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| predecessor = [[American Birth Control League]], Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, Birth Control Federation of America
| formation = {{start date and age|1916|10|16}}<ref group=note>Planned Parenthood dates its beginnings to 1916 when Margaret Sanger opened her first birth control center in Brooklyn. The [[American Birth Control League]] was founded by Sanger in 1921. Its successor organization was formed in 1939 and adopted the name Planned Parenthood in 1942.</ref>
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| region_served = United States, and worldwide through Planned Parenthood Global and [[International Planned Parenthood Federation|IPPF]]<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Pradhan |first1 = Rachana |title = Bush role in Bloomberg charity gets attention: The billionaire's philanthropy partnered with Planned Parenthood on women's health |url = http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-role-in-michael-bloomberg-charity-planned-parenthood-121168 |access-date = November 5, 2015 |publisher =[[Politico]] |date = August 10, 2015 |archive-date = November 1, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151101012530/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-role-in-michael-bloomberg-charity-planned-parenthood-121168 |url-status = live }}</ref>
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The '''Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.''' ('''PPFA'''), or simply '''Planned Parenthood''', is an American [[nonprofit organization]]<ref name="legalstatus">[https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/7413/9620/1089/AR-FY13_111213_vF_rev3_ISSUU.pdf Planned Parenthood Annual Report 2012–2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110041317/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/7413/9620/1089/AR-FY13_111213_vF_rev3_ISSUU.pdf |date=January 10, 2017 }}, p. 18.</ref> that provides [[Sexual and reproductive health|reproductive and sexual healthcare]] and [[sexual education]] in the United States and globally. It is a member of the [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]] (IPPF).

PPFA has its roots in [[Brooklyn]], New York, where [[Margaret Sanger]] opened the first [[birth control]] clinic in the United States, in 1916. Sanger founded the [[American Birth Control League]] in 1921,<ref name="ABCL 1921" /> and 14 years after her exit as its president, ABCL's successor organization became Planned Parenthood in 1942.

Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States.<ref name="PP ataglance" /><ref name="PPFA audited financial" /> It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally.<ref name="PP ataglance" /><ref name="PPFA audited financial" /> The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of [[reproductive rights]].<ref name="PPFA audited financial" /> Research shows that closures of Planned Parenthood clinics lead to increases in maternal mortality rates.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

PPFA is the largest single provider of reproductive health services and the largest single provider of [[abortion]]s in the United States.{{refn|<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Rover |first1 = Julie |title = Planned Parenthood: A Thorn In Abortion Foes' Sides |url = https://www.npr.org/2011/04/13/135354952/planned-parenthood-makes-abortion-foes-see-red |access-date = November 5, 2015 |publisher = [[NPR]] |date = April 13, 2011 |archive-date = October 30, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151030050623/http://www.npr.org/2011/04/13/135354952/planned-parenthood-makes-abortion-foes-see-red |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1 = Kelly |first1 = Erin |title = Republicans try new way to defund Planned Parenthood, avoiding shutdown |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/28/republicans-try-new-way-defund-planned-parenthood-avoiding-shutdown/72973496/ |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work =[[USA Today]] |date = September 28, 2015 |archive-date = October 26, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151026132844/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/28/republicans-try-new-way-defund-planned-parenthood-avoiding-shutdown/72973496/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = #38 Planned Parenthood Federation of America |url = https://www.forbes.com/companies/planned-parenthood-federation-of-america/ |work =[[Forbes]] |access-date = November 5, 2015 |archive-date = November 20, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151120130204/http://www.forbes.com/companies/planned-parenthood-federation-of-america/ |url-status = live }}</ref>}}<ref name="yahoo.com" /> In its 2023 Annual Report, PPFA reported seeing over two million patients and performing a total of 9.13 million discrete services including 392,715 abortions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Planned Parenthood Annual Report 2022-2023 |url=https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/bf/a3/bfa35e39-14e5-43c3-8192-de42ed9309f1/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf |website=www.plannedparenthood.org |publisher=Planned Parenthood |access-date=27 December 2024}}</ref> Its combined annual revenue is {{US$|1.3|link=yes}}{{nbsp}}billion, including approximately {{US$|530|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million in government funding such as [[Medicaid]] reimbursements.<ref name="PPFA audited financial" /><ref name="JRWP">Ross, Janell. August 4, 2015. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/04/how-planned-parenthood-actually-uses-its-federal-funding/ How Planned Parenthood actually uses its federal funding.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821191858/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/04/how-planned-parenthood-actually-uses-its-federal-funding/ |date=August 21, 2017 }} ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved: August 22, 2015.</ref> Throughout its history, PPFA and its member clinics have been the subject of support, criticism, controversy, protests,{{refn|
* {{cite web |title = Massachusetts abortion clinics boost security, lawmakers seek fix |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion-idUSKBN0F21QE20140627 |date = June 27, 2014 |work =[[Reuters]] }}
* {{cite web |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-komen-funding-idUSBRE82M17Y20120324 |title = Breast cancer fundraising lags after abortion dispute |work =[[Reuters]] |date = March 24, 2012 }}
* {{cite web |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-texas-idUSBRE9600EK20130701 |title = Opponents of Texas abortion restrictions rally at Capitol |work =[[Reuters]] |date = July 1, 2013 }}
* {{cite web |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-protests-idUSKCN0QR0UG20150822 |title = Anti-abortion protesters rally at Planned Parenthood sites |date = August 22, 2015 |work =[[Reuters]] }}
* {{cite web |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-socialmedia-idUSTRE81303T20120204 |title = Social media at forefront of social protest |date = February 3, 2012 |work =[[Reuters]] }}
}} and violent attacks.{{refn|
* For violence, see §[[Planned Parenthood#Violence by anti-abortion activists|Violence by anti-abortion activists]].}}
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== History ==
{{See also|Birth control movement in the United States}}

=== Origins ===

[[File:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|right|[[Margaret Sanger]] (1922), the first president and founder of Planned Parenthood]]

