The Trump administration’s Office of Population Affairs under the Department of Health and Human Services is shifting the focus of its Title X grants. Historically, these grants focused on funding birth control and contributed to an “overreliance on pharmaceutical and surgical treatments.”
But now the department “expect[s] applicants to demonstrate how their Title X projects will integrate noninvasive, evidence-based practices that promote health literacy, fertility awareness, and reproductive health without unnecessary medicalization or symptom suppression.” In other words, in a time of falling birth rates, the administration is working to promote fertility awareness, natural contraception, and pregnancy.
