{"id":379236,"date":"2018-10-01T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/contraception-deserts-likely-to-widen-under-new-trump-administration-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:17:12","slug":"contraception-deserts-likely-to-widen-under-new-trump-administration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/contraception-deserts-likely-to-widen-under-new-trump-administration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"“Contraception Deserts” Likely to Widen Under New Trump Administration Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawrenceville, Georgia \u2014 When Nikia Jackson needed to be screened for a sexually transmitted disease, she wanted a clinic that was reputable, quick and inexpensive.<\/p>\n

After searching online, Jackson, 23, ended up at the Obria Medical Clinics\u2019 sparkling new facility in an office park in suburban Atlanta. She was unaware that the clinic does not offer condoms or other kinds of birth control beyond so-called natural family planning methods.<\/p>\n

Religious conservatives say these types of clinics are the future of women\u2019s sexual health care in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cA woman needs choice, but you can\u2019t have a choice if the only clinic that a woman can go to is Planned Parenthood,\u201d said Kathleen Bravo, chief executive of the Obria Group and a devout Catholic.<\/p>\n

Young women, she said, \u201cdon\u2019t want to live every day having to take a carcinogen,\u201d referring to hormonal contraception.<\/p>\n

For decades, contraception drew widespread bipartisan support, but since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, religious conservatives trained their ire on the law\u2019s contraception mandates, and the politics of abortion and birth control converged.<\/p>\n

Bravo is positioning her company to become a nationwide alternative to Planned Parenthood and aims for it to qualify for millions of dollars in federal family planning funds next year. With 38 clinics and 22 more slated to open, Obria offers tests for pregnancy, STIs, HIV and cervical cancer and prenatal care.<\/p>\n

But patients seeking to prevent pregnancy can receive only fertility planning methods that require women to track their periods and refrain from sex when most fertile. When followed exactly, the method is 76 percent effective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

That vision has found favor with the Trump administration, which has proposed sweeping changes to a $280 million federal program called Title X, the only source of federal funds for birth control for low-income women who lack health insurance.<\/p>\n

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