Trump admin’s fertility plan prioritizes ideology over science

The new proposed guidance changes its focus from preventing pregnancies to promoting “natural family planning methods” and suggests that its main goal is to “strengthen family formation and assist clients in achieving healthy pregnancies.” In 2027, the guidance explains, Title X will fund “voluntary family planning projects” that offer a broad range of “acceptable and effective family planning method” and services for adolescents and infertility. It emphasizes that clinics funded through these grants could promote “body literacy,” as in education on menstrual cycles, hormonal health, male and female fertility, which could help address the “nation’s growing infertility crisis.”

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