Courtney Normand, the Washington director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said the nonprofit has not discussed plans to close any of its clinics in the state, including the health center on Riddell Road in Bremerton.

Anxiety, however, remains high. Besides routine difficulties facing health care providers, a federal law threatening its Medicaid revenues creates a unique pain point for the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health services.

“It’s existential right now,” Normand said during an interview last week inside the Bremerton Health Center, one of thirty Planned Parenthood locations in the state.

“Everything is compounding,” she said.

All this comes three years removed from the Dobbs decision, a Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended federal p

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