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Kansas Cuts Planned Parenthood Funds; Alternate Providers Uncertain

For more than three decades, Planned Parenthood has been one of the places where low income Kansans can go for state-subsidized family planning services - things like birth control, pap smears, and STD testing. But starting Friday, Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas will no longer get public funds for such services. That's when state legislation, aimed at taking funds away from clinics that provide abortions, kicks in. But as KCUR's Elana Gordon reports, some clinics that never provided abortion will be cut. And, it's created a fear that poor women in parts of rural Kansas will have a harder time finding affordable family planning services.

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Last month, Kansas joined just a handful of other states in approving legislation that effectively bars Planned Parenthood from receiving public funding, instead directing it to public health departments, federally qualified health centers, and hospitals.

The so-called Title X funding which Planned Parenthood has received is a federal program, allocated through the state, to provide things like discounted cervical cancer screenings, breast exams, and pregnancy tests to low-income women.

Mary Kay Culp, director of the anti-abortion group, Kansans for Life, has been trying get a ban on public funds to Planned Parenthood for years.

"It offends the sensibilities of the tax payers that are funding it," says Culp. "And there's really no reason to send Title X money to Planned Parenthood when it can go to local health clinic that are providing the whole spectrum of services to people that are indigent and need to get services that way."

Kansas receives about $3 million annually in Title X funding. Of that, Planned Parenthood gets about $335,000. Peter Brownlie, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, says those Title X funds have specifically gone to providing discounted family planning services to about 5,800 women a year at their Wichita and Hays clinics. And while such services help prevent women from getting pregnant who don't want to, neither place offers abortions.

Brownlie says Title X accounts for up to a half of their Wichita and Hays budgets. Losing that, he says, threatens their ability to provide services long-term on a sliding scale.

"The major impact is not on Planned Parenthood. We're here, we've been here, we're going to be here," says Brownlie.

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