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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization [1] that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and sexual education in the United States and globally. It is a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
Green Party of the United States, promotes green politics, including support for elective abortion care and contraception. Peace and Freedom Party , a left-wing party supportive of environmentalism, aboriginal rights, rights to sexuality, government-funded health care, a woman's right to an abortion, public education, subsidized housing, and a ...
The American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921; it would become Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. [76] [77] By the 1930s, licensed physicians performed an estimated 800,000 abortions a year. [78]
Planned Parenthood has placed reproductive rights front and center at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago and is offering free vasectomies, medication abortions and emergency ...
Planned Parenthood Great Plains CEO Emily Wales, left, and health care manager Logan Rink answer questions during an Aug. 16, 2024, interview in the Pittsburg Planned Parenthood clinic.
In 1939 the two were reconciled and merged to form the Birth Control Federation of America. [citation needed] In 1942 the name was changed to Planned Parenthood Federation of America. [1] Its headquarters were located at 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City from 1921–1930 and at various offices on Madison Avenue from 1931–1939.
More than six million women in the United States, or 11 percent of women of reproductive age, become pregnant each year. More than half of these pregnancies, or approximately 3.4 million, are unintended, and 1.6 million of the unintended pregnancies are terminated through abortion. [15]
In November 2015, a gunman killed a police officer and two people accompanying friends to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. In the 1990s there were several bombings of abortion clinics.