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title: "42 U.S.C. § 300a–6"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 300a–6 - Prohibition against funding programs using abortion as family planning method

## Text

None of the funds appropriated under this subchapter shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title X, § 1008, as added Pub. L. 91–572, § 6(c), Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1508.)