Women’s health center still in the red

BOULDER – A loophole that some family planning providers used to safeguard their state funding did not work for the Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center, so local donors, and city and county departments are providing additional funds to offset the center’s loss of $44,000, the entire amount of funding provided by the state.

Boulder Valley lost its state funding, says Cindy Parmenter, spokeswoman for the state health department, because the health center’s Executive Director Bobbie Anderson hadn’t provided sufficient documentation that its family planning and abortion services were separate. The Colorado Constitution, since 1984, says state funds “directly or indirectly” cannot…