He said the Trump administration regulation "would fundamentally compromise the relationship our patients have with us as trusted providers of this most personal and private health care. It is simply wrong to deny patients accurate information about and access to abortion care. Facebook Twitter Email.
Show Caption. Hide Caption. Official: Safety prioritized over abortion access. A Missouri health official says patient safety takes priority over access to abortion after a judge holds another hearing on a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood to allow the state's only abortion clinic to keep its license. June 5. Share your feedback to help improve our site! Women with cancer, diabetes, or heart conditions, or whose pregnancies otherwise threaten their health, are denied coverage for abortions.
Only if a woman would otherwise die, or if her pregnancy results from rape or incest, is an abortion covered. The bans thus put many women's health in jeopardy. Medicaid offers comprehensive reproductive health care, including family planning, prenatal care, and services related to childbirth. By singling out abortion for exclusion, politicians have attempted to impose their own choices on poor women. How have women on Medicaid paid for abortions since the Hyde Amendment? Federal funding restrictions have left some women on Medicaid little choice but to use money they need for food, rent, clothing, or other necessities to pay for an abortion.
Some even resorted to pawning household goods to come up with the necessary cash. Other women have been forced to carry their pregnancies to term or to seek illegal abortions. Studies have shown that from 18 to 35 percent of Medicaid-eligible women who want abortions, but who live in states that do not provide funding for abortion, have been forced to carry their pregnancies to term.
Because the costs associated with childbirth, neonatal and pediatric care greatly exceed the costs of abortion, public funding for abortion neither costs the taxpayer money nor drains resources from other services.
Our tax dollars fund many programs that individual people oppose. For example, those who oppose war on moral or religious grounds pay taxes that are applied to military programs. The congressional bans on abortion funding impose a particular religious or moral viewpoint on those women who rely on government-funded health care.
Providing funding for abortion does not encourage or compel women to have abortions, but denying funding compels many women to carry their pregnancies to term.
Nondiscriminatory funding would simply place the profoundly personal decision about how to treat a pregnancy back where it belongs -- in the hands of the woman who must live with the consequences of that decision. These women are eligible, however, to receive all other pregnancy-related services.
See Hope v. Perales , N. See Alaska v. In , the Trump administration effectively boxed out Planned Parenthood from Title X funding by updating the requirements for recipients.
Under the new rule, recipients of Title X grants must not be co-located with abortion clinics and cannot refer for abortions-requirements that Planned Parenthood clinics refused to abide by. Rather than comply with the regulations, Planned Parenthood withdrew from the program in August of Since that act occurred after the end of the fiscal year, the forfeited revenue would not necessarily be reflected in the numbers in its latest annual report.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, for his part, has said he would reinstate the Obama administration's Title X policy, allowing clinics who refer for abortions to once again receive Title X grants. To limit federal funding of Planned Parenthood, the government can approve waivers for states to effectively block abortion providers from Medicaid funding, Israel said.
The Trump administration has allowed states to refuse Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood, reversing a Obama administration rule that said states could not do so simply on the basis of a recipient being an abortion provider.
But Israel said that in her view, Congress also needs to use its authority to strip federal funding from abortions in other areas through a broad ban on abortion funding-something it has not done yet. Federal funding of elective abortions through Medicaid reimbursements is prohibited by the Hyde Amendment, a policy enacted into law regularly since as an attachment to annual appropriations bills for the Department of Health and Human Services.
The amendment is not permanent law, and Democrats have signaled their intent to reverse the policy- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently promised to not include Hyde protections in spending bills next year. Some Congressmen have attempted to make Hyde protections more durable. As clinics grapple with the gag rule, several reproductive health care organizations have recently announced new resources.
Planned Parenthood and Power to Decide have put in place services to help women get birth control delivered to their door and find emergency contraception. Other interactive tools help women find clinics across the country that offer family planning and reproductive health care services.
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