The origins of Planned Parenthood date to October 16, 1916, when [[Margaret Sanger]], her sister [[Ethel Byrne]], and [[Fania Mindell]] opened the [[first birth control clinic in the U.S.]] in the [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]] section of the [[New York City|New York]] borough of [[Brooklyn]].<ref name="goldberg 2012">{{cite news |last1 = Goldberg |first1 = Michelle |title = Awakenings: On Margaret Sanger |url = http://www.thenation.com/article/awakenings-margaret-sanger/ |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work = The Nation |date = February 7, 2012 |archive-date = October 19, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151019052546/http://www.thenation.com/article/awakenings-margaret-sanger/ |url-status = live }}</ref> They distributed birth control, birth control advice, and birth control information. All three women were arrested<ref name="arrest 1916">{{cite web |url = https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/anniversry-of-the-brownsville-clinic-raid/ |title = Anniversary of the Brownsville Clinic Raid |author = Esther Katz (poster) |date = October 26, 2012 |work = Margaret Sanger Papers Project~Research Annex |access-date = March 27, 2016 |archive-date = December 25, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151225022623/https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/anniversry-of-the-brownsville-clinic-raid/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>Engelman, Peter C. (2011), ''A History of the Birth Control Movement in America'', ABC-CLIO, {{ISBN|978-0-313-36509-6}}.</ref><ref>Chesler, Ellen (1992), Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, Simon & Schuster, {{ISBN|0-671-60088-5}}.</ref> and jailed for violating provisions of the [[Comstock laws|Comstock Act]],<ref name="NYT-20240402">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Tina |authorlink=Tina Smith |title=I Hope to Repeal an Arcane Law That Could Be Misused to Ban Abortion Nationwide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opinion/comstock-act-abortion-repeal.html |date=April 2, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240402124934/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opinion/comstock-act-abortion-repeal.html |archivedate=April 2, 2024 |accessdate=April 2, 2024 }}</ref> accused of distributing obscene materials at the clinic. The so-called Brownsville trials brought national attention and support to their cause. Sanger and her co-defendants were convicted on [[misdemeanor]] charges, which they appealed through two subsequent appeals courts. While the convictions were not overturned,<ref name="people v sanger">"People v. Sanger", 179 App. Div. 939, 166 N.Y.S. 1107 (1917)</ref> the judge who issued the final ruling also modified the law to permit physician-prescribed birth control. The women's campaign led to major changes in the laws governing birth control and sex education in the United States.<ref name="socprobs">{{Citation |last1 = McVeigh |first1 = Frank |last2 = Loreen |first2 = Wolfer |title = Brief history of social problems: a critical thinking approach |publisher = [[University Press of America]] |year = 2004 |edition = Illustrated |isbn = 0-7618-2831-1 }}</ref>

In 1921, the clinic was organized into the [[American Birth Control League]],<ref name="ABCL 1921">{{cite book |author = Kathryn Cullen-DuPont |title = Encyclopedia of women's history in America |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oIro7MtiFuYC&pg=PA374 |access-date = November 28, 2011 |date = August 1, 2000 |publisher = Infobase Publishing |isbn = 978-0-8160-4100-8 |page = 11 |archive-date = June 18, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130618103336/http://books.google.com/books?id=oIro7MtiFuYC&pg=PA374 |url-status = live }}</ref> the core of the only national birth-control organization in the U.S. until the 1960s. By 1941, it was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients.<ref name="encyclopedia">{{Citation |last = Balter |first = Lawrence |title = Parenthood in America: an encyclopedia |publisher = [[ABC-CLIO]] |year = 2000 |edition = Illustrated |volume = 1st |isbn = 1-57607-213-4 }}</ref>  In 1923, Sanger opened the Birth Control [[Clinical Research Bureau]] (BCCRB) for dispensing contraceptives under the supervision of licensed physicians and studying their effectiveness.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Collection: Planned Parenthood Federation of America records (PPFA I) {{!}} Smith College Finding Aids|url=https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/465|access-date=2020-08-27|website=findingaids.smith.edu|archive-date=September 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911234600/https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/465|url-status=live}}{{Cc-notice|cc=by3}}</ref>

Some found the ABCL's title offensive and "against families", so the League began discussions for a new name.<ref name="moralprop">{{Citation |last = Gordon |first = Linda |author-link = Linda Gordon |title = The moral property of women: a history of birth control politics in America |publisher = [[University of Illinois Press]] |year = 2002 |edition = 3rd |isbn = 0-252-02764-7 }}</ref> In 1938, a group of private citizens organized the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood to aid the American Birth Control League in spreading scientific knowledge about birth control to the general public. The BCCRB merged with the ABCL in 1939 to form the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA). In 1942 the name of the BCFA was changed to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.<ref name=":2" />

=== 1940s–1960s ===

Under the leadership of National Director D. Kenneth Rose, the PPFA expanded its programs and services through the 1940s, adding affiliate organizations throughout the country. By the end of World War II, the Federation was no longer solely a center for birth control services or a clearing house for contraceptive information but had emerged as a major national health organization. PPFA's programs included a full range of family planning services including marriage education and counseling, and infertility services. The leadership of the PPFA, largely consisting of businessmen and male physicians, endeavored to incorporate its contraceptive services unofficially into regional and national public health programs by emphasizing less politicized aspects such as child spacing.<ref name=":2" />

During the 1950s, the Federation further adjusted its programs and message to appeal to a family-centered, more conservative post-war populace, while continuing to function, through its affiliated clinics, as the more reliable source of contraceptives in the country.<ref name=":2" />

From 1942 to 1962, PPFA concentrated its efforts on strengthening its ties to affiliates, expanding public education programs, and improving its medical and research work. By 1960, visitors to PPFA centers across the nation numbered over 300,000 per year.<ref name=":2" />

Largely relying on a volunteer workforce, by 1960 the Federation had provided family planning counseling in hundreds of communities across the country.<ref name="encyclopedia" /> Planned Parenthood was one of the founding members of the [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]] when it was launched at a conference in [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai), [[India]], in 1952.<ref name="encyclopedia" /><ref name="malthus">{{cite web |url = https://www.academia.edu/28816392 |title = "The Hour of Malthus Has Struck": The Foundation of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Discourses of International Family Planning |author = Sara Weydner |work = academia.edu |access-date = October 30, 2015 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923052609/https://www.academia.edu/28816392 |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1961, the population crisis debate, along with funding shortages, convinced PPFA to merge with the World Population Emergency Campaign, a citizens' fund-raising organization to become PPFA-World Population.<ref name=":2" />

