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The Trump administration will withhold some federal funding from family planning that begins Tuesday, which could make it harder for Americans to access birth control, cancer screening and reproductive health care, the group said in a press release.
Nine family planning affiliates received notice late Monday about the Trump administration’s plan to withhold Title X funds starting April 1, according to the press release.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Health and Human Services responded to requests for comment on the Hill.
Title X is the only federal program in the country dedicated to providing affordable birth control and other sexual and reproductive health care services to low-income Americans, and has done so since the 1970s.
According to Health Advocacy Nonprofit KFF, the program provides nearly 2.8 million people to nearly 4,000 clinics in 2023.
That year, family planning branch health centers provided more than 5 million sexually transmitted infection services, more than 2 million birth control services and more than 400,000 cancer screening and prevention services, the organization said.
Reproductive rights advocates have been concerned that President Donald Trump will limit Title X funding as he did in his first semester. In 2019, the first Trump administration issued a rule that prohibits providers from getting Title X funds when referring to abortion or referring a patient to abortion.
Family Planning left the plan due to the rule and re-entered it in 2021 after the Biden administration overturned it.
“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda to deprive health care from the people of the country and no longer consider the damage they will cause.”
“We know what happens when healthcare providers are unable to use Title X funds: People across the country suffer, cancer is not detected, the chances of getting birth control are greatly reduced, and the national STD crisis worsens.”