New agency to provide abortions.Byline: JACK MORAN The Register-Guard Former workers at a Eugene abortion clinic An abortion clinic is a medical facility that performs or specializes in abortions. Such clinics may be public medical centers or private medical practices. Planned Parenthood, whose clinics offer abortions as well as other reproductive care and counseling, is the largest that abruptly shut its doors last month have joined forces with Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. officials and other community members to develop a new group dedicated to providing abortion services that are now scarce in Southwestern Oregon. About 75 people showed up at the First Congregational Church First Congregational Church may refer to:
Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. Services in Eugene suddenly closed. "We left women out in the cold," former clinic employee Susanna Reid Susanna Reid (born 10 December 1970) is a journalist and presenter working for BBC News. She can be seen presenting on BBC Breakfast Friday-Sundays alongside co-anchor Bill Turnbull. told the audience. "If you're one of those people, I am sorry." Reid said the clinic's closure, ordered by All Women's Portland-based administrators, left several patients in a lurch. Appointments had been scheduled two weeks in advance, including some that already had been purchased. "Essentially, a lot of women who previously called us for help now have to go to Salem or Portland for abortion services," Bay Ostrach said. All Women's Health Services in Eugene was the only abortion clinic on the Interstate-5 corridor between Salem and Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . It performed 1,400 abortions last year. When it closed, 14 full- and part-time employees lost their jobs. "This was a clinic that served local people as well as others from as far away as California," former clinic supervisor Lauren Gilchrist said. "Now, we are working to find a way to fill in the gaps in Eugene, as well as in the greater Oregon area." Locally, at least three Eugene doctors will perform abortions. Kitty Piercy "Kitty" Piercy is the current mayor of Eugene, Oregon, sworn in January of 2005. The press dubbed Piercy's election part of a "shift to the left" for the Eugene City Council. , public affairs director for Planned Parenthood Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract of Southwest Oregon, said while those doctors are willing to provide abortion services, "They don't want it to be their main business." Piercy said doctors risk their safety and the disapproval of other patients and hospitals when they agree to perform abortions. "But there is one good reason why they should - it's good women's health care," she said. While Planned Parenthood would like to be able to provide abortion services at its Eugene clinic, Piercy said, the organization would risk losing federal funding it receives for family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. and pregnancy prevention services if it did so. "It's a dilemma for us and it's a dilemma everywhere," she said. "Somehow, we've got to put together a unique and new model here in Eugene. We all have to think hard about this, because it's not going to be easy to solve." To help solve the problem, the Network for Reproductive Options has put together its own "wish list" with items that it would need to create a new clinic in Eugene. The group is starting from scratch, hoping volunteers will come forward and provide donations including clinic space, vehicles and office supplies. For more information, the group can be reached by fax at 434-6673, by e-mail at nro@efn.org or by regular mail at P.O. Box 10894, Eugene, OR 97440. |
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