Both Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are strongly associated with the abortion issue today.<ref>{{cite journal |url = https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/protect-womens-health/ |title = Political Attacks on Planned Parenthood Are a Threat to Women's Health |year = 2012 |volume = 306 |issue = 6 |page = 12 |journal = Scientific American |doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican0612-12 |pmid = 22649979 |access-date = January 2, 2017 |archive-date = June 12, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143657/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/protect-womens-health/ |url-status = live |issn=0036-8733|url-access = subscription }}</ref><ref name="Wayne">Wayne, T. (2011). Planned parenthood. In M. Z. Stange C. K. Oyster & J. E. Sloan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of women in today's world (Vol. 4, pp. 1107–1108)</ref> For much of the organization's history, however, and throughout Sanger's life, [[Abortion in the United States|abortion was illegal]] in the U.S., and discussions of the issue were often censored.<ref name="Reagan" /> During this period, Sanger – like other American advocates of birth control – publicly condemned abortion, arguing that it would not be needed if every woman had access to birth control.<ref name=Reagan />

=== 1960s–present ===

[[File:Planned parenthood supporters.jpg|thumb|right|A Planned Parenthood supporter participates in a demonstration in support of the organization]]

Following Margaret Sanger, [[Alan Frank Guttmacher]] became president of Planned Parenthood, serving from 1962 until 1974.<ref name="guttmacher 1974">{{Citation |title = Alan Guttmacher |newspaper = [[The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)|The Toledo Blade]] |page = 28 |date = March 19, 1974 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tfNOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4125%2C1783215 |access-date = February 9, 2011 |archive-date = July 10, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220710143049/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tfNOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4125,1783215 |url-status = live }}</ref> During his tenure, the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) approved the sale of the original [[birth control pill]], giving rise to new attitudes towards women's [[reproductive freedom]].<ref name="encyclopedia" /> Also during his presidency, Planned Parenthood lobbied the federal government to support reproductive health, culminating with President [[Richard Nixon]]'s signing of [[Title X]] to provide government subsidies for low-income women to access family planning services.<ref name="new-yorker-2011">{{cite magazine |first = Jill |last = Lepore |author-link = Jill Lepore |title = Birthright: What's next for Planned Parenthood? |magazine = [[The New Yorker]] |date = November 14, 2011 |url = http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_lepore |access-date = April 22, 2012 |archive-date = October 29, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185033/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_lepore |url-status = live }}</ref> The Center for Family Planning Program Development was also founded as a semi-autonomous division during this time.<ref name="gihistory">{{cite web |title = The History of the Guttmacher Institute |work = Official Website |publisher = [[Guttmacher Institute]] |url = http://www.guttmacher.org/about/history.html |access-date = February 9, 2011 |archive-date = January 16, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110116055420/http://www.guttmacher.org/about/history.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The center became an independent organization and was renamed the [[Guttmacher Institute]] in 1977.<ref name="gihistory" />

Planned Parenthood began to advocate abortion law reform beginning in 1955, when the organization's medical director, [[Mary Calderone]], convened a national conference of medical professionals on the issue. The conference was the first instance of physicians and other professionals advocating reform of the laws which criminalized abortion, and it played a key role in creating a movement for the reform of abortion laws in the U.S.<ref name="Reagan">Reagan, Leslie J. 1997. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997</ref> Focusing, at first, on legalizing [[therapeutic abortion]], Planned Parenthood became an increasingly vocal proponent of liberalized abortion laws during the 1960s, culminating in its call for the repeal of all anti-abortion laws in 1969.<ref name="O'Connor2010">{{cite book |author = Karen O'Connor |title = Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-3J_3pDNZlkC&pg=PA744 |year = 2010 |publisher = SAGE Reference |isbn = 978-1-4129-6083-0 |pages = 744– |access-date = October 23, 2016 |archive-date = December 23, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161223174137/https://books.google.com/books?id=-3J_3pDNZlkC&pg=PA744 |url-status = live }}</ref> In the years that followed, the organization played a key role in landmark abortion rights cases such as ''[[Roe v. Wade|Roe v Wade]]'' (1973) and ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey|Planned Parenthood v Casey]]'' (1992).<ref name="Wayne" />  Once abortion was legalized during the early 1970s, Planned Parenthood also began acting as an abortion provider.

[[Faye Wattleton]] became the first [[African American]] president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1978. Wattleton, who was also the youngest president in Planned Parenthood's history, served in this role until 1992.<ref name="black history">{{cite web |last1 = Middleton |first1 = Britt |title = This Day in Black History: July 8, 1943 |url = https://www.bet.com/article/nfdcj2/this-day-in-black-history-july-8-1943 |publisher = BET |access-date = November 5, 2015 |archive-date = April 16, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190416081610/https://www.bet.com/news/national/2013/07/08/this-day-in-black-history-july-8-1943.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = About Faye |publisher = Faye Wattleton |url = http://www.fayewattleton.com/about/ |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = November 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151103065924/http://www.fayewattleton.com/about/ |url-status = dead }}</ref> During her term, Planned Parenthood grew to become the seventh largest charity in the country, providing services to four million clients each year through its 170 affiliates, whose activities were spread across 50 states.<ref name="faye wattleton 2002">{{Citation |last = Marshall |first = Lauren |title = Women's Rights Advocate Faye Wattleton Elected Newest Columbia Trustee |newspaper = [[Columbia University|Columbia News]] |date = April 4, 2002 |url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/04/fayeWattleton.html |access-date = February 10, 2011 |archive-date = June 29, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023848/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/04/fayeWattleton.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

