---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300a–6"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300a–6"
heading: "Prohibition against funding programs using abortion as family planning method"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300a-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs"
---

# §300a–6. Prohibition against funding programs using abortion as family planning method


None of the funds appropriated under this subchapter shall be used in [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) where abortion is a method of family planning.


## Source credit

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