More than 100 people turned out in Portland today to support family planning clinics that face funding cuts at the state and federal level. Public funding makes up nearly half of the budgets for Maine's 45 family planning clinics. But Gov. Paul LePage is proposing to cut roughly a third of the $1.5 million in state funds for family planning. And the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure that would eliminate the federal family planning program that provides $2.2 million to Maine centers.
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