Planned Parenthood will close four clinics in Vermont and one in New Hampshire in June

Deliberate Parenthood of Northern New England is closing 5 of its clinics throughout the area as a part of what the group calls a “sustainability plan.”

4 clinics in Vermont and one in New Hampshire will completely shut their doorways on June 12.

All 5 clinics set to close down solely function two or three days every week, in keeping with every clinic’s web site. On the identical time, Deliberate Parenthood says it can increase hours at seven of its different areas over the course of the subsequent 12 months.

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A company spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

In a press launch, the group didn’t increase on the reason for the closures, however mentioned the choices are meant to maintain Deliberate Parenthood’s companies sustainable within the long-term. Deliberate Parenthood clinics supply a spread of well being companies, together with main care, contraception, being pregnant testing and abortion.

Vermont clinics in Bennington, Hyde Park, Middlebury, St. Albans will shut down in June, as will a clinic in Claremont, New Hampshire. Deliberate Parenthood says it can increase its hours in Barre, Brattleboro and Williston, Vermont, Exeter, New Hampshire, and Sanford, Biddeford, and Topsham, Maine.

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The strikes come after the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court docket, which, if finalized, may overturn Roe v. Wade, which has assured abortion rights nationally for many years. Authorized abortion entry would then be decided by state regulation.

Vermont voters will take into account a poll measure this November that might add a proper to “reproductive liberty” to the state structure.

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