CONTRACEPTIVES

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of HHS: prohibit implementation or enforcement of proposed rule limiting patients' access to basic reproductive health care services and information (see S. 20), S10742 [20NO] (see H.R. 7310), H10867 [9DE]

Insurance: require equitable coverage of drugs, devices, and services under health insurance plans (see S. 3068), S4793 [22MY]

Schools: prohibit Federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception (see H.R. 6453), H6405 [10JY]

Social Security: provide grants for school-based mentoring programs of at-risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy and provide student loan forgiveness for mentors participating in such programs (see H.R. 5810), H2355 [15AP]

Veterans: health care funding through reductions in LSC and Title X family planning programs funding (see H.R. 6712), H7785 [31JY]

Women: support legislation promoting improved health care and access to health care (see S. Res. 638), S7905 [31JY]

Remarks in House

Children and youth: make grants to carry out activities to prevent teen pregnancy in racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities (H.R. 468), E2119 [28SE]

Diseases: allow flexibility in the use of HIV prevention funds in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) by removing abstinence-until-marriage programs funding requirement, H876 [13FE], H1912, H1913, H1920 [2AP]

Federal aid programs: prohibit Federal family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions (H.R. 4133), H6325 [9JY]

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.: tribute to Sex Ed Week of Action campaign, E2088 [27SE], E2221 [3OC]

Schools: prohibit Federal education funding for abstinence only education, H9872 [25SE]

U.N.: U.S. contribution to U.N. Population Fund relative to family planning activities in the People's Republic of China, E1451 [14JY]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of HHS: prohibit implementation or enforcement of proposed rule limiting patients' access to basic reproductive health care services and information (S. 20), S10745 [20NO]

Insurance: require equitable coverage of drugs, devices, and services under health insurance plans (S. 3068), S4804 [22MY]

Women: support legislation promoting improved health care and access to health care (S. Res. 638), S7975 [31JY]

Texts of

S. Res. 638, support legislation promoting improved health care and access to health care for women, S7975 [31JY]