1998

• By the close of the 105 legislative session, Congress passed legislation implementing three major goals of The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), formerly a Division of Planned Parenthood:

 1)     Nationwide subsidized family planning clinics are now funded by State Childrens Health Insurance Plan. Pennsylvania is the only state to not fund family planning procedures in S-CHIP. After initially including all family planning services in CHIP, Texas removed them and Michigan removed abortion and sterilization, but not contraception.

2)     Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) forced Americans to pay for contraceptives for federal employees.

3)     AGI used the bypass mechanism, set up by Care Choices, to show how religious organizations have found ways to opt out and still cooperate with the family planners.    According to the December 1998 issue of The Allen Guttmacher Report On Public Policy "OPM directed federal agencies to inform their employees that if an individual provider within a plan declines to provide contraception, they should contact the plan, which "will arrange for you to have access to a provider who will…" This report leads one to believe that a provider is required by law to arrange for these procedures.  A provider is only required by law to make arrangement for these services if they agreed to do so in their health plan.

 1999 - 2000

• Coverage of contraceptive prescriptions and devices in all state-regulated health insurance plans were mandated into law in 13 states.
• On October 2, Associated Press: "NEW YORK (AP) Health insurers have generally agreed to cover the newly approved RU-486 abortion pill, according to a survey of managed care plans. The health insurers, including heavyweights Aetna,  United HealthCare and Cigna will cover the abortion pill as a standard benefit.  Other insurers have or will soon follow.
• CLAIMSPRO, a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM, i.e., a prescription drug card   Vendor--owned by CVS ((an American drug store/pharmacy chain listed as having ties with the pro-abortion UNICEF), a major player in the prescription drug industry on the  distribution side), responded to a December 13, 2000, Decision  from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). It stated employee health plans, which cover prescription drugs, must likewise cover contraceptives.  CLAIMSPRO provided a form at the bottom of the letter to request addition of contraceptives to the clients' insurance plans, if not already covered. 

    2001

• Vice President of Sales for BCBS of Michigan tells agents that they were required by HIPAA regulations to provide medical procedures to children without parental consent starting Feb 26.
• HIPAA regulations to be implemented on February 26 required that health care providers and insurance companies protect medical privacy to children at any age. This means that physicians, health care providers and insurance companies can not tell parents about medical procedures without children's consent.
• The City of San Francisco Set To Add Sex Change Benefits. City would be first to include option. "This is very much a civil rights issue," said Supervisor Mark Leno.
•  Planned Parenthood legislation for Direct Access to abortion for all reproductive procedures has passed Kansas Senate 39-1.  Senate Bill 19 must be killed or another serious threat to life and the family will be imposed on the citizens of Kansas.  Similar legislation is being introduced in Congress and in most states.