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Article: State clinics running low on birth control supplies

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August 15, 2006
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Family planning clinics in West Virginia can weather for now the drought of birth control pills and patches with their in-house stocks, but some nurses and administrators say their clinics can only hold on for the next month or so.

Some clinics serve as a county's only source of free contraceptives to low-income men and women. And clinics in Monongalia County face a rush of students when classes at West Virginia University start next week.

"As of now, we're OK for another month, but when we place the next order, it's anybody's guess," said Connie Mollohan, the nurse at the

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