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- Title
Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, Fiscal Year 1992.
- Authors
Daley, Daniel; Gold, Rachel Benson
- Abstract
This article discusses the public funding for contraceptive, sterilization and abortion services for fiscal year 1992. The federal government makes funds available for family planning services through four major sources, Title X of the Public Health Service Act, and Titles V, XIX and XX of the Social Security Act. The latter three sources are better known as the maternal and child health block grant, Medicaid and the social services block grant, respectively. Title X is the only federal program with the primary purpose of providing family planning services. The Department of Health and Human Services administers this categorical program, awarding family planning-specific grants through its 10 regional offices to a variety of public-sector and private-sector agencies. In West Virginia, a 1992 law would ban state-funded abortions unless two doctors certified that the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life, to prevent the irreversible loss of major bodily function, if there was clear evidence of severe fetal defect, if the fetus suffered from a terminal illness, or if the woman was a victim of incest or a rape reported to authorities. A temporary restraining order was issued to bar the implementation of the law, pending a ruling on the constitutionality of the provisions under the state constitution.
- Subjects
ORAL contraceptives; FEDERAL aid to health planning; STERILIZATION (Disinfection); CONTRACEPTIVE drugs; PROGESTATIONAL hormones; BIRTH control
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1993, Vol 25, Issue 6, p244
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136140