Title X Family Planning

Mitt Romney's $10,000 Question on Choice

Nancy Keenan | Posted 02.12.2012

Nancy Keenan

Given Romney's swift embrace of extreme anti-choice policies, reporters and voters likely have some questions for him -- even though he decided against attending Huckabee's upcoming forum on abortion.

Laura Bassett

Republicans Revive Mission For Controversial Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.04.2011

WASHINGTON -- Title X, the federal family planning grant that funds birth control and preventative health services for more than five million low-inco...

The Republican Plan for Planned Parenthood

Linda Flanagan | Posted 11.20.2011

Linda Flanagan

"Defund Planned Parenthood" has become a rallying cry of the right nationwide, and an ideological purity test, despite the fact that the United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the industrialized world.

Laura Bassett

Kansas Planned Parenthood Ruling Could Protect It In Other States

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 10.01.2011

A federal judge in Kansas issued another victory for Planned Parenthood on Monday, temporarily blocking the implementation of a law that would have de...

Laura Bassett

The State War On Planned Parenthood Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.13.2011

When 21-year old Christina Martel would renew her birth control prescription at Planned Parenthood, it was usually a relatively simple affair. But thi...

Laura Bassett

Planned Parenthood Defunded In New Hampshire

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.10.2011

Until July 1, a low-income New Hampshire woman paid an average of $5 to fill a birth control pill prescription at any of the state's six Planned Paren...

Laura Bassett

Two More States Try To Pull Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.20.2011

Lawmakers in Wisconsin and Tennessee advanced legislation this week to pull state funding from Planned Parenthood because some of its clinics offer ab...

Laura Bassett

Kansas Anti-Abortion Bill Could Also Block Planned Parenthood Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Kansas state legislature passed a bill early Friday morning that bans insurance companies from offering abortion coverage in their g...

The Republican Attack on Women

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 06.12.2011

Rep. Mike Honda

Title X saves the U.S. taxpayer at least $3.4 billion in health care costs annually. If Republicans plan to defund one of the largest providers of these services, they need to suggest an alternative.

Amanda Terkel

GOP Facing Grassroots Pressure Over 'War On Contraception'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Women's-rights activists are taking the fight to preserve family-planning funding outside the Beltway, calling on grassroots activists t...