From 1996 to 2006, Planned Parenthood was led by [[Gloria Feldt]].<ref name="gloria feldt 1996">{{Citation |title = Planned Parenthood Chooses New President |newspaper = [[Ms. Magazine]] |date = January 12, 2006 |url = http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9465 |access-date = February 10, 2011 |archive-date = June 28, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628234247/http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9465 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title = New President: Battle over abortion must be refought |newspaper = [[Gadsden Times]] |pages = A5 |date = April 10, 1996 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lr0fAAAAIBAJ&pg=2474%2C806107 |access-date = February 10, 2011 |archive-date = July 10, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220710143049/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lr0fAAAAIBAJ&pg=2474,806107 |url-status = live }}</ref> Feldt activated the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF), the organization's [[political action committee]], launching what was the most far-reaching electoral advocacy effort in its history.<ref name="lewin 1996">{{Citation |last = Lewin |first = Tamar |title = Shifting gears as the world turns, Planned Parenthood will too under helm of new president |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune]] |page = 9 |date = April 28, 1996 }}</ref> The PPAF serves as the nonpartisan political advocacy arm of PPFA.<ref name="personalities 2015">{{cite web |url = http://www.politifact.com/personalities/planned-parenthood/ |title = Planned Parenthood's file |work =[[PolitiFact]] |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = October 31, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151031070031/http://www.politifact.com/personalities/planned-parenthood/ |url-status = live }}</ref> It engages in educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and [[grassroots organizing]] to promote the PPFA mission. Feldt also launched the Responsible Choices Action Agenda, a nationwide campaign to increase services to prevent [[Unintended pregnancy|unwanted pregnancies]], improve the quality of reproductive care, and ensure access to safe and legal abortions.<ref name="encyclopedia" /> Another initiative was the commencement of a "Global Partnership Program", to build a vibrant activist constituency in support of family planning.<ref name="encyclopedia" />

On February 15, 2006, [[Cecile Richards]], the daughter of former Texas governor [[Ann Richards]], and formerly the deputy chief of staff to the U.S. Rep. [[Nancy Pelosi]] (the Democratic Leader in the [[United States House of Representatives]]), became president of the organization.<ref name="cecile richards 2006">{{cite news |first = Darragh |last = Johnson |pages = C01 |title = Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's Choice Leader |date = March 25, 2006 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402171.html |access-date = September 8, 2017 |archive-date = October 3, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181003070854/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402171.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2012, Richards was voted one of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine's]] ''[[100 Most Influential People in the World]]''.<ref name="time's 100">{{cite news |last = Fluke |first = Sandra |url = http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111998,00.html |title = Time Magazine: 100 Most Influential People in the World: Cecile Richards |publisher =[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date = April 18, 2012 |access-date = April 24, 2013 |archive-date = August 14, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130814025516/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111998,00.html |url-status = dead }}</ref>

Richards' tenure as president of the organization ended on April 30, 2018. Current Planned Parenthood board member [[Joe Solmonese]] was appointed as transition chair to temporarily oversee the day-to-day operations of Planned Parenthood after Richards' departure.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-president-last-day.html |title = The Internet Celebrates Planned Parenthood President on Her Last Day |date = April 30, 2018 |work = [[New York (magazine)|The Cut]] |last = Arnold |first = Amanda |access-date = September 13, 2018 |archive-date = October 1, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181001050704/https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/cecile-richards-planned-parenthood-president-last-day.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

[[File:Leana Wen 2017 04 14.jpg|thumb|right|[[Leana Wen]] in April 2017]]

On September 12, 2018, the organization announced that [[Leana Wen]] would take over as president, effective November 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647128716/planned-parenthood-chooses-baltimores-health-commissioner-as-its-next-president |title = Planned Parenthood Chooses Baltimore's Health Commissioner As Its Next President |last = Domonoske |first = Camila |date = September 12, 2018 |work =[[NPR]] |access-date = September 13, 2018 |language = en |archive-date = September 13, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180913012541/https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647128716/planned-parenthood-chooses-baltimores-health-commissioner-as-its-next-president |url-status = live }}</ref> Wen was removed as president of Planned Parenthood by the organization's board of directors on July 16, 2019. [[Alexis McGill Johnson]], a board member and former chairwoman, became the organization's acting president.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Goldmacher |first1 = Shane |title = Planned Parenthood Removes Leana Wen as President |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/planned-parenthood-leana-wen.html |access-date = 16 July 2019 |work = [[The New York Times]] |date = July 16, 2019 |archive-date = July 16, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190716204634/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/planned-parenthood-leana-wen.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

==== Unionization campaign ====
Since 2017, frontline Planned Parenthood staff have been publicly engaged in unionization campaigns at many Planned Parenthood locations. Workers have criticized the organization for its low salaries, poor working conditions and a disconnect between leadership and rank and file workers. Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains challenged the results of its union election at the [[National Labor Relations Board]] and hired [[Fisher Phillips]] lawfirm to run an anti-union campaign, before eventually agreeing to a contract in 2018. Planned Parenthood North Central States disciplined its union's entire bargaining team<ref>{{cite web |last=Nesterak |first=Max |date=31 March 2023 |title=Unionizing Planned Parenthood |url=https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/31/planned-parenthood-affiliate-fires-two-union-leaders-disciplines-entire-bargaining-team/ |website=Minnesota Reformer |access-date=26 March 2025}}</ref> and fired a union organizer after she accused a coworker of assault. The regional affiliate agreed to a contract in 2023 after 37 bargaining sessions over the course of 16 months.<ref>{{cite web |last=Andrews |first=Becca |date=25 March 2024 |title=Unionizing Planned Parenthood |url=https://capitalandmain.com/unionizing-planned-parenthood |website=Capital and Main |access-date=26 March 2025}}</ref>

==== Data breaches ====

In October 2021, a [[hacker]] gained access to the data network of the Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood and obtained the personal information of approximately 400,000 patients. On December 1, 2021, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that the breach was a [[ransomware]] attack. The organization did not say if they paid the ransom or if the perpetrators made any demands. There was no indication as to who was responsible for the hack. The Metropolitan Washington branch of Planned Parenthood was also hacked in 2020 with donor and patient information compromised, including dates of birth, [[Social Security number|social security numbers]], financial information, and medical data.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Schaffer |first1 = Aaron |last2 = Marks |first2 = Joseph |last3 = Knowles |first3 = Hannah |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/01/los-angeles-planned-parenthood-hack/ |title = Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says hack breached about 400,000 patients' information |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |date = 2021-12-01 |accessdate = 2021-12-02 |archive-date = December 2, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211202204142/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/01/los-angeles-planned-parenthood-hack/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

