Federally Qualified Health Centers Could Not Readily Replace Planned Parenthood
It is unrealistic to expect federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to serve the millions of women who currently rely on Planned Parenthood for high-quality care. To take on Planned Parenthood’s current clients seeking contraceptive services, FQHC sites providing such care would have to at least double their contraceptive client caseloads in 27 states. In nine of those states, they would have to at least triple their capacity.
Nationwide, this means these FQHC sites would need to double their current capacity for these services, taking on an additional two million contraceptive clients.
