Friday, December 30, 2011
The Sentinel
Published on: Thursday, December 15, 2011 Low-income women in Maryland may receive family planning services free-of-charge due to the Family planning Works Act. Delegate Heather Mizeur worked diligently to make her vision for the Family planning Works Act a reality. “I first realized that the way we were currently providing access to family plan services was a little bit backwards,” the Montgomery County democrat said. “Women of low income could only qualify for these services after they were pregnant, five years after they had their first baby. Well, that’s not doing much to help people plan for when they have their first pregnancy. so, I began doing research and pulling together the facts that they would need to do this … and we would be empowering women to have babies, tackling the low infant mortality rates and we would also be lowering the abortion rates and save the state millions of dollars so it was a win-win policy.” There is no need to create new clinics or mobile offices for these services because women can go to any local community center or family planning clinic to receive care. Women can start applying for it now and get a Medicaid card [...]
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