Unable to make all abortion illegal, anti-choice legislators have tried to make abortion services nearly impossible for women to obtain by imposing multiple restrictions on the right to choose. They have used the appropriations process to impose bans on the use of federal funds for abortion services in most situations. In other circumstances, they have imposed broad restrictions on how these funds may be used.
Amendments to appropriations bills restrict abortion coverage for: federal employees and their dependents; residents of the District of Columbia; Medicaid-eligible women; Medicare beneficiaries; military personnel and their dependents; Peace Corps volunteers; Native American women; and women in federal prisons. Attempts have even been made, through the appropriations process, to res
NARAL Pro-Choice America opposes discriminatory funding bans, which segregate abortion care — a vital component of women’s reproductive health — from other health-care services. The bans described above bear most heavily upon the poor. These bans undoubtedly force many women to bear children they are not prepared to raise or to sacrifice funds vitally needed for other necessities in order to pay for abortion care. The personal and social costs of these bans are heavy and completely avoidable.trict funds for women receiving medical care at Title X family-planning clinics.
