The clinics and the groups representing them argue, however, that the restored funds will not undo all of the harm done over the many months the money was withheld. Though many clinics had been saving their receipts from low-income patients who came in for birth control, testing for sexually transmitted infections and other Title X services and can submit them now for federal reimbursement, dozens of clinics have since shut down and are unlikely to reopen.
"More than 800 service sites were unable to provide Title X services. Hundreds of thousands of patients were unable to get Title X services. So the impact was tremendous," said Brigitte Amiri, the deputy director at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project who represented the clinics in the case. "So damage certainly was done as a result of their unlawful withholding of the funds."…
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