=== Margaret Sanger Awards ===
{{Main|Margaret Sanger Awards}}

In 1966, PPFA began awarding the Margaret Sanger Award annually to honor, in their words, "individuals of distinction in recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights." In the first year, it was awarded to four men: Carl&nbsp;G. Hartman, [[William Henry Draper&nbsp;Jr.]], [[Lyndon B.&nbsp;Johnson]], and [[Martin Luther King&nbsp;Jr.]]<ref name="sanger prize">{{cite web |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MtlaAAAAIBAJ&pg=3386%2C3977509 |title = Author Wins Sanger Prize |date = April 27, 1966 |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date = September 4, 2020 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923052130/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MtlaAAAAIBAJ&pg=3386%2C3977509 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="population planner">{{cite news |url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/661994742.html?dids=661994742:661994742&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+28,+1971&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Population+Planner+Honored&pqatl=google |title = Population Planner Honored |date = November 28, 1971 |work =[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date = July 7, 2017 |archive-date = November 7, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121107203123/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/661994742.html?dids=661994742:661994742&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+28,+1971&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Population+Planner+Honored&pqatl=google |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="LBJ birth policy">{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ViwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2359%2C1440141 |title = LBJ Birth Policy Cited |agency =[[Associated Press]] |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date = October 11, 1966 |access-date = September 4, 2020 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923052609/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ViwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2359%2C1440141 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="mrs king">{{cite web |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R9MmAAAAIBAJ&pg=4042%2C2100494 |title = Mrs. King receives award for husband |date = May 21, 1966 |work = The Afro American |access-date = September 4, 2020 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923051652/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R9MmAAAAIBAJ&pg=4042%2C2100494 |url-status = live }}</ref> Later recipients have included [[John&nbsp;D. Rockefeller&nbsp;III]], [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Jane Fonda]], [[Hillary Clinton]], and [[Ted Turner]].<ref name="rockefeller 3d">{{cite news |title = Rockefeller 3d Wins Sanger Award |url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0615F93D5B117B93CBA9178BD95F438685F9 |access-date = February 14, 2011 |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url-access = subscription |date = October 9, 1967 |archive-date = November 6, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121106055029/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0615F93D5B117B93CBA9178BD95F438685F9 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="fondabusfile">"REMINDER/Planned Parenthood Salutes Visionary Leaders in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom." ''Business Wire'' March 29, 2003: 5006. ''General OneFile.'' Web. February 11, 2011.</ref><ref name="clinton defends">{{cite news |last1 = Miller |first1 = S.A. |title = Hillary Clinton defends Planned Parenthood in wake of undercover videos |url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/23/hillary-clinton-defends-planned-parenthood-wake-un/?page=all |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work = Washington Times |date = July 23, 2015 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208104130/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/23/hillary-clinton-defends-planned-parenthood-wake-un/?page=all |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Services ==

