The G.O.P.’s War on Women’s Health Gets Results
Clinics providing essential services to women are struggling — and closing their doors — after years of political attacks.
By The Editorial Board
Sept. 9, 2019
The Trump administration’s recent efforts to undermine the nation’s Title X family planning program are already having their intended effect, making it harder for women’s health clinics to stay afloat and for patients to afford birth control and other services.
Three weeks after Planned Parenthood was effectively forced out of the Title X program, the group has announced that two of its clinics in the Cincinnati area will close this month — a fate that Planned Parenthood officials say was accelerated by the administration’s changes to Title X. Those changes include barring clinics that perform or even refer patients for abortions from receiving federal family planning dollars unless they jump through a near-impossible series of hoops.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/planned-parenthood-ohio-title-x.html