Red stick. – The planned parenthood on Tuesday closed two of its clinics in Louisiana from the fact that, according to the organization, the financial and political problems that did work on the state are growing more after more than 40 years.
Closing makes Luisiana the most densely populated of the four states, without any places of planned parenthood.
The exit emphasizes the pressure on the planned parenthood, since it warns about wider closures throughout the country in the person of reducing the financing of Medicaid in President Donald Trump Tax and expenses accountThe organization also stops advocating work in Louisiana, where the leaders of the Republicans of the state welcomed the closure.
The closure was “not the result of the lack of needs”, but rather the result of “inexorable political attacks that made it impossible for us to continue to work steadily in Louisiana,” said Melanie Linton, president and chief executive director of the bay of the bay.
The supporters said that the closure would have a harmful effect on Louisian, where Planned ParentHood never received abortions on the state, but last year they provided other medical care services for almost 11,000 patients in their clinics Baton -ruzh and New Orleans.
Lawyers and medical workers are afraid that the organization’s departure will further aggravate reproductive health in the condition in which the data on the control and prevention of diseases show that one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. In addition, in the March report of the Office of the Legislative Auditor Louisiana, a significant lack of a lack of obstetrics and deserters in the field of healthcare was noted.
Trump Expenses and taxation plan To instruct the federal government Complete Medicaid payments Within one year, certain abortion suppliers. So far, the organization In an effort to restore funding Through the courts, officials in planning parental cases warned that about a third of about 600 clinics could be forced to close.
Earlier this year, five clinics in California and Eight in Iowa and Minnesota Close their doors. Last week Visconsin partner He announced that he would stop providing an abortion, and a branch of Arizona said that he would stop the services funded by Medicaid.
Louisiana joins Viooming, Northern Dakota and Mississippi as states where the organization is absent.
“This is a victory for children, a victory for mothers and a victory for life!” The Republican Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry published on Tuesday on social networks.
Planned parenthood provides A wide range of servicesIncluding cancer screening and sexual infectious testing and sexual treatment. Medicaid federal money was no longer paid for abortion, but the branches rely on Medicaid to stay afloat.
In Louisiana, a state with one of the highest poverty levels in the country, 60% of patients in Planned ParentHood clinics used Medicaid. Last year, clinics in Louisiana provided almost 30,000 tests for sexually transmitted, 14,400 visits to control over the birth rate, 1800 screening for cancer and 655 ultrasound studies.
Almost ten years ago, Giordin Martin said that she turned to the planned parentalism when she could not afford medical services where else. While in the clinic, the doctor offered Martin a free HIV test. A week later, she was diagnosed with the virus.
“The planned parenthood saved my life,” said Martin, who continued voluntarily in the organization.
Outside the clinic of the plan-Orlean of the planned parenthood on Tuesday, several people gathered and brought gratitude notes to the organization, which spent four decades in Louisiana. Inside the building, up to the end, the employees worked to connect patients with alternative suppliers of medical services.
Starting from Wednesday, calls to the numbers of the planned parenthood in Louisiana will be transferred to the nearest place in Texas or Arkansas.
Michelle Ehrenberg, head of the abortion of the right of abortion in New Orleans named Lift, said that people are contacting her for help to find new clinics. She said that it is important to associate people with suppliers, but worried that the load that he will include in clinics that no longer has a short department.
“Whether patients will quickly attend meetings or gain access to all services provided by Planned Parenthood at the moment is unknown,” she said.
