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Related: About this forumPlanned Parenthood Wisconsin Closes Four Clinics Due To State Funding Cuts
What war on women?
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced the closure of four family planning health centers on Monday as a result of the state legislature's elimination of funding to the health care provider.
The clinics in Beaver Dam, Johnson Creek, Chippewa Falls and Shawano, which serve approximately 2,000 patients, will close between April and July of this year. Planned Parenthood says that it is the only provider of reproductive health care in each of those four communities.
Women are going to have to drive even longer distances just to get basic health care like wellness exams, cancer
screenings and birth control, said Deb Bonilla, vice president of patient services for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. We are doing all we can to ensure that women get the care they need, but in some instances the resulting barriers to care will make health care access very difficult.
Gov. Scott Walker (R) and the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a budget in 2011 that eliminates public funding for low-income and uninsured patients seeking reproductive health care at Planned Parenthood, the largest provider in the state, because some of its clinics offer abortions. The budget cuts defunded nine family planning health centers, which provide birth control, cervical and breast cancer screenings, annual exams, STD testing and treatment, Well Women Exams, pregnancy testing, and HIV testing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/planned-parenthood-wisconsin_n_2711621.html
The clinics in Beaver Dam, Johnson Creek, Chippewa Falls and Shawano, which serve approximately 2,000 patients, will close between April and July of this year. Planned Parenthood says that it is the only provider of reproductive health care in each of those four communities.
Women are going to have to drive even longer distances just to get basic health care like wellness exams, cancer
screenings and birth control, said Deb Bonilla, vice president of patient services for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. We are doing all we can to ensure that women get the care they need, but in some instances the resulting barriers to care will make health care access very difficult.
Gov. Scott Walker (R) and the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a budget in 2011 that eliminates public funding for low-income and uninsured patients seeking reproductive health care at Planned Parenthood, the largest provider in the state, because some of its clinics offer abortions. The budget cuts defunded nine family planning health centers, which provide birth control, cervical and breast cancer screenings, annual exams, STD testing and treatment, Well Women Exams, pregnancy testing, and HIV testing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/planned-parenthood-wisconsin_n_2711621.html
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Planned Parenthood Wisconsin Closes Four Clinics Due To State Funding Cuts (Original Post)
Viking12
Feb 2013
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Botany
(70,516 posts)1. Way to help keep the women's vote solidly blue for years.
n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Denying healthcare to Wisconsin citizens give Squat Wanker a boner...
... and has the added side-effect of causing salivation among his supporters, who have been taught to hate almost everyone.
RubiconIII
(7 posts)3. As Usual
As usual with Republican economics, this will have the effect of costing taxpayers more.