{"id":192183,"date":"2018-12-05T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192183"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:39:36","slug":"idaho-planned-parenthood-keeps-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/idaho-planned-parenthood-keeps-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Planned Parenthood drops other services but keeps abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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News from a Planned Parenthood facility in Idaho further demonstrates that\u00a0Americans do not want to access basic health services from the largest provider of abortions in the nation.\u00a0 Reports indicate that Planned Parenthood in Boise, Idaho, which\u00a0commits<\/a> abortions, has been forced to end a pilot program<\/a>\u00a0that allegedly offered primary health services. The program was only in operation for a few years.<\/p>\n

Boise Public Radio reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that Planned Parenthood is ending some primary care services in Boise, but its main services, things like women\u2019s health and reproductive care, are safe and going strong. Broader primary care services at the Boise clinic\u2014treating things like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and more acute colds and flus\u2014were part of a pilot program that started in 2016. Those particular services are the ones that are no longer being offered.<\/em><\/p>\n

The reason for nixing the program, according to Kara Cadwallader, VP of Medical Affairs and Senior Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands (PPGNHI), was that Planned Parenthood “just didn\u2019t have many patients<\/strong>…. [M]ost of the people they were trying serve had access to those services elsewhere.”<\/p>\n

The 2016 Idaho Health and Welfare Vital Statistics Report<\/a>\u00a0states that abortions were committed in Idaho on “girls as young as 10-14” and on “babies as far along in gestation as 25 weeks.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0When Planned Parenthood closes, women find real health care at hundreds of other clinics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recent examples from various states, listed below, demonstrate that what is behind some Planned Parenthood closures are declining patient demand as well as the corporation’s decision to redirect resources to busier locations.<\/p>\n

Indiana<\/strong><\/p>\n

When\u00a0Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Northern Kentucky announced the closing of two facilities in central Indiana, Fox59 reported<\/a>, “Access to free birth control through the Affordable Care Act and ability to get emergency contraceptives like Plan B without a prescription also reduced the number of people<\/strong> walking through their doors.”<\/p>\n

New Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

In May 2017<\/a>, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Planned Parenthood’s “clinic closures in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Farmington… are part of a larger consolidation effort aimed at keeping the organization solvent for years to come….”<\/p>\n

But a\u00a0May 2017<\/a>\u00a0New Mexico Political Report expounded further, noting that those three Planned Parenthood facilities slated to close had\u00a0\u201creduced patient volume<\/strong>\u201d and challenges in the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

New Jersey<\/strong><\/p>\n

In April 2018,\u00a0\u00a0The Signal<\/a>\u00a0reported that “the lack of staff and a smaller inflow of patients<\/strong> relative to other locations” led to drastically cutting hours at the College of New Jersey, because Planned Parenthood couldn’t operate “without losing money, according to Janice Vermeychuk, the director of Student Health Services.”<\/p>\n

Wyoming<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the announcement that Planned Parenthood intended to close its Casper office, Whitney Phillips, Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM),\u00a0told<\/a> YP Radio, “<\/em>Multiple factors — including reduced patient volume and greater operational efficiencies<\/strong> — drove the difficult but necessary decision to close the\u00a0health center.”<\/p>\n