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Show Court Denies Clinic Appeal for Funds The Park City Community Clinic got its answer from a Washington, D.C. appellate court Friday, and the news was bad. The court had turned down their appeal from the government decision deci-sion to cut off funding to the clinic, and to Utah Planned Parenthood clinics. The clinic had filed their appeal after the federal government decided to de-fund de-fund the local unit and turn the monies over to the state for distribution. The decision was largelv one of form made such a decision. They are awaiting an analysis of the appellate court decision by their attorneys at the moment; and will-then turn to the decisions which have to be made one way or another when they have decided whether or not to appeal the appellate court decision. Until then, the clinic is open for business as usual, and, at least for the time being, are getting their funding through the state. rather tha:i substance since the state turned around and granted the same monies to the clinic through the county commission. The clinic, however, decided, de-cided, along with Planned Parenthood, that they wanted want-ed their funds to come directly from the government and hence, filed their appeal. By getting their funds directly from Washington, the clinic also had the advantage of bypassing any Utah regulations on how they spent it or in what manner - they served their clientele. The text of the appellate decision raised this point and may have created problems for the local group as well as family planning statewide. The decision stated family planning groups had the-responsibility the-responsibility to disseminate information, contraceptive devises and prophylactics to minors whether or not their parents know anything about " it. - ' Since the state has a definite regulation that minors mi-nors not be treated by family planning clinics, nor given any type of prescriptions by any such group, an impass may have been reached , which will result in a major policy decision on the part of the clinic and its genera. The clinic has as yet not |