Title X at 25: Balancing National Family Planning Needs with State Flexibility articles

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Title X: A Delicate Balance.(reproductive health and family planning service funding)(Public Health Service Act)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... In the summer of 1995, Rep. Bob Livingston (R.-La.) proposed to eliminate Title X of the Public Health Service Act, which supports family planning and closely related reproductive health services for more than four million American women. (1)...

The Role of Title X in Family Planning Service Provision.(Public Health Service Act)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... The enactment of Title X in 1970 reflected the widespread bipartisan support for voluntary family planning programs that had developed during the preceding decade. This support, in turn, was a response to growing evidence that rates of unwanted...

Administering Title X: The States' Role.(Public Health Service Act)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Although Title X is a categorical program whose funds must be spent on the provision of family planning services, it is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the diverse ways in which states administer health care services. At the national...

Lessons Learned from the 1981 Block-Grant Experience.(Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981)
January 1, 1996... The centerpiece of the Reagan administration's legislative agenda, the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA), consolidated 57 formerly categorical grant programs into nine new or revised block grants, and drastically reduced funding for...

The Impact of Restructuring Title X.(Public Health Service Act)
January 1, 1996... For 25 years, Title X has provided high-quality family planning services to low-income women and adolescents. The 1995 rejection by the House of Representatives of a measure to funnel family planning money through other federal programs...