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Trump HHS Rewrites Title X, Favoring Crisis Centers Over Contraception

7/11/2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s HHS Office of Population Affairs issued a revised Title X notice on July 10, 2026 that frames the low-income birth-control program as a far-right pronatalist tool.
The notice dropped a pre-merits ideological audit but still lets political appointees influence provider selection.
Reproductive-health groups have sued over the provider-selection provisions.
Critics say the shift sidelines contraception, favors crisis pregnancy centers, and furthers a pronatalist agenda linked to eugenic and white-nationalist rhetoric.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump’s HHS Office of Population Affairs issued a revised Title X notice on July 10, 2026 that frames the low-income birth-control program as a far-right pronatalist tool.
The notice dropped a pre-merits ideological audit but still lets political appointees influence provider selection.
Reproductive-health groups have sued over the provider-selection provisions.
Critics say the shift sidelines contraception, favors crisis pregnancy centers, and furthers a pronatalist agenda linked to eugenic and white-nationalist rhetoric.