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Planned Parenthood's advocacy activities are executed by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which is registered as a 501(c)(4) charity, and files financial information jointly with PPFA. [4] The committee was founded in 1996, by then-president Gloria Feldt, to maintain supportive health rights and supporting political candidates of the same ...
In 2017, Guttmacher reported that almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 4.6% of 20-year-olds and 19% of 30-year-olds having had at least one. [14] More than six million women in the United States, or 11 percent of women of reproductive age, become pregnant each year.
Margaret Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and collaborated in the development of the first birth control pill.
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07459-9. Buchanan, Paul D. (2009). American Women's Rights Movement: A Chronology of Events and of Opportunities from 1600 to 2008, Branden Books. ISBN 978-0-8283-2160-0. Chesler, Ellen (1992).
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an organization founded in 2013 by activist David Daleiden also known for its undercover video sting operation in a Planned Parenthood clinic with the accusation that the reproductive health service provider sells fetal body parts and tissues for profit.
However, a 2020 study by Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute — a research and policy organization dedicated to expanding sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide ...
Birth control advocacy organizations around the world also began to collaborate. In 1946, Sanger helped found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood, which evolved into the International Planned Parenthood Federation and soon became the world's largest non-governmental international family planning organization. [33]
That year, 15% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [10] In March 2016, there were 35 Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. [18] In 2017, there were 34 Planned Parenthood clinics, of which 26 offered abortion services, in a state with a population of 1,645,293 women aged 15–49. [19]