Thank you letter to Sen. Stabenow
National Campaign CEO Sarah Brown wrote a letter to Senator Stabenow commending her for her leadership on including an amendment to create a new Medicaid Family Planning State Plan Option in the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill. The amendment would allow states to expand eligibility for family planning services under Medicaid up to its level for pregnancy-related care. Download the letter
National Campaign Statement in Support of the Ryan DeLauro Bill
The National Campaign has long believed that reducing conflict and respecting a range of deeply held opinions is essential to making progress on the important issue of reducing both teen and unintended/unplanned pregnancy. The Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act, authored by Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Tim Ryan (D-OH), is an important example of this reasonable, inclusive perspective.
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Briefly - Policy Brief: Strengthening Medicaid Family Planning
Given the important role that Medicaid plays in providing access to family planning services, especially for low-income individuals, several steps should be taken to ensure that these services are widely available to the women, men, and teens who need them by reducing barriers to states who are trying to expand access and reducing barriers to individuals seeking to apply for these critical services.
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Briefly - Policy Brief: Strengthening America’s Family Planning Safety Net in the Context of Health Reform
Reducing the stubbornly high levels of unplanned pregnancy in the U.S. will require both personal responsibility on the part of individuals as well as responsible policies that give women and men the information and services they need to plan pregnancy. This brief explores such ideas in greater detail.
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Fast Facts: The Direct Medical Costs of Unplanned Pregnancy and Cost Effectiveness
of Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy
In addition to being associated with serious consequences for parents and their children, unplanned pregnancies also lead
to substantial direct medical costs due to the births, abortions,
and miscarriages that result from these pregnancies. This fact
sheet summarizes available information about these direct
medical costs.
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of Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy
Medicaid's Important Role in Pregnancy Prevention and Planning
October 2008
APHSA Policy & Practice
This journal article, written by National Campaign staffer Jennifer Drake, discusses Medicaid's important role in pregnancy prevention and planning.
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Politics and the Promise of Family Planning
A provision that would have given states the option to expand a Medicaid-funded program subsidizing family planning services for low-income women was recently removed from the economic stimulus plan. National Campaign Board President Isabel Sawhill and Adam Thomas, Research Director for the Center for Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, argue in a new op-ed that President Obama and Congress should return to the issue of the Medicaid family planning waiver as soon as possible.
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