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  • Title: More family planning and abortion services needed.
    Author: Gold R.
    Journal: Plan Parent Rev; 1984; 3(4):5. PubMed ID: 12267090.
    Abstract:
    Title X of the US Public Health Service Act seeks to make family planning services available to low-income women and women under 20 years of age at risk of unintended pregnancy. In 1980, over 4.6 million US women received family planning services from organized providers. This included about 49% (3.8 million) of the low-income women and 14% (456,000) of the marginal-income women at risk. Overall, 90% of the women served in 1980 had either low or marginal incomes. However, cutbacks in Title X funding have threatened the ability of these programs to reach those at risk, particularly in terms of abortion services. Although 1.55 million US women obtained legal abortions are 1980, 30% of those who wanted abortions were unable to obtain them. This lack of access was particularly acute among women in nonmetropolitan areas, the poor, and the young. Only 5% of all abortions in 1980 were performed in nonmetropolitan counties, although those areas contain 25% of women of childbearing age. The Hyde amendment, which restricts the use of federal funds to provide abortions for Medicaid recipients, has drastically curtailed poor women's ability to obtain safe, legal abortions. Finally, state laws requiring that teenagers have parental consent before having an abortion or requiring parental notification have discouraged many young women from terminating unwanted pregnancies.
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