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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A community of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine stated it’ll shut down its major care operations on Friday due to Trump administration cuts to abortion suppliers.
Maine Household Planning operates 18 clinics within the state and says abortions are a comparatively small share of its general companies, which additionally embody most cancers screenings, sexually transmitted illness testing and contraception. The community stated it needed to minimize major care due to the administration’s transfer to dam Medicaid cash from abortion suppliers together with the a lot bigger Deliberate Parenthood.
The transfer to defund abortion suppliers is driving sufferers away from their medical doctors in Maine, stated George Hill, president of Maine Household Planning. The community noticed greater than 600 sufferers in its major care practices final yr, Hill stated.
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“Telling those patients we can’t see them anymore has been devastating, especially knowing that some of them will find it too difficult to get a new provider and may just forego care,” Hill stated.
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Maine Household Planning serves most of the poor and rural areas of the state and usually receives about $1.9 million in Medicaid reimbursements per yr, the community stated in a press release. The community stated it notified its sufferers of the approaching major care closures a few month in the past. The community has about 8,000 sufferers in whole.
Maine Household Planning fought the halting of Medicaid {dollars} in federal court docket, nevertheless it suffered a setback in August when a federal choose dominated towards restoring funding in the course of the community’s ongoing lawsuit towards the Trump administration. The community appealed to a better court docket, and that authorized combat remains to be ongoing.
The Heart for Reproductive Rights filed the case in federal court docket on behalf of the community, and stated Friday it’ll proceed to combat to revive the funding. Nancy Northup, president of the Heart for Reproductive Rights, referred to as the lack of funding for Maine Household Planning “part of a larger strategy to shut down clinics even in states like Maine that protect the right to abortion.”
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