Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lose Funding Source with the Rejection of Title V Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs in 25 States
According to the Administration of Children and Families (ACF), the division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage funding, 25 states are no longer participating in this program. Moreover, ACF acknowledges that two more states will be out at the end of Fiscal Year 2008. With states rejecting Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage funding, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are losing a significant funding source.
A July 2006 report released by Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) titled False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers found that CPCs had received over $30 million in federal funding under the Bush administration between 2001 and 2005.[ii] Virtually all of that funding has been funneled through federal abstinence-only-until-marriage funding streams, including the Title V and Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE).[iii]
In Fiscal Year 2007, 34 CPCs in 18 states received Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage funding totaling nearly $3 million. In addition, 22 CPCs across the country also received CBAE funding, which comes directly from ACF, totaling almost 12 million dollars in that same year. A number of CPCs, like New Hope Center, Inc. in Kentucky, received both Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage and CBAE funding in Fiscal Year 2007.
[i] False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers (United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform—Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, 17 July 2006).
[ii] Ibid.
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