Campaign Promises

Departments -> Health & Human Services -> Pregnancy
Item	Health & Human Services
Pregnancy		Grade
HE-48	The Promise: "...will work to reduce unintended pregnancy by guaranteeing equity in contraceptive coverage, providing sex education and offering rape victims accurate information about emergency contraception." When/Where: Obama and Biden's Plan for America: "Blueprint for Change," dated 10/09/08. Source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/550007-barack-obama-2008-blueprint-for-change.html Status:The "Safe Motherhood/Infant Health" line item in the FY2010 appropriation for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) includes $15.8M to provide "medically accurate and age appropriate" information on contraception to youth. This was an increase of $5M over FY2009 funding. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 authorized an additional $10M for grants "to implement innovative youth pregnancy prevention strategies and target services to high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally under-represented youth populations...". In 10/10, the Obama Administration announced a $110M campaign to support a range of unintended pregancy prevention initiatives to include sex education and the benefits of contraception, as well as focusing on encouraging teens to delay sex. This promise was fulfilled.	1.00