(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Health and Human Services -- as directed by the new health care law -- is now accepting applications for a grant program that will help states provide support services to pregnant teens and women.

Such support services already exist in the form of privately funded pregnancy resource centers, which don’t expect to benefit from the new federal program, said a spokesman for one pregnancy resource center.

The Pregnancy Assistance Fund – established on page 2,162 of the new health care law – offers states a total of $25 million for each fiscal year through 2019...