The services provided by PPFA affiliates vary by location, with just over half of all Planned Parenthood affiliates in the U.S. performing abortions.<ref name="is a symbol">{{cite news |last1 = Hesse |first1 = Monica |title = Planned Parenthood is a symbol. This is the reality of one Ohio clinic. |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/planned-parenthood-is-a-symbol-this-is-the-reality-of-one-ohio-clinic/2015/09/15/b97c465e-4774-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html |access-date = November 5, 2015 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |date = September 15, 2015 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208120015/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/planned-parenthood-is-a-symbol-this-is-the-reality-of-one-ohio-clinic/2015/09/15/b97c465e-4774-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Services provided by PPFA include [[birth control]] and [[long-acting reversible contraception]];<ref name="growing demand">{{cite web |url = http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/07/planned_parenthoods_springfield_clinic_sees_growing_demand_for_long_acting_contraception.html |title = Planned Parenthood's Springfield clinic sees growing demand for long acting contraception |work = MassLive |date = July 9, 2015 |access-date = August 2, 2015 |archive-date = July 31, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150731183818/http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/07/planned_parenthoods_springfield_clinic_sees_growing_demand_for_long_acting_contraception.html |url-status = live }}</ref> [[emergency contraception]]; [[clinical breast examination]]s; [[cervical cancer]] [[Cervical screening|screening]]; [[pregnancy test]]ing and [[pregnancy options counseling]]; [[prenatal care]]; testing and treatment for [[sexually transmitted infection]]s; [[sex education]]; [[Vasectomy|vasectomies]]; [[LGBT]] services; and [[abortion]].<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |last1 = Goldschmidt |first1 = Debra |last2 = Strickland |first2 = Ashley |title = Planned Parenthood: Fast facts and revealing numbers |url = http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/health/planned-parenthood-by-the-numbers/ |access-date = November 5, 2015 |publisher =[[CNN]]|date = August 4, 2015 |archive-date = November 4, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151104071558/http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/health/planned-parenthood-by-the-numbers |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="gay PPD">{{cite news |last1 = Bolcer |first1 = Julie |title = The Gay Planned Parenthood Debate |url = http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/04/27/planned-parenthood-billboards-spark-debate |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work = The Advocate |date = April 27, 2011 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208141926/http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/04/27/planned-parenthood-billboards-spark-debate |url-status = live }}</ref> Contrary to the assumption of some, Planned Parenthood conducts cancer screenings but does not provide [[Mammography|mammograms]],<ref>{{cite news |last = Hee |first = Michelle Ye |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/02/the-repeated-misleading-claim-that-planned-parenthood-provides-mammograms/ |title = The repeated, misleading claim that Planned Parenthood 'provides' mammograms |newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] |date = October 2, 2015 |access-date = April 13, 2017 |archive-date = May 4, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170504163409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/02/the-repeated-misleading-claim-that-planned-parenthood-provides-mammograms/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last = Robertson |first = Lori |date = 2012-10-18 |title = Planned Parenthood and Mammograms |url = https://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/planned-parenthood-and-mammograms/ |access-date = 2022-11-04 |website = FactCheck.org |language = en-US |archive-date = November 4, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221104220005/https://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/planned-parenthood-and-mammograms/ |url-status = live }}</ref> although Planned Parenthood physicians do refer their patients to other outside clinics where they can get mammograms.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last = Carroll |first = Lauren |date = 2015-08-03 |title = 97% of Planned Parenthood's work is mammograms, preventive care, O'Malley says |url = https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/03/martin-omalley/97-planned-parenthoods-work-mammograms-preventive-/ |access-date = 2022-11-04 |website =[[PolitiFact]] |language = en-US |archive-date = November 4, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221104215715/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/03/martin-omalley/97-planned-parenthoods-work-mammograms-preventive-/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2013, PPFA reported seeing 2.7{{nbsp}}million patients in 4.6{{nbsp}}million clinical visits.<ref name="PPFA Annual 2014">{{cite web |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/2114/5089/0863/2014-2015_PPFA_Annual_Report_.pdf |title = 2014–2015 Annual Report |work = Planned Parenthood |page = 30 |access-date = March 11, 2016 |archive-date = February 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160220211916/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/2114/5089/0863/2014-2015_PPFA_Annual_Report_.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> Roughly 16 percent of its clients are teenagers.<ref name="PP ataglance" /><ref name="childrens rights">{{cite journal |last = Richards |first = Thomas |title = Spotlight on: Planned Parenthood |journal = Children's Legal Rights Journal |year = 2007 |volume = 27 |issue = 3 |page = 57 |url = http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/clrj27&div=25&id=&page= |access-date = February 14, 2011 |archive-date = May 2, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150502215040/http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals%2Fclrj27&div=25&id=&page= |url-status = live }}</ref> According to PPFA, in 2014 the organization provided 3.6{{nbsp}}million contraceptive services, 4.5{{nbsp}}million sexually transmitted infection services, about one{{nbsp}}million cancer related services, over one{{nbsp}}million pregnancy tests and prenatal services, over 324,000 abortion services,<ref name="WSJ no more donations">{{cite news |last1 = Armour |first1 = Stephanie |title = Planned Parenthood Stops Taking Reimbursements for Fetal Tissue |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/planned-parenthood-stops-taking-reimbursements-for-fetal-tissue-1444744800 |access-date = October 13, 2015 |work =[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date = October 13, 2015 |archive-date = October 14, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151014163008/http://www.wsj.com/articles/planned-parenthood-stops-taking-reimbursements-for-fetal-tissue-1444744800 |url-status = live }}</ref> and over 100,000 other services, for a total of 9.5{{nbsp}}million discrete services.<ref name="PPFA Annual 2014" /> PPFA is well known for providing services to [[Minority group|minorities]] and to poor people;<ref name="pastors">{{cite news |url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/pastors-accuse-planned-parenthood-for-genocide-on-blacks |title = Pastors Accuse Planned Parenthood for 'Genocide' on Blacks |first = Kelley |last = Beaucar Vlahos |date = April 24, 2008 |access-date = July 30, 2015 |publisher =[[Fox News]] |archive-date = July 23, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150723103901/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/04/24/pastors-accuse-planned-parenthood-for-genocide-on-blacks.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="eckholm" /> according to PPFA, approximately four out of five of their clients have incomes at or below 150{{nbsp}}percent of the [[federal poverty level]].<ref name="cnn" /><ref name="louisiana lays bare" /> Services for [[men's health]] include STI testing and treatment, vasectomy procedures, and [[erectile dysfunction]] services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/men|title=Men's Sexual Health {{!}} Understanding Male Sexual Health|website=www.plannedparenthood.org|language=en|access-date=March 5, 2017|archive-date=March 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312193452/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/men|url-status=live}}</ref> Education is available regarding male birth control and lowering the risk of sexually transmitted infections.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/men/birth-control-men|title=Birth Control for Men {{!}} How Can Men Prevent Pregnancy?|website=www.plannedparenthood.org|language=en|access-date=March 5, 2017|archive-date=March 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306033407/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/men/birth-control-men|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2015, Planned Parenthood launched the [[Planned Parenthood Direct]] app, which{{snd}}as of 2025{{snd}}  focuses on delivering [[birth control pill]]s,  providing care for [[urinary tract infection]]s (UTIs), and (in some states) delivering [[medication abortion]] pills directly to patients.<ref name=BI2019>{{cite news 
|author= Clarrie Feinstein
|date= Sep 4, 2019
|title= Planned Parenthood is expanding its birth control app to all 50 states in the wake of Trump's massive funding cut
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|title= Planned Parenthood offers abortion pills via app to expand access in Illinois 
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|author=  Aditi Pai
|date= June 23, 2015
|title= Planned Parenthood launches app so Californians can order STD tests
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Planned Parenthood won the 2020 Webby Award for Machine Learning and Bots for their Sex Education chatbot.<ref name="Kastrenakes">{{cite web |last1 = Kastrenakes |first1 = Jacob |title = Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards |url = https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21263445/2020-webby-awards-winners-lil-nas-x-nasa-jon-krasinski |website = [[The Verge]] |access-date = 22 May 2020 |language = en |date = 20 May 2020 |archive-date = May 21, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200521205535/https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21263445/2020-webby-awards-winners-lil-nas-x-nasa-jon-krasinski |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Facilities ==

[[File:Planned Parenthood in Houston, Texas 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Location in [[Houston]], Texas]]

PPFA has two national offices in the United States: one in [[Washington,&nbsp;D.C.]], and one in [[New York City]]. It has three international offices, including a hub office in [[London|London, England]]. It has 68 medical and related affiliates and 101 other affiliates including 34 political action committees.<ref name="PPFA audited financial">{{cite web |title = Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Inc.) and Related Entities, Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, Audited, June 30, 2013 and 2014 |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/5014/1936/7155/PPFA_Audited_FS_FY2014.PDF |website = www.plannedparenthood.org |access-date = October 7, 2015 |archive-date = September 5, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150905144900/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/5014/1936/7155/PPFA_Audited_FS_FY2014.PDF |url-status = live }}</ref> These affiliates together operate more than 700 health centers in all 50 states in the U.S. plus the [[District of Columbia]].<ref name="PP ataglance">{{cite web |title = Planned Parenthood At a Glance |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/planned-parenthood-at-a-glance |website = www.plannedparenthood.org |access-date = October 7, 2015 |archive-date = October 9, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151009004755/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/planned-parenthood-at-a-glance |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="njclinic#">{{cite news |last = Livio |first = Susan |title = Planned Parenthood may double the number of N.J. abortion clinics while expanding nationwide |url = http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/planned_parenthood_to_double_t.html |access-date = February 14, 2011 |newspaper = [[NJ.com]] |date = January 16, 2011 |archive-date = February 23, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110223071829/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/planned_parenthood_to_double_t.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="clergy alliances">{{cite book |last = Davis |first = Tom |title = Sacred work: Planned Parenthood and its clergy alliances |year = 2005 |publisher = [[Rutgers University Press]] |isbn = 0-8135-3493-3 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kAJN-OcsZhAC |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = April 30, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160430111034/https://books.google.com/books?id=kAJN-OcsZhAC |url-status = live }}</ref> PPFA owns about {{US$|54|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million in property, including real estate. In addition, PPFA spends a little over {{US$|1|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million per year for rented space.<ref name="PPFA audited financial" /> The largest facility, a {{US$|26|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million, {{convert|78000|sqft|m2|adj=on|abbr=off|sp=us}} structure, was completed in [[Houston]], [[Texas]], in May 2010.<ref name="Park">[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7015381.html Planned Parenthood debuts new building] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522123848/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7015381.html |date=May 22, 2010}} ''Houston Chronicle'' May 20, 2010, 10:27 PM retrieved June 28, 2010</ref>

