Guttmacher Institute Media Update Examines Impact Of U.S. Family Planning Assistance Abroad
The Guttmacher Institute on Friday released a media update examining the impact of U.S. international family planning assistance. The update highlights the benefits supported by $610 million "appropriated for U.S. assistance for family planning and reproductive health programs for FY 2012" and states, "These gains would be seriously jeopardized if this already modest funding for the program were to be cut again," noting that "reductions of different magnitudes would have proportional effects" (4/27).
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