Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho has announced that its Planned Parenthood location in Twin Falls, Idaho, will no longer see clients in-person after Thursday, December 19.
According to the announcement, which appears on the website of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK), the location is closing so the abortion giant can “consolidate resources.” But the center is only closing to in-person visits. According to the announcement, the “Twin Falls, ID health center will close permanently to in-person appointments, effective after Dec. 19, 2024” but the affiliate’s page also says “Telehealth appointments [for non-abortion services] can be booked via our Juneau health center and Twin Falls health center pages.”
The affiliate closed its facility in Juneau, Alaska, on May 15, 2022.
“At PPGNHAIK, patient access to high-quality, compassionate health care is at the core of our mission. To sustain Planned Parenthood’s mission and protect care access across our region for years to come, we are consolidating resources after a careful evaluation of patient needs and the challenges we face,” claimed PPGNHAIK. “These challenges include rising costs, low reimbursement rates, the lasting effects of Covid-19, the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, and targeted attacks on reproductive health care.”
A court ruled earlier this month that Idaho’s Attorney General will not be allowed to prosecute doctors who refer for out-of-state abortions in violation of Idaho’s laws.
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Planned Parenthood announced in 2019 that it planned to merge its Idaho locations. That merger was completed in April 2021 and combined Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands with Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, creating PPGNHAIK. Now, it appears the organization is consolidating again.
Despite the claim that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has fueled this recent closure, Planned Parenthood’s consolidation and closing of locations began prior to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But since Dobbs, Planned Parenthood has continued to close facilities, including in Iowa, Missouri, and even pro-abortion Colorado.
Idaho was one of several states that had a trigger law in place when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and Planned Parenthood immediately filed a lawsuit to attempt to block that law. Planned Parenthood has targeted Idaho with advertising and lawsuits to promote abortion in the state and undermine the state’s pro-life laws.
The state’s Defense of Life Act defines induced abortion as “the use of any means to intentionally terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child…”
The law protects all preborn children from abortion but allows doctors who commit abortions to use three distinct reasons as a defense to avoid penalties. Those reasons include 1) if a woman’s life is considered to be at risk, 2) if a woman has been raped and reports the rape or act of incest and then gives the report to the doctor, or 3) if a minor has been raped and reports the rape or act of incest and gives the doctor that report.
One Idaho Planned Parenthood facility remains open in Meridian, offering birth control, emergency contraception, “gender-affirming care,” and HIV services, among others.
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