{"id":432367,"date":"2026-08-14T02:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432367\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T02:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:44:41","slug":"oakland-county-approves-1-5-million-planned-parenthood-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432367\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County approves $1.5 million Planned Parenthood contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted on a proposal that would allocate more than a million dollars to support health services at Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting on Thursday was packed with community members speaking out on both sides of the controversial issue.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-13-182120.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-08-13-182120.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why are you seeking to give $1.5 million to Planned Parenthood for the same services that are already funded?&#8221; said a resident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support Planned Parenthood because of the women&#8217;s healthcare services that they provide. Please vote yes if not for all women, but for your mothers, your sisters, your daughters, your aunts and friends,&#8221; another resident said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal funding cuts have forced Planned Parenthood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/planned-parenthood-of-michigan-closing-3-more-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to close three more health centers across the state<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Oakland County leaders voted on a proposal that would allocate $1.5 million in county funding to maintain access at the Ferndale clinic through August 2028. After hours of public comment and discussion, commissioners voted 11-6.  <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-13-182142.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-08-13-182142.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the money would help preserve access to reproductive and preventative healthcare services, while opponents argue that taxpayer dollars should not be used to support the organization. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed plan would allow the Oakland County Health Department to partner with Planned Parenthood for two years. <\/p>\n<p>The funding would reimburse services provided to Oakland County residents, including cancer screenings, annual wellness exams, STI testing and treatment, contraception, and reproductive health counseling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making sure that all people have access to healthcare is something I believe for and fought for my entire public service career and that&#8217;s what this is about,&#8221; said Oakland County Chairman Dave Woodward. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-13-182218.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-08-13-182218.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted on a proposal that would allocate more than a million dollars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[795,143,904,145,144,16571],"class_list":["post-432367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-michigan","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-planned-parenthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}