Watchdog: AmeriCorps members helped with abortion services

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Washington Examiner:

A major medical association violated federal law by allowing members of the federal community service organization AmeriCorps to provide emotional support to women getting abortions in three New York clinics, a federal watchdog charged Tuesday.

 

The National Association of Community Health Centers improperly allowed AmeriCorps volunteers to support women getting an abortion at those clinics, the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Inspector General reported Tuesday.

 

The IG said AmeriCorps gave the association $30 million over the last five years, but added that the organization is prohibited under federal law from providing money for abortion services, according to the IG report.

 

Specifically, the IG said the federal law authorizing AmeriCorps "expressly prohibits the use of AmeriCorps resources to 'provide[e] abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services.'"