Compare that $19 billion with how much we spent on prevention programs in 1987 - a mere $136 million for family-planning services, for example.

Obstetric and family-planning services, parks and gang-prevention programs are all heavily used by Hispanic residents.

It also would mandate "full access" to family-planning services, including birth control and abortion.

Another is to make family-planning services available to all couples and prenatal care available to all women.

Upstate, less than 40 percent of adolescents 13 to 19 years old at risk of unintended pregnancy are receiving family-planning services.

Denying family-planning services to any family, let alone families in developing countries, is to deny them social and economic equality and basic dignity.

The annual budget for family-planning services usually includes $340,000 of Federal Title X money.

She said, however, that abstinence is no longer an issue in family-planning services because the women are already sexually active and sometimes pregnant when they enter the program.

First, he notes that environmentalists and population activists, long at the forefront of providing family-planning services, can appropriately claim much credit for the brighter outlook.

The Federal Medicaid law says states must cover "family-planning services and supplies," widely understood to include birth control pills and other contraceptives.