Planned Parenthood Federation of America
http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Contact information:
434 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
Cecile Richards, President
Phone: 212-541-7800 Fax: 212-245-1845
E-mail: communications@ppfa.org
cecile.richards@ppfa.org
Website: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
CENTER DESCRIPTION
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate more than 860 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Activism and Organizing, Family, Girls and Adolescents, Global Issues, Health and Health Care, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Violence Against Women and Girls.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Planned Parenthood provides the highest quality sexual and reproductive health care, education, and information to five million women, men, and teens worldwide each year. Planned Parenthood’s 111 affiliates operate more than 860local health centers across the United States.
Planned Parenthood health care experts are recognized authorities in all aspects of reproductive health care, including patient care, health care policy, education, research and technology, and public information. Last year in collaboration with the PPFA National Medical Committee of leading U.S. doctors and researchers, we published new guidelines for the medical management of men’s reproductive care, periodic well-woman care, and care for transgender people as part of our ongoing effort to support innovative, evidence-based clinical services and health care.
In partnership with academic centers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and state departments of health, Planned Parenthood affiliates undertook several research projects in an effort to continuously improve health care and services, including research on emergency contraception and medication abortion service delivery. We developed two comprehensive medical continuing education programs — “Putting risk into perspective: Making informed decisions about hormonal contraception” and “Managing HPV: A new era in patient care.”
In Congress and in statehouses, in the courts, and in the media, Planned Parenthood is a passionate and trustworthy advocate for policies that enable access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, education, and information. Whether talking to members of Congress or arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, we fight for positive policies that promote women’s health, prevent unintended pregnancies through effective family planning programs, and protect the health of young people through comprehensive sexuality education.
The successful mobilization of our activists to protect women’s and young people’s health and safety, through ballot initiative campaigns in California, Oregon, and South Dakota, is an example of Planned Parenthood’s power as a 50-state advocacy organization with nearly four million activists, supporters, and donors. The Planned Parenthood Action Network, which mobilizes activists around the country in support of our goals, recruited more than 200,000 new supporters last year. Also aiding our advocacy efforts are networks of pro-choice clergy members, Republican activists, young women and men on college campuses, and leaders in the arts and entertainment industries.
Planned Parenthood’s concern for reproductive health and freedom extends around the world. We work with partner organizations overseas to improve the sexual health and well-being of individuals and families, and fight at home and abroad to secure responsible policies affecting sexual and reproductive health globally. PPFA is also a founding member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
For more than 30 years, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has supported nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America in providing reproductive health care and education to people around the world. We focus on reducing the number of unsafe abortions through increased access to contraception and safe abortion services, protecting the sexual health of youth, and improving policies on sexual and reproductive health.
The PPFA Africa Regional Office partnered with 15 organizations in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and the Sudan to provide health care and sexuality education to more than 154,603 people, and sexuality education to more than 350,000. The PPFA Asia Pacific Regional Office partner ed with 12 organizations in India, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand to provide services and education to 58,919 people, 4,602 of whom were abortion clients. The PPFA Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office partnered with 18 organizations in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago to provide services and education to more than 205,000 women, men, and young people and to advocate for better laws and policies.
PUBLICATIONS (all of the following are available on our website, www.plannedparenthood.org)
FACT SHEETS
Abortion Access
Emotional Effects of Induced Abortion
Laws Requiring Parental Consent or Notification for Minor's Abortions
Medical and Social Health Benefits Since Abortion was Made Legal in the U.S.
