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Being forced to have a child against ones will is a form of female enslavement.
The only federal program dedicated to family planning will be critical to the job of providing and expanding women’s health care under the Affordable Care Act. But several states are attempting to restrict Title X at the very time it is needed most.
Judges delivered partial victories for legal activists working to block abortion restrictions in Texas and Oklahoma. But the fight goes on in Texas where state officials are battling back and medication abortions face two new, high hurdles.
The battle over funding Planned Parenthood created a media feeding frenzy in several states this summer. The angry buzz boils down to a few key questions about states’ power to cut funding and impose prohibitive regulations.
New Jersey Planned Parenthood clinics lost 10 percent of their budget in a single stroke of the governor’s pen. Now a clinic supervisor talks about heavier work load, streamlined procedures and some lost clients.
Funding attacks on Planned Parenthood clinics are crimping birth-control services for low-income, uninsured women, data from New Jersey’s Planned Parenthood shows. Health reform in 2014 could turn the whole situation around.
