states to withhold these family planning dollars from health clinics simply because they provide abortions.
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Good for her: It's always smart to discuss family planning and fertility with a doctor to help guide your decision-making process.
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The law applies to any facility in California that provides family planning and pregnancy-related services, such as ultrasounds and pregnancy tests.
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He could also be asked about Medicaid work requirements, proposed changes to the Title X Family Planning Program and the opioid crisis.
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Trouble is, no medical provider — offering family planning advice or any other medical care — may ethically withhold important information from a patient.
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Marie Stopes International (MSI) offers programs around the world to help women and girls access contraception, family planning, abortion, and other services.
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The law applies to any facilities in California that provide family planning and pregnancy-related services, such as ultrasounds and pregnancy tests.
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In fact, ensuring access to voluntary family planning is the primary strategy recommended by the CDC to reduce Zika-related pregnancy complications.
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As Congress finally negotiates funding for a comprehensive response to Zika, family planning must be part of the response, globally and domestically.
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Let's put women and families at the center of our Zika response and fund family planning as a part of that relief.
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The Jamaican National Family Planning Board said it is reviewing its position on abortion after appointment of new board members this month.
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All the while, the president's budget requests have either eliminated or slashed U.S. foreign assistance for international reproductive health and family planning.
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At least one other, Maine Family Planning, the only Title X grantee in the state, has also announced that it will depart.
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And for predominantly low income, uninsured women who have few other options for family planning services, this change will hit especially hard.
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The rules would affect organizations that provide health care through Title X, a law intended to strengthen access to family planning services.
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Planned Parenthood receives federal funds from Medicaid reimbursements and Title X, a federal program that supports family planning and preventive health services.
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Her care is completely covered by Title X, the only federal grant program dedicated to comprehensive family planning and preventative health care.
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President Clinton quickly rescinded the policy and replaced it with a mandate that family planning services providers must provide an abortion referral.
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The guidance "restricted states' ability to take certain actions against family-planning providers that offer abortion services," HHS said in a statement.
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Many family planning clinics are doused in baby pink and the walls are adorned with photos of cis-women holding their children.
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And Planned Parenthood is an important provider of healthcare services, including family planning and cancer screenings for millions of Americans, particularly women.
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Domestically, Mr. Trump has moved to restrict family planning funding, an issue where Democrats had hoped that Ms. Trump would have influence.
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Even as government and doctors encourage long-acting family planning methods, the last several years have dramatically affected the data you discuss.
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Previous Republican administrations limited the policy to family planning providers; the Trump administration extended the gag rule to all global health providers.
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As I said, we are the biggest provider of family planning in Madagascar, so it will affect the whole country's service provision.
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Title X's $286 million budget helps provide family planning services including birth control and STD screenings to low-income and uninsured people.
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Under the strict family planning policy in effect at the time, this meant that Kan's parents should have considered their household complete.
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The couple proposed that Planned Parenthood simply give up abortion services, and then let Jared lobby Congress for more family planning funding.
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Now he's built a Department of Health and Human Services that wants to promote family planning methods that involve … not having sex.
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Funding for the health department's Title X grants program — called "America's family planning program" — remains stable despite Trump's proposal to eliminate it.
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This is the guy who's got a woman who doesn't believe in contraception in charge of a government program on family planning.
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Patty Murray (D-Washington) -- Planned Parenthood patient Emma Bosley, who received medical care through the federal family planning program Title X Sen.
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And wait, there's more: Trump's reported choice to run the government's programs on family planning is someone who doesn't believe contraception works.
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Under the law, government agencies will provide modern family planning services, including free contraceptives and prenatal care to all women and families.
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Mr. Trump immediately reinstated the "gag rule" denying federal funds to overseas organizations that include abortion as part of family planning services.
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Individuals should always be free to act on their religious or moral beliefs in personal matters such as pregnancy and family planning.
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Across the United States, a large share of Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics are losing funding under the new regulations.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday approved federal family planning funding for a Texas program that excludes providers who perform or promote abortions.
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The Trump administration has already rolled back the Obama-era rule that prevented states from denying family-planning funds to Planned Parenthood.
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Her parents have not discussed family-planning options, and she confided in me that she doubts they ever will for religious reasons.
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A growing body of research over the past few decades shows that family planning services contribute to healthier lives and stronger economies.
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China's National Health and Family Planning Commission has banned sales of live poultry in some areas across eastern, southern and southwestern China.
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Estimates of deaths averted due to family planning rely on child mortality rates and maternal mortality ratios, which are measures of risk.
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Democrats also pushed for the spending bill to include language protecting the Title X family planning program from changes, but that's unlikely.
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Located in an aging brick building in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, PHS is a family planning clinic specializing in reproductive health care.
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Two people have left the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following a tumultuous rollout of a federal family planning program.
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He also expanded the policy to negatively impact international health programs for HIV, maternal and child health, malaria, family planning, and Zika.
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This will include groups providing humanitarian aid to girls and women raped in war, work that is, by no definition, family planning.
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McMaster said there were a variety of taxpayer-funded medical agencies that provided women's health and family planning services without performing abortions.
