In 1970, abortion was legal in the U.S. only, for the most part, when it was necessary to save a woman’s life. Reform was under way at the state level, but Roe v. Wade was still three years in the future. And legal access wasn’t the only impediment for women who wished to terminate...

Recent decades have seen both a growing need for publicly subsidized family planning services and repeated threats to federal funding for such care, so an assessment of whether the Title X program provides expanded access to sexual and reproductive health services is useful. In an analysis of...

What you may think: Given the health insurance landscape created by the Affordable Care Act, clients at Title X–supported sites have coverage for services, and costs to clinics are therefore reduced.

What the research shows: Two studies that have run...

In the final month of our celebration of the first half century of Perspectives, we focus on legal, policy and funding issues. These topics were central to the journal’s mission from the beginning—our inaugural issue described proposals for a national family planning agency and reviewed...