Tag: Title X

Project 2025 called for limiting reproductive healthcare. The Trump administration appears to be following through.

Comment: This author explicitly ties administration Title X guidelines to the proposals in the conservative playbook "Project 2025" and the views of right-wing media and influencers. Their goal is to eliminate hormonal birth control ("the pill") while extolling the virtues of fertility and the traditional nuclear family.

The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

Comment: In this OpEd in The New York Times (paywalled) the author decries the new administration guidelines on the Title X family planning and reproductive health care program. She details provisions that turn Title X from a highly successful program that reduced unwanted pregnancies (and correspondingly prevented millions of abortions), to a Project 2025-based program for increasing birthrates at any cost.

US Dept of HHS moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, towards conception

Comment: The conservative attack on birth control is embodied in new guidelines for the federal Title X "family planning" program that does not mention contraception other than an assertion that "medical and surgical treatments" are overprescribed, have negative side effects, and are part of a broader “overreliance on pharmaceutical and surgical treatments.”

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 … Continue reading Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches