Fight for Title X.
Fight for Title X.
Occurrences
Women’s Rights & Opportunity
Evidence
Fight for Title X: More than four million Americans rely on Title X's affordable family planning services for contraception education and birth control. Title X also provides for healthcare services including breast and pelvic exams, cervical and breast cancer screenings, and STI/HIV screening and treatment services.
For carrying out the program under title X of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects, $286,479,000.
Roll Call 689 | Bill Number: H. R. 1865; Status: Passed; Trahan Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.
The effect of this 2021 final rule is to revoke the requirements of the 2019 regulations, including removing restrictions on nondirective options counseling and referrals for abortion services and eliminating requirements for strict physical and financial separation between abortion-related activities and Title X project activities.
For carrying out the program under title X of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects, $286,479,000.
Roll Call 66 | Bill Number: H. R. 2471; Status: Passed; Trahan Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.
Assessments
Trahan promised generally to fight for Title X, not to enact a specific statutory change. During her first House term, Congress preserved Title X funding in the fiscal 2020 appropriations law, and Trahan voted for the package. That is direct supportive action in federal office and satisfies meaningful effort, but the evidence does not show she personally sponsored or materially advanced a distinct Title X expansion or protection beyond voting for omnibus appropriations. Later restoration of Title X rules was chiefly an executive-branch action, so it supports only partial candidate credit.