Planned Parenthood will keep clinics open, despite ‘existential’ funding loss

Courtney Normand, the Washington director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said the nonprofit has not discussed plans to close any of its clinics in the state, including the health center on Riddell Road in Bremerton.

Anxiety though remains high. Besides routine difficulties facing health care providers, a federal law threatening its Medicaid revenues creates a unique pain point for the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health services.

“It’s existential right now,” Normand said during an interview last week inside the Bremerton Health Center, one of 30 Planned Parenthood locations in the state…

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