As if the already depressing news didn’t have you down in the dumps enough, Tennessee strikes again. This time, at Planned Parenthood. In both Shelby (Memphis) and Davidson (Nashville) counties, Planned Parenthood is contracted to provide women’s health services for the county, especially in low-income areas of the city. Thanks to…drumroll, please…Gov. Bill Haslam and the rest of the Tennessee GOP, they have decided that Planned Parenthood performs nothing but abortions. Even though it is thoroughly documented that no tax payer money goes toward abortion services, they want Planned Parenthood out. Davidson county seems to have pretty much gone along with it, but Shelby county seems to be being forced into this.
No one seems to care what services are going to be lost to the residents of the 2 most populated counties in the state. The respective counties are supposed to start receiving the money that was going to Planned Parenthood and start performing their own services, but how is that going to work. The new plan is to be implemented on July 1, giving just a couple weeks to completely reorganize the structure of an entire health care system.
I need to do some more research on the topic, but rest assured there will be more on this topic as it becomes available.
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