{"id":3703,"date":"2025-11-24T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:31:36","slug":"how-defund-planned-parenthood-came-to-threaten-primary-care-in-rural-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/how-defund-planned-parenthood-came-to-threaten-primary-care-in-rural-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;defund Planned Parenthood&#8217; came to threaten primary care in rural Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 1, the organization let patients know they would be <a href=\"https:\/\/mainefamilyplanning.org\/health-care\/maine-family-planning-forced-to-close-its-primary-care-practice-due-to-congresss-rescission-of-federal-medicaid-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending primary care<\/a> services at the end of the month at three clinics in the far reaches of the state: Houlton, Presque Isle and Ellsworth. That change affected nearly 1,000 patients, including patients on Medicaid and those with private insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/11\/18\/nx-s1-5611457\/maine-family-planning-trump-budget-medicaid-abortion\">National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 1, the organization let patients know they would be ending primary care services at the end of the month at three clinics in the far reaches of the state: Houlton, Presque Isle and Ellsworth. That change affected nearly 1,000 patients, including patients on Medicaid and those with private insurance. Read more at National &#8230; <a title=\"How &#8216;defund Planned Parenthood&#8217; came to threaten primary care in rural Maine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/how-defund-planned-parenthood-came-to-threaten-primary-care-in-rural-maine\/\" aria-label=\"More on How &#8216;defund Planned Parenthood&#8217; came to threaten primary care in rural Maine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,470,634,624,143,188,713,180],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-defund","tag-harming-women","tag-maine","tag-medicaid","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-primary-care","tag-rural-communities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}