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By Carrie N. Baker | On March 31, the Trump administration sent letters to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other reproductive health clinics in 20 states announcing a freeze of close to $35 million in federal Title X funding as of April 1. Title X is a federal program that provides affordable birth control, cancer screenings and other sexual and reproductive health care to low-income women.
“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Since 1970, the Title X program has helped millions of women get reproductive healthcare. More than 300 Planned Parenthood health centers are in the Title X network—three-quarters of all Planned Parenthood affiliates. In 2023, there were more than 1.5 million visits to Title X-funded Planned Parenthood health centers. Overall in 2023, Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers provided over 400,000 cancer screening and prevention services, over 2 million birth control services, and over 5 million STI services.
“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens,” said McGill Johnson.
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