== Worldwide availability ==

PPFA's international outreach and other activities are performed by Planned Parenthood Global, a division of PPFA,<ref name="PPFA audited financial" /><ref name="PPG disc">{{citation |url = https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/get-involved/global-reproductive-health-policy/ |title = Planned Parenthood Global |work = Planned Parenthood |date = 2016 |access-date = February 18, 2016 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160119155715/http://plannedparenthoodaction.org/get-involved/global-reproductive-health-policy/ |archive-date = January 19, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> and by the [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]] (IPPF) which now consists of more than 149 Member Associations working in more than 189 countries.<ref name="IPPF">{{cite web |url = http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-face-of-zika-virus-women-ponder-abortion-childlessness/ |title = In face of Zika virus, women ponder abortion, childlessness |work =[[CBS News]] |date = January 28, 2016 |access-date = February 18, 2016 |archive-date = February 25, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160225142243/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-face-of-zika-virus-women-ponder-abortion-childlessness/ |url-status = live }}</ref> The IPPF is further associated with International Planned Parenthood Federation affiliates in the [[Caribbean]] and the [[Americas]],<ref name="world of possibilities">{{cite web |url = http://www.ippfwhr.org |title = International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region – From choice, a world of possibilities |work = ippfwhr.org |access-date = February 23, 2016 |archive-date = September 26, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170926151610/https://www.ippfwhr.org/ |url-status = live }}</ref> and IPPF European Network,<ref name="ippf 2016">{{cite web |url = http://www.ippfen.org/ |title = IPPF |work = ippfen.org |access-date = February 23, 2016 |archive-date = February 18, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160218220902/http://www.ippfen.org/ |url-status = live }}</ref> as well as other organizations like [[Family Planning Queensland]], Pro Familia (Germany) <small>([[:de:Pro Familia (Deutschland)|''de'']])</small> and ''mouvement français pour le planning familial'' (French Movement for Family Planning) <small>([[:fr:Mouvement français pour le planning familial|''fr'']])</small>. Offices are located in New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; Miami, FL; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Abuja, Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya. The organization's focus countries are [[Guatemala]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], [[Senegal]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Nigeria]], [[Sudan]], [[South Sudan]], [[Uganda]], [[Ethiopia]], and [[Kenya]].<ref name="PPFA Global brochure">{{cite web |title = Planned Parenthood Brochure, Health Has No Borders |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/2614/2360/2051/PPGlobal_042114_Brochure_vF_rev3_4.pdf |website = www.plannedparenthood.org |access-date = October 7, 2015 |archive-date = November 28, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151128211931/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/2614/2360/2051/PPGlobal_042114_Brochure_vF_rev3_4.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> The [[Bloomberg Philanthropies]] donated {{US$|50|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million for Planned Parenthood Global's reproductive health and family planning efforts in [[Tanzania]], Nicaragua, [[Burkina Faso]], Senegal and Uganda.<ref name="bush role">{{cite web |url = http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-role-in-michael-bloomberg-charity-planned-parenthood-121168 |title = Bush role in Bloomberg charity gets attention |author = Rachana Pradhan |website = [[Politico]] |date = August 10, 2015 |access-date = February 8, 2016 |archive-date = March 2, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160302013546/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-role-in-michael-bloomberg-charity-planned-parenthood-121168 |url-status = live }}</ref> Among specific countries and territories serviced by Planned Parenthood Global's reproductive planning outreach are [[Brazil]], [[Colombia]], [[El Salvador]], [[French Guiana]], Guatemala, [[Haiti]], [[Honduras]], [[Martinique]], [[Mexico]], [[Panama]], [[Paraguay]], Peru, [[Suriname]], [[Venezuela]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Barbados]], [[Bolivia]], Ecuador, [[Guadeloupe]], [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]], [[Guyana]], [[Cape Verde]] and [[Samoa]].<ref name="PPG disc" /><ref name="IPPF" />

== Funding ==

Planned Parenthood has received federal funding since 1970, when President [[Richard Nixon]] signed into law the [[Family Planning Services and Population Research Act]], amending the [[Public Health Service Act]]. [[Title X]] of that law provides funding for family planning services, including contraception and family planning information. The law had support from both [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]].<ref name="love affair">{{cite news |last1 = Miller |first1 = Patricia |title = The secret Republican love affair with Planned Parenthood: A history |url = http://www.salon.com/2015/08/18/the_secret_republican_love_affair_with_planned_parenthood_a_history/ |access-date = November 4, 2015 |work =[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date = August 18, 2015 |archive-date = October 22, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151022062525/http://www.salon.com/2015/08/18/the_secret_republican_love_affair_with_planned_parenthood_a_history/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Nixon described Title X funding as based on the premise that "no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition."<ref name="halloran">{{Cite news |publisher = [[NPR]] |title = Abortion Foes Target Family Planning Program |first = Liz |last = Halloran |date = March 21, 2011 |url = https://www.npr.org/2011/03/21/134662664/abortion-foes-target-family-planning-program |access-date = April 2, 2018 |archive-date = May 28, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200528122324/https://www.npr.org/2011/03/22/134662664/abortion-foes-target-family-planning-program |url-status = live }}</ref>

