Title X Gag Rule Has Led to Increased Funding for Anti-Choice Clinics

By
Erin Heger,
Rewire.News

Published
January 29, 2020

Newly released federal grant applications for the Obria Group, a California-based anti-choice organization operating clinics nationally, show an inefficient distribution of Title X funds, including high patient costs and a six-figure salary for its medical director.

The Obria Group, which operates 48 anti-choice clinics, or crisis pregnancy centers was awarded up to $5.1 million over three years in Title X funds (though not every clinic receives funds) from the Trump administration last March to provide comprehensive family planning services in three California counties. According to a report from the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a nonprofit watchdog group, Obria’s 2019 Title X application shows per-patient costs ranging from $292 to $970.

In contrast, Essential Access Health, another Title X recipient in California, has drastically lower per-patient costs — roughly $20 — which allows them to serve a much greater number of patients for the same amount of federal dollars, CfA Counsel Alice Huling told Rewire.News.

https://truthout.org/articles/title-x-gag-rule-has-led-to-increased-funding-for-anti-choice-clinics/