Excerpt from the full fact sheet:

The latest in a long line of political attacks on the Title X (ten) family-planning program came in 2007, when anti-choice lawmakers Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced legislation (S.351/H.R.4133) to make any entity that provides abortion care with its own private funds ineligible for a Title X family-planning grant. (Such an "entity" could include a health clinic, a network of clinics, or a hospital that referred reproductive-health services to a clinic.) While the sponsors claim this legislation is necessary to prohibit publicly funded abortion care, the proposal's true purpose is obvious: to dismantle the Title X network, leaving thousands of low-income women without family-planning services. Current Title X law, regulations, and program policies already state that:

• No Title X dollars may pay for abortion care. Furthermore, the Department of Health and Human Services bars other abortion-related activities in a Title X project, such as providing transportation to an abortion provider, explaining and obtaining signed consent forms for abortion care, and related services.
• No Title X dollars may be used in any program that "promotes or encourages" abortion as a method of family planning.
• Title X funds must be kept strictly separate from any dollars used for abortion services, and grantees are required to keep their family-planning activities physically separate from prohibited abortion-related activities.

• If a Title X grantee or subgrantee is providing abortion services with other funds, as current law allows, it must stop doing so or be cut off from the Title X program altogether.
• Every Title X grantee and subgrantee that offers abortion care with other funds must identify itself to the federal government and Congress.

• Title X does not fund - and has never paid for or subsidized - abortion services.
• Longstanding requirements already mandate Title X grantees to strictly separate their family-planning projects from their non-Title X abortion activities.
• The breadth of the Vitter/Pence proposal could dismantle entire networks of well-respected health-care providers.
• If it becomes law, the Vitter/Pence proposal will create a "black list" of abortion providers.
• The Vitter/Pence proposal is a thinly veiled attack on birth control.
• State legislation like the Vitter/Pence proposal imposes severe restrictions on receipt of family-planning funds which results in the loss of funding for clinics and jeopardizes the availability of essential services.
• The Vitter/Pence proposal is part of an ongoing effort by anti-choice advocates to restrict birth control in every way possible.

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