The new rule would roll back decades of progress around access to family planning services, and the 'collateral damage would take years to fix,” an advocate said.
Many clinics in this zone are “swamped” and struggle to meet the needs of the women living in the area, said Ceballos Félix, adding that women normally have to wait a year to get an appointment for a pap smear.“With the new restrictions, that wait will get longer,” she said, adding that she is concerned that more funding regulations can lead to clinics shutting down.
Federal funds can’t be used to directly pay for abortions since 1976 and passage of the Hyde Amendment, whichprovided to low-income people by the federal government. But the rule explicitly states that if a Title X funded center “encourages, promotes, advocates, supports, or assists with, abortion” the clinic would be considered one" — therefore ineligible for federal family planning funds.
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