Iowa lawmakers are meeting today in an effort to reconcile the 2008
health and human services appropriations bill, a necessary and
traditional piece of legislation considered controversial this year
due to the implementation of a new fund that would address family
planning. The fund, allocated up to $750,000 before House lawmakers
stripped it from the bill and re-allocated the funds to county mental
health services on Tuesday, is a focused effort of Planned Parenthood
of Greater Iowa, through the Healthy Families project. The monies
would be used to aid low-income and under-served women in Iowa in
obtaining contraceptives and accessing family planning programs that
seek to prevent unwanted pregnancy.

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