2 decades, since 2001. At least 4 States, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, and Ohio, currently use TANF funds to support such programs, together expending millions of dollars each year. (6) On October 2, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a proposed rule, Strengthening Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) as a Safety Net and Work Program, (88 Fed. Reg. 67697) targeting pregnancy centers and alternatives to abortion programs and threatening to strip them of millions of dollars of funding, depriving pregnant women in need of compassionate assistance for themselves and their unborn babies. (7) Contrary to the assertions of the Biden Administration, alternatives to abortion programs, and the pregnancy centers they support, fulfill the purpose of TANF specified in section 401(a) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 601(a) ) to— (A) provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives