Anti-Family Planning Leader Mike Pence Introduces Bill to De-Fund Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), after a failed attempt to de-fund international family planning efforts, has turned his attention to making contraception more difficult to access in the United States. Yesterday, Pence introduced a bill to eliminate federal funding to the nation's largest contraception provider, Planned Parenthood. Pence's bill comes packaged as an attack on abortion, its titled Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, but the stated goal is to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X funding for the contraceptive services it offers. Only 3% of the health care services Planned Parenthood provides are abortion services while contraception represents 37% of services it provides. One third of Planned Parenthood’s operating budget is government grants. Last year, Planned Parenthood supplied pregnancy prevention services to over 4 million Americans and, it is estimated, prevented over 630,000 unintended pregnancies. Attempting to de-fund Planned Parenthood is a head-on attack on Americans' right to plan their families. Planned Parenthood often is the only source of family planning for a large proportion of the women it serves. Pence and his anti-family planning extremists would like you to think this is an anti-abortion bill but, if passed, it will lead to a lot more.
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11/09/2007 04:50:00 PM
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