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“IT WAS REALLY REFRESHING TO BE IN A ROOM WITH A LOT OF PASSIONATE PEOPLE. THERE WERE A LOT OF PERSPECTIVES I HAD NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT.” MEGAN CARTER
never thought about.” Carter went on to cite a religious panel that was pro-choice. Alonso, who “handles the money,” is not certain where the grant money will be allotted. Many ideas have been discussed, but the executive board would like to give the whole group the opportunity to decide where the money will go. “We want it to be something we can keep feeding into throughout the years, and we
can continue to build whatever it is we choose to do with it,” says Alonso. Although there are no set plans for the future of the grant, Alonso acknowledged that southeast Ohio has a lot of gaps with women’s health coverage. “Athens County is the poorest county in Ohio,” Carter said, “laws that restrict women’s health disproportionately affect women in lower socioeconomic classes and minority women.”
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