Women’s health advocates blast proposed GOP spending bill that would kill family-planning funding

The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in a list of fully-covered preventive health-care services, House Republicans unveiled a proposed spending plan for 2012 that could leave many women without access to reproductive-health services, reproductive-rights More…

While Texas CPCs get more money, welfare programs they refer to are cut

As The American Independent has reported, Texas’ six-year-old Alternatives to Abortion program has consistently received increases in state funding, while organizations that provide reproductive-health and family-planning services for the uninsured has steadily decreased. This year, the state Legislature did more than cut family-planning funding, however. It also cut More…

As Texas cuts family-planning funding, more goes to crisis-pregnancy services

With presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s blessing, as of this month, Texas women’s health clinics and hospitals that provide medical and reproductive health services to low-income, uninsured women across the state have collectively lost approximately $74 million in state funding. Meanwhile, a state network of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)

Perry criticized by family-planning friends and foes on Texas funding, HPV policy

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has launched a campaign targeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been pegged by many media outlets as the current leader in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election.

Texas House votes to end state funding for hospitals, clinics that perform ‘abortion related services’

The Texas House passed Thursday a measure within a Medicaid overhaul bill that removes state funding to all hospitals and clinics that perform abortions or “abortion related services.”

The bill goes a step beyond a similar law in Indiana that was recently signed into law by Indiana Gov. Mitch More…

As more states try to strip Planned Parenthood of pregnancy-prevention funds, new studies suggest taxpayers will pay more

Though Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and his supporters were unsuccessful in stripping Planned Parenthood Federation of America of federal funds that go to pregnancy- and disease-prevention services, state legislatures have had more luck in trying to defund Planned Parenthood affiliates. States

As law cutting off funds is signed, Indiana agency says every county has same services as Planned Parenthood

While Planned Parenthood of Indiana lost its injunction Wednesday against a brand-new Indiana law — signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday — that strips abortion providers of Medicaid funding for reproductive and sexual health services, PP has claimed that about 9,300 Hoosiers will likely be deprived of access More…

Indiana legislators, litigators, analysts offer conflicting info on bill that defunds Planned Parenthood

Any day now, Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to sign a bill that strips state and federal family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN), but questions abound as to where the funds will flow and if the state is allowed to deny PPIN federal dollars.

Indiana likely to strip family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood, but where that money would go is unclear

Based on Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call last summer for a “truce on social issues,” for some, it came as a surprise that he wasted no time announcing his support for House Bill 1210, which the governor said Friday he will sign the minute it hits More…

Next state trying to defund Planned Parenthood: Indiana

After the failure to defund Planned Parenthood on a federal level last week, a new trend is emerging: states attempting to strip family planning funding from entities that provide abortion services.

So far two Midwest states have taken the lead: Minnesota and Indiana.