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September 11, 2019

Two Planned Parenthood Facilities in Ohio Close After Losing Funding

Jill Stanek
Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio recently announced that the Springdale Health Center and Western Hills Health Center in West Price Hill will close by September 20. The two clinics in the Cincinnati area could not keep their doors open after losing Title X funding just a month ago. In 2016, Ohio defunded Planned Parenthood from several state programs as well, making operations even more difficult for them.

According to a story from Cincinnati.com, neither of the clinics even performed abortions, but because Planned Parenthood refused to stop referring patients to abortion clinics they still lost federal funding. A New York Times editorial expressed fear that that was likely to happen to many more clinics in the near future. Click here for more.