For more than two month, advocates of the Kings County Reproductive Health Clinic (“Keep the Clinic” campaign,) which is a place where uninsured women can have access to breast and cervical cancer screening, have been vocal at many of the Kings County Board of Supervisors board meetings, providing statistics, facts, personal stories, and countless arguments about why the closure of the clinic was more harmful to the community and why it was important to maintain the clinic open. The clinic specialized in women’s health in Kings County, which is considered a rural area with a high number of uninsured people. The clinic had 4,200 patients. Also Kings County has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state of California. The all-male board voted 4 to 1 to close down the reproductive health clinic on Jan. 1, 2014.
