Statutory Prohibition on Use of Appropriated Funds in Programs Where Abortion is a Method of Family Planning; Standard of Compliance for Family Planning Services Projects, 29 January 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 13 299-13 301
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289184 Document Number: 265744
This document contains major provisions of the US Department of Health and Human Services' 1988 Statutory Prohibition on Use of Appropriated Funds in Programs Where Abortion is a Method of Family Planning (FP). These regulations dictate that FP services provided under Title X of the US Public Health Service Act may not provide counseling or referral for the use of abortion as a method of FP. Title X activities must be conducted in a manner which is physically and financially separate from prohibited activities as shown by such factors as the existence of separate accounting records, the degree of separation from facilities in which prohibited activities take place, and the existence of separate personnel. Activities that encourage, promote, or advocate abortion as a method of FP are prohibited. Such activities include lobbying for legislation that increases the availability of abortion as a means of FP, providing speakers who promote abortion as a method of FP, paying dues to a group that advocates abortion, using legal action to make abortion available as a method of FP, and developing or disseminating materials advocating abortion.