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Five different vignettes tell the viewer about some of the nonprofit health system's services, including cancer screenings, family planning, and abortion care.
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China has tried to combat its demographic challenge by loosening centrally controlled family planning policies and encouraging citizens to have more children.
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And if Price thinks otherwise, that means he doesn't really understand how the nation's safety-net family planning network works at all.
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Title X grants are awarded on a competitive basis to clinics that meet the program's standards for family planning coverage and services.
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The White House proposed a gag rule to restrict family planning funding from clinics and hospitals that conduct or refer for abortion.
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Initially, the actor hesitated and simply said, "I don't know," a perfectly reasonable response to having a stranger ask you about family planning.
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He and other Catholic scholars cited a study showing that when used properly, natural family planning is as effective as birth control pills.
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Egypt's Al-Azhar university, a 1,000-year-old seat of Islamic learning, endorsed the ministry's plan and said family planning is not forbidden.
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It has relied heavily on USAID funding for family planning initiatives, which have prevented thousands of unplanned pregnancies and maternal deaths in Malawi.
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Jeannine Assani, the regional coordinator for ABEF, a Congolese family planning and reproductive health organization, regularly deals with the ramifications of the law.
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Many husbands and fathers-in-law have the final say about young women's reproductive futures, and they often say no to family planning.
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The change would impact the Title X program, which provides family planning services to about 4 million people a year, according to HHS.
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"I do think the Trump administration will keep not funding abortion internationally and will cut back on family planning," O'Malley told BuzzFeed News.
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Trump's order was also overly broad, encompassing any overseas organization that receives US aid and not simply those in the family planning sector.
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The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to create new barriers for family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood, to providing and discussing abortions.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration has set new rules for Title X, a federal family-planning grant programme dating back to the Nixon administration.
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The health and family-planning commission found that 4% of child migrants in Beijing and 5% in Shanghai were not enrolled in 2012.
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Should the Trump administration move forward with the rule, however, it would have a drastic effect on other family planning clinics as well.
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"It would be extraordinarily damaging to patients' access to abortion care," Lori Williams, the clinical director of Little Rock Family Planning, told Vox.
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Rather, family planning probably isn't a huge hangup for you — for the most part, you have that part of your life figured out.
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To recap: The former head of two crisis pregnancy centers will single-handedly get to dole out $260 million in family planning grants.
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Though it will be unable to service abortions, the center will stay open to provide other family planning care, according to Planned Parenthood.
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She was unaware that the clinic does not offer condoms or other kinds of birth control beyond so-called natural family planning methods.
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An umbrella group representing family planning clinics, including those not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, said the administration is trying to impose its ideology.
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The report said state funding cuts to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates had an adverse effect on family planning for lower-income people.
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In 2012 Gates co-chaired the Family Planning 2020 summit, which pledged to get 120 million women access to birth control by 2020.
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To compensate for the end of Title X, Maine Family Planning is trying to raise private donations and find other public funding sources.
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She started visiting Maine Family Planning for birth control after having an abortion, and asked to be identified only by her middle name.
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Trump's version goes further because it applies to any organisation that receives funding from US Aid, not just those involved in family planning.
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Planned Parenthood's website says at least 60% of its patients nationwide are on Medicaid or qualify for federal Title X family planning funds.
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This $79,000 project targeting 200,000 people increased modern family planning from 8 percent to 85033 percent, and dramatically improved maternal and child health.
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Family planning, which encompasses birth control, prenatal care and financial counseling actually saves health systems money since families have less, and healthier children.
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United States leadership is key in meeting this need, and stopping preventable maternal and child deaths by expanding access to family planning services.
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Family planning and abortion care allow individuals to decide for themselves whether to become parents or add to the families they already have.
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Planned Parenthood strongly opposes President Trump's willingness to undermine millions of women's access to birth control through the Title X family planning program.
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Trump's signature gave individual states the ability to keep family planning funds that pay for services such as birth control from certain clinics.
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There are scores of startups making fertility tracker and family planning apps today, but a Consumer Reports investigation has singled out Glow Inc.
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China's strict family planning policies and traditional preference for boys have often made baby girls more vulnerable to abandonment, particularly in rural areas.
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Sandberg said the work of "comprehensive family planning" to "prevent unintended pregnancies, deaths and abortions" will become much harder with Trump's executive order.
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This isn't easy: In many of these countries, family planning is nonexistent, condoms are out of reach for some, and abortion is illegal.
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The Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission denounced the legitimacy of the hospital ethics committee and the review process that approved the application.
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This year, the City of Baltimore challenged the Trump administration's "gag rule" banning recipients of Title X family planning funds from discussing abortion.
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They are currently working on a family planning project which will bring birth control to 21980 million women in developing countries by 230.
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Under federal regulations, you won't need your parents' consent to access services at any clinics funded by the Title X family planning program.
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Family planning providers were required to maintain independence from the prohibited abortion activities by the use of separate facilities, personnel, and accounting records.
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It may well constitute malpractice, and that is what The Trump administration is mandating for any provider who accepts federal family planning funding.
