What is a Family Planning Clinic?
A family planning clinic is a health facility that provides contraception and other gynecological services. It is promoted as a means of helping people prevent pregnancy through birth control or other methods until they choose to start families. Many clinics are federally or privately funded in order to provide low income people with preventative health services, such as screenings for breast cancer or sexually transmitted diseases, at a free or reduced cost. The majority of clinics are located in the United States and the United Kingdom, but some family planning clinic doctors travel to developing countries to offer services as acts of charity. Clinics can serve as a way for sexually active people to have ready access to contraception, such as birth control pills or condoms. Depending on where the family planning clinic is located and how much funding it receives, it can accept any size donation as payment or it may have to set a flat fee. Many clinics tend to be cheaper than doctor o
