A national reproductive health provider is mobilizing its supporters across the country to defend its Title X funds. Republican-controlled Congress unveiled a plan today to cut the entire $327 million program which clinics like Planned Parenthood rely on to provide its services. Title X offers free or low-cost reproductive and general healthcare to 1.7 million youth and adults.
Conservative lawmakers say taxpayer money is funneled into abortion services but reproductive health advocates say the funds go towards critical healthcare for low-come people across the country. This morning, Planned Parenthood held a phone banking session at its downtown Los Angeles headquarters to defend reproductive rights.
Pacifica’s Ernesto Arce files this report from Los Angeles.