family planning

noun

Definition of family planning

: planning intended to determine the number and spacing of one's children through birth control

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For anyone unfamiliar, this federal grant program funds clinics to help guarantee access to a variety of family planning and preventive health services for primarily low-income people or those who are uninsured. — SELF, "An Abortion Provider Explains What’s Really at Stake With Changes to Title X Funding," 21 June 2018 This kind of family planning may be more common in seasonal environments where food is plentiful only during certain periods. — Tim Vernimmen, Scientific American, "Babysitting Mammals Keep It in the Family," 20 June 2018 Two years later, family planning services were created for low-income adults. — John Myers, latimes.com, "Abortion may soon return to the national political debate, but it's largely settled in California," 8 July 2018 The line-item cuts amounted to $15,779,259 in funding for a variety of services throughout the state, including family planning. — Thomas Leavy, CBS News, "South Carolina governor vetoes $15.7 million from budget over funding for abortion providers," 8 July 2018 The Monitor is following three mothers whose lives are touched by Mr. Kaiser’s philanthropy, from quality daycares and early-reading classes to prison-diversion programs and family planning. — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, "For three families, Tulsa experiment offers chance to grasp American dream," 3 July 2018 In the Department of Health and Human Services, a prohibition on providing family planning and pregnancy prevention funds to entities that also perform abortions if there is another provider in the same county that does not perform abortions. — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan's crumbling roads get $300M extra in state budget," 12 June 2018 The budget approved by the Legislature included language that would have moved federal Title X money for family planning services to health clinics and county health departments that do not provide abortions. — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, "Planned Parenthood keeps Title X funding in new Michigan budget," 22 June 2018 Texas is a great example of what happens when family planning clinics are defunded. — SELF, "An Abortion Provider Explains What’s Really at Stake With Changes to Title X Funding," 21 June 2018

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