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Article: Birth control pills bought: State to stock 3-month supply of contraception
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 26, 2006
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mkelly@wvgazette.com
West Virginia's family planning clinics caught a welcome, if
potentially short-lived, break this week after state officials
approved the immediate purchase of a three-month supply of free birth
control pills and patches for low-income West Virginians.
The contraceptives should arrive next week, alleviating a months-
long shortage of contraceptive pills and patches that struck family
planning clinics in West Virginia and across the nation after top
supplier Ortho-McNeil drastically raised its prices for those
products July 1.
"It's going to give us a little breathing room," said Denise
Smith, executive director of West Virginia Family Planning, the state
agency that ...