New federally funded clinics emphasize abstinence, natural family planning

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

New federally funded clinics emphasize abstinence, natural family planning

Obria focuses on a “couple” — as opposed to a woman as an individual — and “the benefits of commitment and marriage.”

By Ariana Eunjung Cha July 29 at 12:38 PM

Thousands of California women and teenagers seeking free or discounted reproductive health services through a federal program could find themselves in clinics that focus on abstinence and natural family planning as methods of birth control.

Operated by the California-based Obria Group, the health centers appear to be modeled after faith-based crisis pregnancy centers, designed to persuade women to continue their pregnancies, but with a twist: Obria’s clinics encourage young clients to use online apps, developed with funding from religious conservatives, to “move them away from sexual risks as their only option in life, to an option of self-control.”

Some Obria centers participating in the federal family planning program, known as Title X, also offer “abortion pill reversal,” which involves administering large doses of the hormone progesterone to patients who have taken the first dose of the two-pill medication abortion regimen, according to the group’s site. The procedure, which the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says is not supported by scientific research, is not reimbursable under Title X.

Chief executive Kathleen Eaton Bravo is pitching Obria as a “pro-life” alternative to Planned Parenthood — by far the largest recipient of family planning funds under the $287 million program, which offers services to about 4 million low-income women and girls. Planned Parenthood is at risk of losing that funding because of a recent rule change that requires abortions to be delivered in separate places than family-planning services and bars directive counseling that mentions abortion.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/07/22/new-federally-funded-clinics-california-emphasize-abstinence-natural-family-planning/

[Laffy Kat]

1. Back to the Dark Ages.

[procon]

2. No help for women here.

What kind of shady doctors are using untested medical treatments on these unsuspecting women?

This smells like a con game to bilk the taxpayers out of billions $$$ under the guise of another religious scam intended to make some people very rich off of exploiting vulnerable women.

[SCantiGOP]

3. What do you call people who practice natural birth control?

Parents.

[Marie Marie]

4. Abstinence? Really? Didn't Bristol Palin show how well that works?

[angstlessk]

5. 1,000 neigh 10,000 years from now

civilized folks will look at APS and call them hieroglyphs, from a long forgotten civilization that had no language.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I just watched an old Murphy Brown rerun

and the BS has been going on for at least 30 years. When will the GOP give it up and face the facts? "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "just say no to drugs" stops drug use are such BS and no one with a triple digit IQ buys this crap.

[trev]

7. Are there RWers who meet this standard?

[BigmanPigman]

8. For the GOP it is a double standard.

Damn hypocrites!