Axios - A Trump administration freeze on Title X family planning funds will limit or entirely cut off program support for reproductive health services in at least eight states, potentially affecting as many as 1.25 million people, per the Guttmacher Institute. Health providers said the cutoff would create unnecessary barriers to contraception and other reproductive care. The administration said the purpose was to ensure program recipients are in compliance with the law and program guidelines.
Planned Parenthood announced Monday that nine of its affiliates had received notices from the Trump administration about plans to withhold their Title X funds starting Tuesday. "We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation's STI crisis worsens," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a press release.
Guttmacher, a research organization that supports abortion rights, said the freeze will fall hardest on low-income women, noting that in 2023, 83% of patients served by Title X–funded clinics had family incomes at or below 250% of the federal poverty level.
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