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County commissioners reject birth-control pill

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Saline County commissioners have removed a birth-control pill called Portia from a list of items the county health department wants to purchase with a $1,032 grant from the state Department of Health and Environment.

Bronson Farmer, director of the Saline County Health Department, plans to ask the commission on Tuesday that the grant be used to purchase birth control pills that have been approved by commissioners as stock becomes low.

The Salina Journal reports county health department officials indicated last week they wanted to spend the grant money on Portia, which is not currently in stock. But Commissioner John Price objected to the brand and said it could be used as a “morning after” pill.

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