Women’s health funding faces cuts: (Montana) House budget excludes $4.5M for Title X funds
HELENA AP) When Jennifer Strickley first learned she had ovarian cancer, it was Planned Parenthood that detected the disease.
She had been going to a clinic in Billings for about a decade, as the discounts on Pap tests, contraception and regular checkups provided an essential break for the single mom working without health insurance as a waitress to support her two kids.
So when she found lump on her abdomen in 2011, thats where she went to get it checked out.
Strickley is one of 26,000 Montanans who rely upon clinics that receive federal family planning and preventive health funds in the form of Title X.
But the Montana House unanimously passed a state budget that excludes these funds some $4.5 million accounting for 30 percent of the budgets for 20 community clinics and five Planned Parenthood Clinics in the state.
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read more about how this will KILL women in Montana here:
http://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/women-s-health-funding-faces-cuts-house-budget-excludes-m/article_b8608c78-9a7c-11e2-bf10-0019bb2963f4.html