Kings County Board of Supervisors: Keep the Women's Reproductive Health Clinic Open

The Issue

If we do not take action, the Hanford Board of Supervisors will vote to close the Reproductive Health Clinic in January 2014. The Reproductive Health Clinic is the only specialty Women's Clinic in Kings County, CA; being the “only one” of anything is a very big deal, but the distinction is especially important here. Kings County is a rural community with a high undocumented population and the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the state of California, which means that there groups of people that are either unable to go to other clinics, or are simply too uncomfortable to do so. Just because a woman isn’t officially a citizen of the US, or just because a sixteen-year-old made a split second mistake, doesn’t mean they should be denied health care, and allowing the RHC to close would be unfair to all of the people who need it.

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Kelsey RobinsonPetition StarterWriter, reader, gamer, trying my best.
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The Issue

If we do not take action, the Hanford Board of Supervisors will vote to close the Reproductive Health Clinic in January 2014. The Reproductive Health Clinic is the only specialty Women's Clinic in Kings County, CA; being the “only one” of anything is a very big deal, but the distinction is especially important here. Kings County is a rural community with a high undocumented population and the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the state of California, which means that there groups of people that are either unable to go to other clinics, or are simply too uncomfortable to do so. Just because a woman isn’t officially a citizen of the US, or just because a sixteen-year-old made a split second mistake, doesn’t mean they should be denied health care, and allowing the RHC to close would be unfair to all of the people who need it.

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Kelsey RobinsonPetition StarterWriter, reader, gamer, trying my best.

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The Decision Makers

Richard Valle
Richard Valle
District 2 Supervisor
Responded
this clinic is something that the teenage girls in this community need, not all of them have someone to talk to about birth control, or somewhere to go to find out about their options. closing this clinic would be a grave mistake that our teenagers will pay for dearly..
Joe Neves
Joe Neves
District 1 Supervisor
Doug Verboon
Doug Verboon
District 3 Supervisor
Tony Barba
Tony Barba
District 4 Supervisor
Richard Fagundes
Richard Fagundes
District 5 Supervisor
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