GOP Funding Cuts – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

22 Mar

Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches

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A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress is calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall for reproductive health clinics in less than two weeks.

21 Mar

Millions of Americans are about to lose access to birth control. Why?

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Untold numbers will get sick as a result. Clinics are scrambling, and no one seems to be able to explain why this is happening

20 Mar

NH’s Pappas and Over 120 Members Urge HHS to Fund Title X Grants to Protect Critical Reproductive Care After Significant Delay

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Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and over 120 Members sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy urging him to extend Title X grants that provide critical family planning funding to health care centers across the country after HHS failed to provide guidance for months. Title X-funded health centers are lifelines in their communities, providing high-quality family planning and sexual health care, including cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing, contraceptive services and supplies, pregnancy testing, and other essential health care services.

20 Mar

Birth control clinics rush to reapply for funding after receiving new Trump admin guidance

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Federally-funded clinics that provide contraception and other reproductive health services have one week to apply for new grants after the Trump administration released long-delayed guidance Friday night. Current funding runs out April 1.

16 Mar

VG Senator Warner, Colleagues Demand HHS Immediately Release Title X Funding

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Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined 38 colleagues in sending a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding that HHS take immediate action to protect Americans’ uninterrupted access to comprehensive family planning and services by awarding a one-year full funding extension for all current Title X grantees.

12 Mar

‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff

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Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federal government continues to delay the funding process.

09 Jan

Filling in the Gap in Federal Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood: State Responses

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In a policy action long sought after by abortion opponents, the federal government now has codified a ban on Medicaid funds that support care provided at Planned Parenthood clinics and other locations. Section 71113 of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law, prevents Medicaid payments to certain reproductive health care entities that provide abortion care for one year from the date of enactment. This ban includes all services including contraceptive care, preventive care, and other services, not only abortion. Based on the criteria in the law, three entities, Planned Parenthood affiliates, Maine Family Planning and Health Imperatives have been blocked from receiving federal Medicaid revenue. A handful of states, however, have announced they will fill in current gaps created by losses in federal funding…

19 Dec

Moments of hope in a year of turmoil

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Cuts to humanitarian aid funding by the US government and other international donors disrupted care and key programs safeguarding the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, while conflicts, natural disasters, and climate-related events continued to put communities at risk. But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responded to many of these crises, they also bore witness to moments of hope shining a light on the prevailing human spirit in moments of adversity.

16 Dec

Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

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Survey by world’s largest network for sexual and reproductive health shows devastation to services, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and amplification of anti-rights voices

05 Dec

Judge blocks Planned Parenthood ‘defund’ provision for 22 states and DC

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A federal judge has once again blocked a controversial provision barring federal Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofit reproductive health providers. But this time, she’s ruling in a different case with a different set of arguments.

02 Dec

Seaside (Oregon) loses trusted labor and delivery unit, reflecting a growing rural healthcare challenge in the Northwest

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On a recent afternoon in Seaside, Oregon, Heather Murdoch-Medema packed up her apartment, categorizing which boxes would go into storage and which she would take with her to her new home in Portland.

01 Dec

State Variations in the Role of the Reproductive Health Safety Net for Contraceptive Care Among Medicaid Enrollees

AlanLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Medicaid, Reproductive rights, United States

Medicaid is a major source of coverage for contraceptive care for millions of people. Many Medicaid patients rely on a range of safety net providers including Planned Parenthood clinics, community health centers, state and local health departments, and Indian Health Services for their contraceptive care. The composition of the safety net and the relative role of the different providers vary considerably from state to state.

24 Nov

Experts warn funding cuts risk setbacks in reproductive health

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Experts call for sustainable financing to make up for funding shortfall for family planning and sexual and reproductive health.

07 Nov

Centra South Side Community Hospital to close labor and delivery unit in Farmville

CoreyLatest NewsFederal Funding Cuts, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States, Virginia

Virginia’s South Side maternal health care desert is about to get a little drier. Centra Southside Community Hospital plans to discontinue its labor and delivery services mid-December as part of a consolidation of women’s health care with Centra’s Lynchburg locations.

23 Aug

Planned Parenthood bets on redistricting to push back against GOP funding cuts

RandyLatest NewsCalifornia, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Redistricting, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion rights groups are backing California Democrats in the escalating battle to redraw congressional maps, warning that Republicans are rigging seats on the heels of deeply unpopular cuts to safety net health programs and restrictions on reproductive care.