Instead, we can make child welfare, prenatal and other human services more accessible and more efficient.

Better coordination and more extensive provision of prenatal services could even reduce the state's annual expenditures on uninsured pregnant women.

Consider the programs providing prenatal services to low-income women.

Particularly good prenatal services and care may account also for the low incidence of prematurity among children of women working in the mining industry.

Ms. Kabir told the story of one 18-year-old woman who approached them for prenatal services.

They operate programs at dozens of sites, providing birth-control and prenatal services, mostly to poor women.

Our regulation would make it faster and easier for states to use these funds to expand prenatal services.

The existing program will continue, but prenatal medical services will be provided by the clinic.

We also must ensure that prenatal services in certain neighborhoods are available and more sensitive to the needs of the community.

Several programs, including a block grant for maternal and child health and Medicaid, provide prenatal services to low-income women.