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September 10, 2013

Montana County Shuts Down Funding for Women's Health Services 
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A county in Montana has shut down funding for a clinic that provides
health care to mostly low-income women. Commissioners in Ravalli County
voted Friday to refuse $50,000 in federal funds to operate the county
family planning clinic which provides birth control, annual exams, and
other services to roughly 400 women, who will now see those services cut
off at the end of the month. Some commissioners said they objected to
the fact that minors could receive healthcare under the program without
their parents being notified first.

 

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