Posted on 02/19/2007 2:12:15 PM PST by 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."
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prolife ping!
Reproductive "care"?
If what Planned Parenthood is doing is giving care, we're better off without them.
Didn't you know? We're supposed to support Planned Parenthood now that Giuliani is our man.
I'm sure they did too, but it's strange for conservatives to applaud the closing of a clinic that provided gynecological exams and birth control, when that closure means more resources will now be available to spend on clinics that actually provide abortions.
Read the article again. This wasn't an abortion clinic. Closing ordinary gynecology clinics means planned parenthood will be able to spend more money on its abortion clinics with the money it saves. This is not a good thing.
Time for us pro-lifers to replace it with a clinic of their own. . .STD testing with abstinence counseling, free pregnancy tests, pre-natal care. . . so there is nowhere in that community for PP to return to.
Real nice graphic!!!
:)
"The closure of the small clinic, which is open each Thursday, comes as low-income patients are having difficulty finding reproductive care"
So poor women cannot have their unborn babies slaughtered in Longview any longer? Cry me a river.
"The closure of the small clinic, which is open each Thursday, comes as low-income patients are having difficulty finding reproductive care"
So poor women cannot have their unborn babies slaughtered in Longview any longer? Cry me a river.
Sorry for the double post
Woohoo!
Thanks for the ping.
Keep those prayers and Rosaries coming, folks! It's prayer that shuts these places of death down!
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**Allen said Friday that the closure was necessary after federal officials cut family planning services for 7,800 people in the "Take Charge" program.**
It's Bush's fault. </sarc off
Gosh, I'm always so envious of such applause but not this time.
One abortion gin mill down, more to go.
Amen to what you said!
As a Longview resident, I sure don't want PP in my hometown. The only hospital in Longview is a Catholic hospital which won't come close to baby killing.
Not really. Planned Parenthood providing gynecological exams is like Al Capone sponsoring soup kitchens. The organization is about abortion above all else, as evidenced in the sickening abortion Christmas cards they put out every year. The more Planned Parenthood clinics that go under, the better.
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