Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood (PP) is a national reproductive and sexual health care organization with more than 800 health centers across the nation. It prides itself on being the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. Some services offered at PP include sexual health education, providing contraceptive and emergency contraceptive, prenatal care, and STD testing/treatment. Some PP clinics provide surgical/medical abortions.

About Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger started the nation’s first birth control clinic with her sister in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York. She also founded the first scientific journal on contraception, The Birth Control Review.’ In 1923 Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau and, later that year, the American Birth Control League. These two organizations combined to form the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

After many battles for contraceptive rights and other women’s health issues, Planned Parenthood (PP) ’believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence.’’ It aims to provide reproductive health care services while protecting privacy and individual rights, as well as advocating public policies which are in line with this goal. PP also strives to provide human sexuality education and support research in reproductive healthcare.

PP has 84 independent local affiliates operating more than 800 health centers across the United States, and it says that 1 in 5 women in the United States has utilized a PP health center at least once.

While controversy abounds over Planned Parenthood and its practices, it claims that only 3 percent of its services involve abortion (including in-clinic procedures and the abortion pill). The following is a list of other services a PP clinic may provide:

• Information on birth control (including abstinence and male birth control)
• Birth control (various methods including condoms, the pill, the patch, the shot, the sponge, etc.)
• Emergency contraceptive (the morning-after pill)
• Body image counseling
• Men’s sexual health care
• Prenatal care
• Sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing and treatment (including HPV testing)
• Breast cancer screening
• Pap testing

If you are looking for a PP health center, visit PlannedParenthood.org; or call 1-800-230-PLAN with any questions you have.

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