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News Articles: family planning

Prossy Muyingo spent a dozen years as a health worker in central Uganda. She's been at the forefront of providing information and services for reproductive, maternal and child health. U.S. aid cuts eliminated her salary.

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  • Global Health

The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad

Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn't spent it — and the consequences are already being felt.

April 29, 2026
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A view of a warehouse of Kuehne+Nagel in Geel, Belgium, which houses U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million. The U.S. State Department has stated that the stocks would be sent to France to be destroyed.

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  • Global Health

The U.S. said it would burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear

Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

September 17, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Health

Because of Wisconsin's abortion ban, one mother gave up trying for another child

Kristen Petranek has a history of miscarriages – and she has diabetes, which makes pregnancy risky. She fears that if something goes wrong, her state's law may inhibit doctors from helping her.

December 12, 2022
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A package of Aviane birth control pills. The federal program known as Title X provides birth control, tests for sexually transmitted infections, and offers other reproductive health care for low-income patients.

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  • National

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ben Paviour
Thousands of demonstrators march outside the U.S. Supreme Court during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.

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  • National

Biden lifts abortion referral ban on family planning clinics

The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday its new regulation, which will go into effect Nov. 8, will restore clinics' ability to refer women seeking abortions to a provider.

October 05, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A Planned Parenthood of Utah facility in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration is moving to reverse a Trump-era family planning policy that critics describe as a domestic "gag rule" for reproductive healthcare providers.

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  • Politics

Biden Administration Moves To Undo Trump Abortion Rules For Title X

The Trump administration tried to "defund" Planned Parenthood and other groups through changes to the Title X family planning program. The Biden administration is proposing reversing those rules.

April 14, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
A 19-year-old woman talks with nurse Valeria Zafisoa at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group Marie Stopes International.

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  • Global Health

A Biden Promise About Overseas Abortion Funding Could Prove Difficult To Implement

It's part of an ongoing back-and-forth: Republican presidents ban U.S. funds for foreign aid groups that 'promote' abortion, Democratic presidents revoke the ban. This time things could be different.

December 03, 2020
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Nana (left) gets her birth control implant checked by Dr. Jean Rangomana during the Marie Stopes International mobile clinic in Besakoa, Madagascar, on April 9, 2018. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in Madagascar, and Trump administration policies led to shortages of birth control there, health workers say.

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  • Global Health

Under Trump, New Anti-Abortion Rules Shook Fragile Health Systems Around the World

President-elect Joe Biden inherits a global health landscape changed by the Trump administration more than under any Republican president since Ronald Reagan.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah Varney
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