Planned Parenthood to close Longview clinic (WA)

King5.com ^ | 2-19-2007 | AP

[MooseMan]

01:10 PM PST on Monday, February 19, 2007

Associated Press

LONGVIEW, Wash. - Planned Parenthood is closing its Longview clinic next month because of federal Medicaid cuts.

The closure of the small clinic, which is open each Thursday, comes as low-income patients are having difficulty finding reproductive care and Cowlitz County has growing rates of sexually transmitted diseases, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Jennifer Allen said.

The clinic provides STD testing and treatment, condoms, menopause treatment and gynecological exams. It has operated in the county Health Department's Longview headquarters for the past three years.

Allen said Friday that the closure was necessary after federal officials cut family planning services for 7,800 people in the "Take Charge" program. The clinic's last day will be March 8.

"We think it's awful," Allen told The Daily News of Longview. "This is going to have a significant negative impact on folks in Cowlitz County. The folks who have been coming to us for services are not necessarily going to have another place to turn."

The clinic, which is staffed by one nurse practitioner and two office aides, is the first Planned Parenthood facility in Washington to close because of the cuts, Allen said. The organization also shut down a youth education program in Everett, she said, and more clinics may follow.

Lesley Bombardier, interim director of the county's health department, said patients will have to turn to a clinic operated by the county as well as the nonprofit Family Health Center, which has three southwest Washington offices. Patients may also have to travel to Centralia or Vancouver for family planning services, she said.

In the long-run, she said, "People will go without."

[MooseMan]

Good news of the day.

Even in the state that Planned Parenthood gave an A+, they're closing their clinics of death.

[Texas Eagle]

Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord!

[MooseMan]

Jerry Ross, a retired Kalama businessman and anti-abortion activist who has been picketing the Longview clinic, let out a cheer when he heard the clinic was closing Friday.

"I am very happy," he said. "I'm going to have a beer tonight."

Let's all have a beer.

Cheers!!!!!

[Quick or Dead]

In the long-run, she said, "People will go without."

Go without having their brains vaccuumed out and being tossed into the bio-waste dumpster. How will America endure?

[digger48]

Take Charge

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Current enrollees are encouraged to reapply for another year of family planning services at the TAKE CHARGE provider of their choice.

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[XR7]

[albie]

Now where do they go to crush babies skulls? This is quite the dilemna.

[Texas Eagle]

In honor of The Great State of Washington, I'll drink an Olympia tonight.

Of course, I'll have to immediately wash it down with something a little more hopsy like a Red Seal Ale or a Newcastle.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Correction:

Planned Parenthood to close Longview clinic (WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!)

[Lexinom]

Good riddance! My relatives in Kelso (next to Longview) sure don't want 'em there.

[rusureitflies?]

Another "Plan-to-kill-the-child Parenthood" drowns in it's own blood. Meet your Maker, go to the Baker, I'd say....

[Alter Kaker]

Even in the state that Planned Parenthood gave an A+, they're closing their clinics of death.

Maybe you didn't read the article right. No abortions were performed in the clinic that's closing.

[Alter Kaker]

Now where do they go to crush babies skulls?

I'm not sure, but they sure didn't go to the clinic that's discussed in the article -- no abortions were performed there.

[MooseMan]

Now where do they go to crush babies skulls? This is quite the dilemna.

From the article: In the long-run, she said, "People will go without."

Me: Good.

[B-Chan]

Another victory for the Kingdom of Life... another crushing defeat for the Rebellion! In hoc Sign vinces!

[sergeantdave]

People in a community near me ran a planned parenthood death camp out of town a few weeks after it opened.

[MooseMan]

Another "Plan-to-kill-the-child Parenthood" drowns in it's own blood. Meet your Maker, go to the Baker, I'd say....

Another "Plan-to-kill-your own-child Parenthood" drowns in it's own blood. Meet your Maker, go to the Baker, I'd say....

There, fixed.

[libbylu]

Planned Parenthood here gives birth control to little girls as young as 12, and pays for their birth control pills, etc. If they are out, they send them to the health department to pick them up for free.

[MooseMan]

Even in the state that Planned Parenthood gave an A+, they're closing their clinics of death.

Maybe you didn't read the article right. No abortions were performed in the clinic that's closing.

I'm sure they made referrals.

[Texas Eagle]

Maybe you didn't read the article right. No abortions were performed in the clinic that's closing.

No, of course not.