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This issue brief presents data from the most recent tracking poll asking if people have ever visited a Planned Parenthood clinic for health care services and looks at the funding cuts Planned Parenthood is currently facing including Medicaid, Title X, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention funds.
This brief looks at recent policy proposals including the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Law, the Medina v. Planned Parenthood decision, and the withholding of Title X funds and how they will impact the reproductive health safety net at the same time that there is an increase in the uninsured.
This Policy Watch provides an update on the status of PEPFAR reauthorization, which expired on March 25, 2025, allowing certain provisions to lapse.
This issue brief examines what has happened to the Title X network under the Biden Administration regulations, including the number of clinics that have returned to the network, new funding, and how state policies that prohibit pregnancy options counseling that includes abortion and referrals may impact grantees' participation in the Title X program.
This fact sheet summarizes the major statutory requirements and policies pertaining to U.S. global family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) efforts over time and identifies those currently in effect.
This literature review identifies studies examining the impact of the Mexico City Policy, from 2001 to the present, with particular focus on capturing recent studies assessing the policy under the Trump administration.
PEPFAR, the U.S. global HIV/AIDS program, is - for the first time in its two-decade history - facing significant challenges that could impede its ability to fulfill its mission. This policy brief provides an overview of recent events and ongoing challenges facing the program.
This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address family planning in low- and middle-income countries in 2022, which totaled US$1.35 billion and was a decline of 9% (US$129 million) compared to the 2021 amount (US$1.48 billion). While the decline was due to decreases in funding by most donor governments, a significant share can be attributed to exchange rate fluctuations resulting from the rise in value of the U.S. dollar against most currencies during 2022.
About 1 in 8 voters (12%) now say that abortion is the most important issue for their vote in the 2024 elections, highlighting how the issue could motivate groups of voters who largely say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.
This brief presents findings from the 2023 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey on coverage of abortion services in large employer-sponsored health plans, changes employers made to abortion coverage since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling, and employers’ provision of financial assistance for travel out of state to obtain an abortion.
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