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This steams my clams! If you are pro-life this prevents thousands of abortions (363,000 in 2012 alone, see article) every year. If you are pro-choice, this is a reproductive choice issue.
Title X provides family planning and reproductive health services to low-income women.
While the headlines of late have all been about gay marriage,lethal injection, and the Affordable Care Act, a major strike against women’s health care has been quietly mounting in Washington.
In preparing its budget proposal for the upcoming year, the GOP-led Congress has made moves to fully eliminate Title X, the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related reproductive health services, including contraception.
However, there’s evidence that Title X saves taxpayers money: For every public dollar invested in family planning, the American taxpayer saves approximately $7 in Medicaid-related costs. Nearly half of all births in the U.S. are paid for by Medicaid, the health care program for low-income families and individuals; the average national cost for one Medicaid-covered birth is $12,770. This is a stark contrast to the $239 per-client cost of publicly funded contraceptive care through Title X family planning. It is estimated, then, that Title X saves taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year.
There’s also evidence that Title X prevents unintended pregnancies — 1.1 million in 2012, to be exact, according to the Guttmacher Institute. These pregnancies would have resulted in 527,000 unplanned births and 363,000 abortions. Without the services provided by Title X — which include Pap smears, breast exams, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection screenings, and HIV tests — it is estimated that the number of unplanned births and abortions would be 66 percent higher.
Full article https://www.yahoo.com/health/title-x-the-federal-family-planning-program-is-123492140982.html
Email your Senator today! Tell them you support Title X funding, just a line or two is all you need, the assistants will just keep a count of the sentiment, very few emails will even be read. Do a little something for the rights of (poor) women today.
Here is the US Congress website
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Here is the House of Representatives official government site
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Title X provides family planning and reproductive health services to low-income women.
While the headlines of late have all been about gay marriage,lethal injection, and the Affordable Care Act, a major strike against women’s health care has been quietly mounting in Washington.
In preparing its budget proposal for the upcoming year, the GOP-led Congress has made moves to fully eliminate Title X, the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related reproductive health services, including contraception.
However, there’s evidence that Title X saves taxpayers money: For every public dollar invested in family planning, the American taxpayer saves approximately $7 in Medicaid-related costs. Nearly half of all births in the U.S. are paid for by Medicaid, the health care program for low-income families and individuals; the average national cost for one Medicaid-covered birth is $12,770. This is a stark contrast to the $239 per-client cost of publicly funded contraceptive care through Title X family planning. It is estimated, then, that Title X saves taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year.
There’s also evidence that Title X prevents unintended pregnancies — 1.1 million in 2012, to be exact, according to the Guttmacher Institute. These pregnancies would have resulted in 527,000 unplanned births and 363,000 abortions. Without the services provided by Title X — which include Pap smears, breast exams, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection screenings, and HIV tests — it is estimated that the number of unplanned births and abortions would be 66 percent higher.
Full article https://www.yahoo.com/health/title-x-the-federal-family-planning-program-is-123492140982.html
Email your Senator today! Tell them you support Title X funding, just a line or two is all you need, the assistants will just keep a count of the sentiment, very few emails will even be read. Do a little something for the rights of (poor) women today.
Here is the US Congress website
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Here is the House of Representatives official government site
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
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I'm glad they had access, but I do feel it is sooooo preventable. I wish no one ever had to go through it, but it's a reality and something that needs to be available.
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