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The Title X Family Planning Program (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 22, 2005
Report Number 97-1048
Authors Sharon Kearney Coleman, Knowledge Services Group
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The federal government provides grants for voluntary family planning servicesthrough the family planning program, Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Theprogram, enacted in 1970, is the only federal program devoted solely to family planningand related preventive health services. Although the authorization for Title X endedwith FY1985, funding for the program has been provided through bills that provideappropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, andEducation, and Related Agencies. The Title X program received funding of $285.9million for FY2005 and the Administration has requested the same amount for FY2006.