FPA’s legislative agenda seeks funding increases for family planning clinics and funding is increased by 33% in the State Budget, bringing the new total to $4.18 million.

Efforts to allow young people to consent to their own prenatal care and to make unintended pregnancy a state health priority continue in full force.

A law is passed allowing minors to consent to their own prenatal care. FPA succeeds in efforts to prevent severe cuts to the family planning component of the Maternal & Child Health Block Grant (Title V).

FPA and family planning clinics join together to launch a major initiative: “Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: Making New York First in Family Planning.”