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The United States Supreme Court vacated the injunction in August 1977, leading abortions financed by federal Medicaid to drop from about 300,000 per year to a few thousand. [11] [12] [13] However, some U.S. states provide their own public funding for abortion for Medicaid-eligible women. [14]
A November 13–15 CNN–Opinion Research Corporation poll found that 60% of the respondents oppose public funding of abortion. When asked whether private and employer-sponsored insurance plans should cover any costs of abortion or whether women should have to pay the entire cost themselves, a 51–45% majority said women should have to pay the ...
At least 21 states use public funds to support anti-abortion clinics, which have grown into a billion-dollar industry
In 2018, Title X funding was used to cover more than 600,000 tests for cervical cancer, more than 800,000 tests for breast cancer, and almost 5 million tests for STDs. [11] The services provided at publicly funded clinics saved the federal and state governments an estimated $5.1 billion in 2008 in short term medical costs. [18]
Initially, the state agreed as a compromise to provide a hotline number to patients who requested information on abortion, but it later refused to do so. The state's funding for 2023, worth $4.5 ...
For nearly 30 years, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have approved millions of taxpayer dollars for an anti-abortion program. Now the state's new governor plans to end the ...
As of May 2018, women could obtain public funding for abortions in three specific cases: if her life was in danger, when the pregnancy is a result of rape, or if the pregnancy is a result of incest. [11] As of May 2019, state Medicaid rules prohibited the use of state Medicaid funding for abortion services except in those three formentioned ...
The Iowa Board of Medicine has approved guidelines for Iowa's restrictive abortion law that bans the procedure when cardiac activity is detected. Iowa medical board has finalized rules for state's ...