Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches

Comment: In what looks like deliberate obstruction (right out of the Project 2025 playbook), birth control access for low-income patients is in jeopardy. The Department of Health and Human Services delayed sending guidance and applications for renewal of Title X funding for more than two months after the usual December 31 deadline. Now applicants have been given only one week to submit their applications for grant renewal.

March 17, 2026 – Heard on All Things Considered Link: NPR.org

Excerpt: “Despite the low profile, she says, Title X (as in the number 10) is incredibly important. The program, which was signed into law by President Nixon in 1970, helps health centers provide birth control and sexually transmitted infection treatment and testing to people without health insurance. For low-income patients, the services are free. Title X does not pay for abortion care.”

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