See How Title X Impacts Your State

If you live in the States, that is.

Guttmacher has created a very fabulous tool that allows you to get a good picture on just how much Title X does in your state (or any state, for that matter). Check it out:
State Facts About Title X and Family Planning.

From Oregon, for example:

Title X–Supported Services in Oregon

•Title X–supported centers provided contraceptive care to 70,300 women in Oregon in 2008.(3)

•These centers served 30% of women in the state in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies, compared with 27% served by such centers nationally.(3)

•Of the total contraceptive clients served by these centers, 72% had incomes at or below the federal poverty level, compared with 70% nationally.(8)

•In 2006, 81 family planning centers in Oregon received support from Title X.(9,10) They included:

Health department clinics: 74
Community health centers: 3
Planned Parenthood clinics: 4
Hospital outpatient clinics: 0
Other independent clinics: 0

•These centers provided contraceptive care to the following numbers of clients:(9)

Health department clinics: 46,790
Community health centers: 1,420
Planned Parenthood clinics: 25,140
Hospital outpatient clinics: 0
Other independent clinics: 0

Impact of Services Provided by Title X–Supported Centers in Oregon

•In 2008, contraceptive services provided at Title X–supported centers in Oregon helped women avoid 14,600 unintended pregnancies, which would have resulted in 6,500 births and 6,100 abortions.(3)

•In the absence of these services, the level of abortion in Oregon would be 51% higher.(6,9)

•In 2006, contraceptive services provided at Title X–supported centers in Oregon helped women younger than age 20 avoid 3,819 unintended pregnancies.(11)

•In the absence of these services, the level of teen pregnancy in Oregon would be 55% higher.(7,11)

•By helping women avoid unintended pregnancies and the births that would follow, the services provided at Title X–supported centers in Oregon saved $18,199,000 in public funds in 2008.(12)

Four, four, Planned Parenthood clinics saw more than half as many clients as seventy-four health department clinics.

I know I keep saying this: Please write your congresspeople. Tell them not to support HR 217: Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.


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