Sponsored by: Representatives Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Summary: This bill is a bipartisan initiative that seeks to find common ground on the issues surrounding women's health and abortion care. It includes a number of positive proposals intended to improve access to family planning and prenatal healthcare, as well as responsible sex education, which in turn would help create healthy and happy families and save public health dollars. This bill would: Increase federal funding for family planning programs Expand Medicaid coverage for family planning healthcare Provide grants for effective, responsible teen pregnancy prevention programs Fund national adoption campaigns Boost tax-credit assistance for adoption Increase coverage of and access to maternity and prenatal care Increase assistance for pregnant and parenting students Expand affordable child care to low-income families
This bill is a bipartisan initiative that seeks to find common ground on the issues surrounding women's health and abortion care. It includes a number of positive proposals intended to improve access to family planning and prenatal healthcare, as well as responsible sex education, which in turn would help create healthy and happy families and save public health dollars.
This bill would:
PPNT Position: Support - Increasing access to family planning services and providing comprehensive sex education will improve women's health, reduce rates of unintended pregnancy (which will in turn reduce the numbers of abortions), and lessen the spread of STIs. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies and STIs among industrialized nations and improving access to family planning services and education is the most effective way to reduce those rates. Also, increasing awareness of community resources like subsidized prenatal care and child care for women who choose to continue their pregnancies will help them receive the support they need to obtain educational and employment opportunities, early preventive care, and build happy, healthy families.
Support - Increasing access to family planning services and providing comprehensive sex education will improve women's health, reduce rates of unintended pregnancy (which will in turn reduce the numbers of abortions), and lessen the spread of STIs. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies and STIs among industrialized nations and improving access to family planning services and education is the most effective way to reduce those rates.
Also, increasing awareness of community resources like subsidized prenatal care and child care for women who choose to continue their pregnancies will help them receive the support they need to obtain educational and employment opportunities, early preventive care, and build happy, healthy families.
Latest Action: 9/14/2009 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
9/14/2009 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Recorded Votes: None.
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