Prohibition against funding programs using abortion as family planning method

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Title 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE > CHAPTER 6A—PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE > SUBCHAPTER VIII—POPULATION RESEARCH AND VOLUNTARY FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS

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None of the funds appropriated under this subchapter shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.

( July 1, 1944, ch. 373 , title X, § 1008, as added Pub. L. 91–572, § 6(c) , Dec. 24, 1970 , 84 Stat. 1508 .)

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