Condition Medicaid family-planning funds on mandatory state abortion reporting
Mandate urges HHS to use every tool including cutting funds so every state reports detailed abortion statistics, and cites legislation tying Medicaid family-planning payments to reporting.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 14 (HHS) — CDC Data Collection: use every available tool, including cutting funds, to ensure every state reports abortions by gestational age, reason, mother’s residence, method, complications, born-alive cases; Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act would condition Medicaid family-planning payments on reporting.
Undo plan
1) Rescind funding-condition schemes that coerce states into abortion-surveillance regimes beyond voluntary public-health reporting.
2) Restore voluntary CDC abortion surveillance with standardized, privacy-protected definitions if states opt in.
3) Separate miscarriage/ectopic care coding from induced abortion in any federal datasets without punitive funding cuts.
4) Codify that Medicaid family-planning eligibility cannot be conditioned on abortion-reporting compliance absent clear statute.
5) Verify: CMS/CDC notice withdrawing coercive conditions; state participation rates under voluntary model.