The Biden administration is giving clinics that offer free and subsidized family planning services an additional $6 million, the White House announced in a memo Tuesday, as part of the wider response to the Supreme Court’s quashing. Roe v. Wade and more than a dozen states are going to ban abortion.
The new grants for the Research-to-Practice, Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Title X programs were announced ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting Tuesday with his Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access.
Providers in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Wisconsin will receive the additional funds, the Department of Health and Human Services told POLITICO. Of those states, only Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin have introduced new abortion restrictions since the fall of this year roe.