MANVILLE — The only Somerset County location of Planned Parenthood will be shutting its doors within the next month, according to a representative at the clinic in the borough.
A woman who answered the phone at the Manville Planned Parenthood Thursday afternoon confirmed the location will be closing within the next month, although she said no particular closing date has been set yet.
The woman did not provide her name to NJ.com, and she referred comment to the media relations department of Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern New Jersey, which declined to comment on the closing.
Several NJ.com readers said on Facebook they recently received an automated message from the Manville Planned Parenthood, indicating the clinic's patients would soon have to go to a different location.
The next closest Planned Parenthood location to Manville — which is located on South Main Street in the borough and only open on Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. — would be in New Brunswick.
Nationally, on Wednesday, Planned Parenthood told staff members at three of its facilities in Texas that they would be closing, The Huffington Post reported.
