IOWA CITY, Iowa — Planned Parenthood will be ending in-person care at its Iowa City location at the end of July, leaving only one clinic for Iowans to get in-person care from the reproductive healthcare provider.
On Monday, Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) announced it was ending in-person care at the Iowa City Health Center on July 31 amid rising budget constraints, restrictions on care, and what it called unrelenting political attacks.
“PPNCS has spent years working to absorb the growing demand for care amid declining and unstable funding streams,” a press release said in part. “Federal and hostile state actions have intensified pressure on the organization, including a Trump administration attack last week that defunded the organization from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program for a second time, growing threats to Title X funding, and threats to extend the prohibition of Medicaid patients using their insurance to cover care at Planned Parenthood — a provision that was passed as part of HR1 that is expected to expire on July 4.”
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The organization also cited reimbursement rates failing to keep up with the cost of care. According to PPNCS, Title X reimbursement covers 41% of the cost of care. An increase in the number of people seeking care at Planned Parenthood clinics has also increased costs…