The Politics of Blame: Family Planning, Abortion and the Poor articles from January 1 1995

The Politics of Blame: Family Planning, Abortion and the Poor archives from January 1 1995

Family planning, abortion and welfare reform.(welfare reform needs family planning provisions)
January 1, 1995... Adolescent pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbearing and a growing number of single-parent families are among the serious social problems currently facing this country. These phenomena are not exclusive to the poor, but their negative consequences...

Women and poverty.
January 1, 1995... Women bear the brunt of poverty in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of adults who are poor are women, and more than half of poor families are headed by a single woman. (14) For many of these women, life is a constant and often lonely...

Poor and low-income women: A diverse group.
January 1, 1995... Nine million women of childbearing age are poor, and more than 10 million are low-income. (38) These women have surprisingly diverse backgrounds: Many have not finished high school, but some are college graduates; some are married, while others...

Efforts to avoid an unplanned pregnancy.(poor women's access to contraceptives and family planning service)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1995... Two-thirds of reproductive-age women-- some 39 million women, including almost 13 million who are poor or low-income--are at risk of an unintended pregnancy; these women are sexually active and could become pregnant if they used no...

Making the decision to have an abortion.(reasons poor women choose abortion)
January 1, 1995... Any woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy must make the often difficult choice between having an abortion or giving birth to a child she had not planned to have and maybe unprepared financially or emotionally to raise. Roughly equal...

Economic realities of obtaining an abortion.
January 1, 1995... Abortion is a relatively inexpensive procedure when it is performed early in pregnancy in a specialized clinic on an outpatient basis, as most procedures are. For poor and low-income women, however, the cost of an abortion can be prohibitive,...

Gaps in financial assistance.(Medicaid coverage for the poor does not pay for abortion)
January 1, 1995... Most women rely on insurance to help them pay for needed medical care. Many poor and low-income women, however, either have no health insurance or have coverage that specifically excludes abortion services. In 1991, for example, almost half of...

Financial implications of restoring medicaid coverage.
January 1, 1995... Eliminating the Hyde Amendment and restoring Medicaid coverage for abortions would allow poor women to decide freely whether to terminate an unplanned pregnancy or to bear a child. It would also save taxpayers millions of dollars annually in...

Time for change.(Medicaid should fund prenatal care services and abortion)
January 1, 1995... As they should, our public policies encourage the provision of medical care to poor pregnant women by subsidizing maternity care services under Medicaid. But when it comes to abortion, the reverse is true: Subsidized care is denied to medically...

Living on welfare in one state: Minnesota.(welfare income versus basic family expenses)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... Anyone who has not been poor or on the edge of poverty probably finds it difficult, even impossible, to imagine trying to raise a family on $9,216 a year, or $768 a month, in cash and food stamps, but that is what an AFDC recipient with two...