Title X

The Biden-Harris administration should immediately rescind the Trump administration’s domestic gag rule that prevents Title X family planning program grantees from providing ethical, high-quality, evidence-based care. Specifically, this rule change has prohibited providers from making abortion referrals for patients who desire them and requires referrals for prenatal care regardless of whether patients want to continue their pregnancies. Furthermore, the Title X grant-making processes should be restored to their 2016 form, in which funding decisions were made by an independent review panel of experts rather than HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) political appointees.