The latest in a long line of political attacks on the Title X 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.

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