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In fact, in 2014, publicly funded family planning services helped prevent 2 million unintended pregnancies, which would have likely resulted in 85033,000 abortions.
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Equity Forward is particularly concerned about the future of the Title X program, a federally funded family planning program long criticized by conservatives.
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On Monday, an outspoken Roman Catholic bishop accused the health minister of using the scare over Zika to suggest people practice family planning.
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Title X is the federal government's only grant program solely dedicated to funding organizations that offer family planning services to low-income women.
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The new rules specifically target Title X Family Planning grants, which help fund organizations that assist low-income women with their reproductive health.
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However, it could be far more effective in reaching its goal if it addressed family planning and the empowerment of girls and women.
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Both lawmakers opposed efforts by GOP leaders last year to defund Planned Parenthood, a major provider of family-planning services in their states.
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Today, it operates nursing homes, orphanages, soup kitchens and family planning centers — all free of charge — as well as Pakistan's largest ambulance service.
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The Irish Family Planning Association said at least 166,951 women traveled from Ireland to another country for an abortion from 1980 through 2015.
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In 1970 Congress passed Title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide tax-supported family planning services for low-income Americans.
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And unlike Natural Cycles, the app doesn't present itself as a form of contraception, noting to speak to a doctor about family planning.
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Recently, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the Trump administration's updated regulations for the Title X Family Planning Program.
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Reynolds told The Des Moines Register on Friday that the plan would help extend access to family planning resources, especially in rural communities.
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Compared with the cost of putting boots on the ground, the cost of "upstream" solutions like family planning and girls' education is small.
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The study, published earlier this month in the European Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, looked at data from two previous studies.
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The US government could boost family planning aid, although it can't help with abortion services due to the restrictions under the Helms amendment.
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The administration also proposed regulations that would no longer permit federally funded family planning services at the same place where abortions are provided.
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The policy precluded the use of any U.S. federal monies for international family planning organizations that provided abortion services or abortion-related counseling.
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Trump also signed an executive order banning taxpayer money to any nongovernmental organizations that even mention abortion in the context of family planning.
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Sometimes [mobile clinic workers] use existing means of transportation, like boat or train, to get to a site to deliver family planning services.
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How are we going to deny them, again, the access to family planning and birth control they used to get from our organization?
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In the process, both states gave up millions of dollars of federal funding and set up their own state-run family planning programs.
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Joined by counsellors and outreach workers, they provide safe-sex guidance, offer advice on family planning, and deliver on-the-spot HIV testing.
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It's worth noting that Bible-thumping blowhards like Roy Moore don't help achieve those values, while investments in education and family planning do.
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There is a proposed gag rule in the Trump administration's approach to federally funded family planning that would disproportionately impact low-income patients.
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The US government could boost family planning aid, although it can't help with abortion services due to the restrictions under the Helms amendment.
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Mr. Trump has also taken particular aim at Planned Parenthood, which serves 41 percent of women who receive federally funded family planning services.
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Instead, it has announced that the United States will cut its annual contribution to the United Nations Population Fund, which promotes family planning.
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Family planning policies, sometimes enforced with sterilizations and abortions, have ended, but left a lasting imprint on policies and attitudes, Mr. Yi said.
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Manning, who, like Yoest, has argued that abortions cause breast cancer, is going to be in charge of all federal family planning programs.
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But women and young people led the revolt, knowing that Trumpcare would take aim at maternity benefits, family planning and affordable health care.
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"We're afraid we're going to lose a critical part of the public health infrastructure," says George Hill, the president of Maine Family Planning.
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After retiring from the W.H.O., he directed the International Planned Parenthood Federation, in London, focusing on reproductive rights and family planning, until 1995.
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But he stresses that its message, about the importance of education and access to family-planning services, applies to the developing world, too.
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The new space will host free events and workshops for members related to parenting, including family planning and effective sleep and toilet training.
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Family planning charity Marie Stopes International said teenage pregnancy often meant the end to a girl's education and a lifetime with fewer opportunities.
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The administration could also change the eligibility requirements in order to favor clinics seeking to promote "natural" family planning instead of modern contraceptives.
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By allowing women around the world access to family planning tools, Gates says communities would see increased health, economic development and gender equality.
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All of them want to undo President Trump's Title X rules, which similarly restrict family planning funding for organizations within the United States.
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In many developing countries, these small clinics that will lose their funding provide family planning, maternal health, education, prevention and cancer screening services.
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The Republican-controlled Congress passed legislation last year allowing states to withhold federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
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Those rules also emphasized that female employees could obtain contraceptives at family-planning clinics as an alternative to seeking them through health insurance.
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Singling out Planned Parenthood, and not other family planning providers, could be considered an "extraneous matter" that isn't relevant to the federal budget.
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One woman representative, Georgia Congresswoman Karen Handel, made the list for her attacks on Planned Parenthood and the country's federal family-planning program.
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Some went further, saying China should forget about trying to control births and even remove all references to family planning from the constitution.
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The administration certainly seems to be going out of its way to make it difficult for women to get help with family planning.
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