Sec. 15. Pregnancy resource centers

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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall use amounts available under subsection

(b)to provide grants and other assistance to pregnancy resource centers to assist such centers in carrying out activities to support women's pregnancy-related health. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pregnancy resource center shall be eligible for funding under title X of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300 et seq. ). Notwithstanding section 59.2 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, pregnancy resource centers shall not be required to provide, refer, or counsel in favor of contraception in order to eligible for funding under such title X. In making funding available under such title X, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall give priority to the funding of pregnancy resource centers. In this section: The term community referrals means linking a woman to additional care within the community. Such linkage may include prenatal care, STI testing or treatment, maternity homes and housing, professional counseling, licensed adoption agencies, financial aid, addition recovery help, job and skills training, and legal help. The term material assistance means the provision of goods and resources to pregnant or parenting women or parenting couples, including diapers and wipes, car seats, baby furniture, strollers, baby bedding, baby clothing, baby formula, maternity clothing, or financial assistance. The term pregnancy resource center means a life-affirming organization that offers a range of services to assist pregnant women, which may include options such as counseling, obstetrical ultrasound, sexual transmitted infection

(STI)tests and testing, pregnancy tests and testing, sexual risk avoidance

(SRA)education, parenting education, material assistance, and community referrals. Such organizations may also be known as pregnancy help centers, pregnancy resource centers, pregnancy care centers, pregnancy medical clinics, or simply pregnancy centers. Such term does not include entities that perform, prescribe, refer for or encourage abortion or entities that affiliate with any entity that performs, prescribes, refers for, or encourages abortion.