Here are three things to know.
1. The Wyoming Health Council, the umbrella group for 15 publicly funded family planning centers in Wyoming, is partly funded by Title X, a federal grant program that provides people with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services. The group hopes for donations, but none have come in, according to the report.
2. Clinics in Indiana face budget strains due to the post-election rush on IUDs and other long-lasting contraceptives such as implants, according to the report. “At the end of the day, we’ve decided that if a woman wants an IUD, we will get it for her,” Kristen Adams, president and CEO of the Indiana Family Health Council, a nonprofit that distributes funds to 26 clinics in the state, told NPR. “That means a lot of budget shifting.”
3. In other states, family planning organizations told NPR they are equipped for a brief increase in patients, but if they continue to see an increase in women seeking IUDs and other reproductive services continues, things might become more challenging financially.
For more on this story, read the full NPR report.
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