Collateral Damage in the War on Women

Akiba Solomon reports for Colorlines: “It’s hard to imagine a time when the Christian evangelical anti-abortion movement held such sway over the Republican party’s publicly stated agenda. Title X, a federal program that’s the leading source of family planning funds for low-income women, was established in 1970 under Richard Nixon and enjoyed wide bipartisan support despite chronic underfunding. Since 2010, however, attacks on Title X have been relentless and overt.”