Title X Family Planning Funding
Title X is the nation's only federal program dedicated to providing family planning services for those in need. Since 1970, it has supplied crucial reproductive health care for low-income women and families who often have nowhere else to turn.
More than 17 million women cannot afford reproductive health care services. As a result, low-income women are far more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than other women.
Each year Title X enables family planning health centers to provide reproductive health care services to five million women — helping them plan pregnancies, prevent sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and detect breast and cervical cancer.
Recognizing the importance of Title X, Congress increased funding for the program by $16.8 million in fiscal year 2008 — the largest increase in a decade. However, Title X funding has not kept pace with inflation or the growing ranks of the uninsured.
We cannot afford to fall short of the mark on Title X. The stakes are too high.
Birth control is basic health care, and contraception should be available to all women, regardless of their income. Help Planned Parenthood ensure that every woman, man, and teen has access to the prevention services and information they need to protect their health and their futures.
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