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Planned Parenthood staff and community speakers urge board to keep Inglewood Health Center open, citing prenatal and sexual-health services
Summary
Multiple health-care providers and community advocates told the Cook County Board that the Inglewood (Englewood) Planned Parenthood Health Center provides essential prenatal, STI and reproductive services and should remain open. Speakers outlined services, patient statistics and community outreach programs that would be disrupted by closure.
Speakers at the Cook County Board meeting on Feb. 5 urged elected officials to keep the Inglewood (Englewood) Planned Parenthood Health Center open, saying it provides prenatal care, sexually transmitted infection testing and other reproductive-health services to low-income residents in a neighborhood the speakers described as a prenatal-care desert.
Saeed Sanchez, representing Mujeres Latinas en Accion, said the Inglewood center is vital for reproductive and contraceptive care for working-class and immigrant…
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