Ada Goodman, health center manager at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Anchorage, Alaska, said many barriers to medical care already exist for people across the state who live in remote areas. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

For a local Alaska resident who didn’t qualify for Medicaid because she made a few dollars over the income threshold, Title X family planning funding would have been an option for care at Planned Parenthood in Anchorage. The federal money is used by many clinics to provide low-cost or free services such as birth control to those who have low incomes but make too much to qualify for Medicaid.

But federal authorities cut that money earlier this year, leading the resident to think she would have to pay the full cost to have her birth control implant removed.

So she tried

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