The Difference Between Emergency Contraception Pills and Medication Abortion
How Abortion Is Provided
The Facts Speak Louder than "The Silent Scream"
Abortion After the First Trimester
Nine Reasons Why Abortions Are Legal
Five Ways to Prevent Abortion
Mifepristone: Expanding Women's Options for Early Abortion
George W. Bush's War on Women: A Pernicious Web
Anti-Choice Claims About Abortion and Breast Cancer
Profiles of 15 Leading Anti-Choice Organizations
Teenagers, Abortion, and Government Intrusion Laws
Donating Fetal Tissue for Treatment and Research
Medical Training for Abortion and Contraceptive Services
About Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood by the Numbers
Planned Parenthood Services
Birth Control Access & Prevention
A Brief History of Emergency Contraception
The Difference Between Emergency Contraception Pills and Medication Abortion
Emergency Contraception
A History of Birth Control Methods
George W. Bush's War on Women: A Pernicious Web
Nonoxyonol-9 — Benefits and Risks
America's Family Planning Program: Title X
The Truth About Condoms
Obstructing Access to Emergency Contraception in Hospital Emergency Rooms
Refusal Clauses: A Threat to Reproductive Rights
The Assault on Birth Control and Family Planning Programs
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage
Courts & Judiciary
Griswold v. Connecticut — The Impact of Legal Birth Control and the Challenges that Remain
Roe v. Wade: Its History and Impact
Major U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Reproductive Health and Rights (1965-2007)
George W. Bush's War on Women: A Pernicious Web
Women's Stories of Abortion and Reflections on Roe v. Wade
International Issues
The Global Gag Rule: Playing Politics with Women's Lives — Issue Brief
Global Illegal Abortion: Where There Is No "Roe" — Issue Summary
Obstetric Fistula: A Global Reproductive Health Crisis — Issue Summary
UNFPA, The United Nations Population Fund: A Review of the Role of UNFPA in
Promoting Reproductive Health Worldwide — Issue Brief
UNFPA, The United Nations Population Fund — Issue Summary
Gobal HIV/AIDS: The Politics of Prevention — Issue Summary
Global Illegal Abortion: Where There Is No Roe: An Examination of the Impact of
Illegal Abortion Around the World — Issue Brief
Global HIV/AIDS: The Politics of Prevention — Issue Brief
Medical & Sexual Health
HPV — The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Virus
Relationship Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, & Domestic Violence Threatens
Individuals and Society
The Health Benefits of Sexual Expression
Masturbation — From Stigma to Sexual Health
Potential Adolescent Reproductive Health Coverage in the Children's Health Insurance
Program
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Adolescent Sexuality
Opposing Dangerous Hospital Mergers
Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education
Laws Requiring Parental Consent or Notification for Minor's Abortions
Pregnancy and Childbearing among U.S. Teens
Abstinence-Only Programs
Reducing Teenage Pregnancy
Teenagers, Abortion, and Government Intrusion Laws
SPANISH
INFORME
Acceso a los anticonceptivos y prevencion
Anticoncepcion de emergencia
La diferencia entre la anticoncepcion de emergencia y el aborto inducido por
medicamentos
La verdad sobre los condones
Clausulas de negacion: Una amenaza a los derechos reproductivos
Acceso al aborto
El aborto despues del primer trimestre
Mifepristona: Nuevas opciones para un aborto temprano
La diferencia entre la anticoncepcion de emergencia y el aborto inducido por
medicamentos
Los opositores a la libertad de elegir senalan que existe una asociacion entre el aborto y
el cancer de mama
Leyes qu exigen el consentimiento o la notificacion a los padres en el caso de menores
que deseen abortar
Nueve razones por las cuales los abortos son legales
Cinco maneras de prevenir un aborto (Y lo que no funciona)
Como se proporcionan los abortos
Beneficios medicos y sociales desde la legalizacion del aborto en Estados Unidos
Adolescentes, aborto y leyes de intrusion del gobierno
Los hechos hablan mas claro que El grito silencioso
Las consequencias emocionales del aborto inducido
Las cortes y el poder judicial
Importantes fallos de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de los Estados Unidos en materia de
salud y derechos reproductivos (1965-2007)
Roe contra Wade — Antecedentes e impacto
Griswold contra Connecticut — El impacto de la legalizacion del control de la natalidad y los desafios que se deben enfrentar
Asuntos internacionales
VIH/SIDA EN EL MUNDO — Politicas de prevencion — Resumen
ABORTO ILEGAL EN EL MUNDO — Cuando no existe un caso "Roe" — Resumen
UNFPA — FONDO DE POBLACION DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS
LA FISTULA OBSTETRICA — Una crisis de salud reproductiva a nivel mundial —
Resumen
VIH/SIDA EN EL MUNDO — Politicas de prevencion
UNFPA — FONDO DE POBLACION DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS — Resumen
ABORTO ILEGAL EN EL MUNDO — Cuando no existe un caso "Roe"
Salud medica y sexual
VPH — El virus de transmision sexual mas comun
El maltrato en las relaciones, la violencia con la pareja intima y la violencia domestica
constituyen ua amenaza para las personas y para la sociedad
Los beneficios de la expresion sexual para la salud
Masturbacion: Del estigma a la salud sexual
La sexualidad en los adolescentes
El embarazo entre adolescentes y la educacion sexual
Leyes que exigen el consentimiento o la notificacion a los padres en el caso de menores
que deseen abortar
Adolescentes, aborto y leyes de intrusion del gobierno
Programas de educacion sexual basados en la consigna "solo abstinencia"
Acerca de nosotros - Quienes somos
Planned Parenthood en cifras
Servicios de Planned Parenthood
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