Reading Room Document

Title X Family Planning Program Proposals

Section 1008 of Title X prohibits Title X programs from counseling and making referrals related to abortion as a method of family planning, except where such counseling and referrals are medically indicated. Such a limitation on the use o f government funds does not violate the Constitution. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to prohibit Title X programs from engaging in abortion advocacy and to require that organizations engaged in both Title X programs and abortion-related programs segregate the two. Such requirements do not violate the Constitution. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/23966/download.

July 30, 1987