“With this grant, the administration has opened up a new avenue of health care choices for low income and underserved women and their families in California,” Obria Group Founder and CEO Kathleen Eaton Bravo said in a statement. “Many women want the opportunity to visit a professional, comprehensive health care facility—not an abortion clinic—for their health care needs; today HHS gave women that choice.”
At the same time, HHS is cutting funding to some Planned Parenthood affiliates in five states. Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen bemoaned the decision to slash funding to affiliates in Hawaii, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Virginia, saying, “Planned Parenthood will not let this stand.”
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