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YEAR: 1993

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Even as politics improve, challenges facing family planning providers mount.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

WASHINGTON MEMO. 1993 Jan 12;(1):3-4.

ABSTRACT

Insufficient funding for Title X family planning programs is beginning to have severe negative effects upon clinics

and clients. Family planning supporters hope President-elect Clinton will quickly repeal regulations and reinstitute

Title X rules in place before the gag rule was proposed by the Reagan administration. Reinstating 1980 legislation

will recodify what has remained standard practice in family planning clinics: women seeking information on options

to handle unintended pregnancy receive nondirective counseling and referrals from clinicians in federally funded

family planning clinics. A short-term reauthorization bill is expected to pass in the near future. As far as

contraceptive options are concerned, Norplant and Depo-Provera entered the market over the past 2 years. FDA

approval is expected for the Reality female condom. Offering extended protection over 5 years without sterilization,

Norplant is the most effective reversible contraceptive on the market. Depo-Provera is an injectable method offering

protection for a period of 3 months. Both methods contain only progestin-type hormones. Reality condoms, unlike

the latter 2 methods, protect against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. While one or all of these

methods may eventually be cost-prohibitive to many clients, the range of contraceptive options offered in family

planning clinics will nonetheless be expanded. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 19-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Even as politics improve, challenges facing family

planning providers mount.", is(are) . The source of this article is "WASHINGTON MEMO. 1993 Jan 12;(1):3-4.". This

article was published in 1993 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 19-06. All rights

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