At 16 years old, Jessica Rogers says her period pain was “unbearable” — so excruciating, that sometimes it would force her to miss school. When her mother refused to acknowledge her pain, Rogers turned to Planned Parenthood.
The decision will cost Planned Parenthood $60 million dollars in funding and put the 1.5 million Title X patients who use their clinics in danger of losing access to reproductive care. For residents of Utah, where Planned Parenthood has been the only Title X recipient for the last 35 years, there may be nowhere else to turn for affordable family planning and reproductive services.
Although it’s only been a couple of weeks since Planned Parenthood withdrew from the Title X program, its patients are already experiencing higher fees and longer waits at Planned Parenthood clinics across the nation.
Planned Parenthood Utah served Dotson and over 39,000 Title X patients in 2018 alone. But while Dotson has a good job and a home, over 50 percent of Planned Parenthood’s Title X patients are below “100 percent of poverty” and qualify for full subsidies, according to Galloway. The Trump administration is similarly critical of the decision. In an statement to NPR, the Department of Health and Human Services officials said that Planned Parenthood and other organizations who withdrew from the Title X program over the policy change are “blaming the government for their own actions” and are “abandoning their obligations to serve their patients under the program."
Twenty-eight-year-old Utah resident Esmeralda Cabrera says she relied on Title X as a “broke” college student. “I used Planned Parenthood for birth control, a pelvic exam and STD testing. I had no insurance, and worked as a waitress making absolutely no money, so going to my regular doctor wasn't an option,” she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “So I went to the one place I could go to get services I really needed without paying an arm and a leg for being self pay.
“It is part of our job and our charge to provide patients with factual and compassionate expertise care to our patients” Traxler tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “The gag rule is really an offense to that and I'm proud of Planned Parenthood for standing with providers to say, ‘We're not going to allow providers to be bullied into keeping information from our patients for grant money.’”
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