October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, a reminder to all women to self-exam and, if you’re 40-45 or older, have a mammogram. For women of means or women with health insurance, wellness procedures like mammograms, pap smears or other cancer screenings are pretty simple. But for women in low-income communities, immigrants, those without health insurance, it can be a lot more challenging, at the very least, financially. In New York City, organizations like Public Health Solutions and Planned Parenthood fill in that gap, offering low or no-cost services that include family planning and reproductive health. They rely on city, state and federal funding to help them in their mission. So, these groups were faced with a difficult choice when the federal government put restrictions on one important type of funding: Title X. Title X helps pay for comprehensive and confidential family planning programs and preventive health services, not abortion services (because, Hyde Amendment). Among other things, clinics could no longer tell patients they had a right to an abortion.  Public Health Solutions and Planned Parenthood are among the women’s health services providers who turned down that funding rather than follow the “gag rule,” and keep vital information from their patients. The heads of Public Health Solutions and Planned Parenthood NYC join In Focus to talk about why they made that decision, to turn back much-needed funding, and how they hope to make up for that shortfall.