Until now, minors could receive family planning services without the consent of their parents.
Title X is the nation's major program designed to reduce unwanted pregnancy.
It provides contraceptive and other reproductive health services to low-income women, although it cannot fund abortions. This is the first time such an amendment has been successfully voted into the Title X appropriations bill. The House may vote on the bill, including the amendment, in the next few weeks. Although public funds for family planning also come from other programs, Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to family planning. In 1992, it supported 76 percent of all family planning agencies, providing more than 20 percent of the budgets for over half of them.