Donors to Planned Parenthood have included the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], the [[Buffett Foundation]], the [[Ford Foundation]], the [[Ted Turner Foundation|Turner Foundation]], the [[Dorothy Cullman|Cullmans]], and others.<ref name="bwdonations">{{cite news |url = http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1999/b3652114.arc.htm |title = The Art of Giving—When Your Resources Are Vast |date = October 25, 1999 |work = [[Businessweek]] |access-date = February 10, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110413033532/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1999/b3652114.arc.htm |archive-date = April 13, 2011 |df = mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.forward.com/articles/4506/ |title = Pushing Foundations To Give Everything They Have |last = Mostel |first = Raphael |date = November 12, 2004 |newspaper = [[The Forward|The Daily Jewish Forward]] |access-date = February 10, 2011 |archive-date = July 11, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711021946/http://www.forward.com/articles/4506/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="with us always">{{cite book |title = With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare |last2 = Parker |first2 = Charles H. |date = April 2, 1998 |publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn = 978-1-4616-2221-5 |page = 227 |last1 = Critchlow |first1 = Donald T. }}</ref><ref name="turner funding">{{cite news |url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/60307222.html?dids=60307222:60307222&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+14,+2000&author=Paul+Leavitt;+Jim+Drinkard&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Bush+debate+material+may+have+landed+in+Gore+camp&pqatl=google |title = Bush debate material may have landed in Gore camp |last = Leavitt |first = Paul |date = September 14, 2000 |newspaper = [[USA Today]] |access-date = February 12, 2011 |author2 = Drinkard, Jim |archive-date = June 28, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628223120/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/60307222.html?dids=60307222:60307222&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+14,+2000&author=Paul+Leavitt;+Jim+Drinkard&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Bush+debate+material+may+have+landed+in+Gore+camp&pqatl=google |url-status = dead }}</ref> The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's contributions to the organization have been specifically marked to avoid funding abortions.<ref name="bwdonations" /> Some donors, such as the Buffett Foundation, have supported reproductive health that can include abortion services.<ref name="bwdonations" /> [[Anti-abortion|Anti-abortion groups]] have advocated the boycott of donors to Planned Parenthood.<ref name="urges boycott">{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/08/us/anti-abortion-group-urges-boycott-of-planned-parenthood-donors.html |title = Anti-Abortion Group Urges Boycott of Planned Parenthood Donors |last = Levin |first = Tamar |date = August 8, 1990 |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |access-date = February 7, 2011 |archive-date = May 20, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130520204230/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/08/us/anti-abortion-group-urges-boycott-of-planned-parenthood-donors.html?pagewanted=all |url-status = live }}</ref> Corporate donors include [[CREDO Mobile]].<ref name="not deterring">{{cite news |url = http://fortune.com/2015/07/31/planned-parenthood-videos-corporate-donors/ |title = Planned Parenthood: Undercover videos not deterring corporate donors |date = July 31, 2015 |work =[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |last1 = Hamburg Coplan |first1 = Jill |access-date = November 4, 2015 |archive-date = November 5, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151105154630/http://fortune.com/2015/07/31/planned-parenthood-videos-corporate-donors/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, total revenue was {{US$|1.3|long=no}}{{nbsp}}billion: non-government health services revenue was {{US$|305|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million, government revenue (such as Medicaid reimbursements) was {{US$|528|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million, private contributions totaled {{US$|392|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million, and {{US$|78|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million came from other operating revenue.<ref name="Annual 2014">{{cite web |title = PPFA Annual Report 2013–2014 |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/6714/1996/2641/2013-2014_Annual_Report_FINAL_WEB_VERSION.pdf |website = www.plannedparenthood.org |access-date = October 8, 2015 |archive-date = September 10, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150910134004/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/6714/1996/2641/2013-2014_Annual_Report_FINAL_WEB_VERSION.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> According to Planned Parenthood, 59 percent of the group's revenue is put towards the provision of health services, while non-medical services such as sex education and public policy work make up another 15 percent; management expenses, fundraising, and international family planning programs account for about 16 percent, and 10 percent of the revenue in 2013–2014 was not spent.<ref name="Annual 2014" />

Planned Parenthood receives over a third of its money in government grants and contracts (about {{US$|528|long=no}}{{nbsp}}million in 2014).<ref name="thorn">{{cite news |url = https://www.npr.org/2011/04/13/135354952/planned-parenthood-makes-abortion-foes-see-red |access-date = April 13, 2011 |title = Planned Parenthood: A Thorn In Abortion Foes' Sides |date = April 13, 2011 |first = Julie |last = Rovner |work = Morning Edition |publisher =[[NPR]] |archive-date = April 16, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110416074912/http://www.npr.org/2011/04/13/135354952/planned-parenthood-makes-abortion-foes-see-red |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Annual 2014" /> By law ([[Hyde Amendment]]), federal funding cannot be allocated for abortions (except in rare cases),<ref name="politico" /> but some opponents of abortion have argued that allocating money to Planned Parenthood for the provision of other medical services allows other funds to be reallocated for abortions.<ref name="eckholm" />

A coalition of national and local anti-abortion groups have lobbied federal and state governments to stop funding Planned Parenthood. As a result, federal and state legislators have proposed legislation to reduce funding levels.<ref name="politico">{{cite news |url = http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48651.html |title = Groups unite vs. Planned Parenthood |work = [[Politico (newspaper)|Politico]] |date = February 2, 2011 |access-date = February 11, 2011 |archive-date = February 5, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110205075350/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48651.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="latest proposal">{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/budget-impasse-puts-focus-on-planned-parenthood-womens-health/2011/04/08/AFgm6a2C_story.html |newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] |title = GOP's latest proposal for Planned Parenthood funding |first1 = Sandhya |last1 = Somashekhar |first2 = Philip |last2 = Rucker |date = April 8, 2011 |access-date = September 19, 2011 |archive-date = January 7, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120107234202/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/budget-impasse-puts-focus-on-planned-parenthood-womens-health/2011/04/08/AFgm6a2C_story.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Eight states{{nsmdns}}Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana,  New Hampshire, Ohio, and Utah{{nsmdns}}have enacted such proposals.{{refn|<ref name="eckholm">{{Cite news |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/us/politics/18parenthood.html |first = Erik |last = Eckholm |date = February 17, 2011 |title = Planned Parenthood Financing Is Caught in Budget Feud |access-date = February 12, 2017 |archive-date = March 23, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180323122919/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/us/politics/18parenthood.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="block funds">{{Cite news |newspaper = The Arizona Republic |url = http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/18/20110218house-blocks-planned-parenthood-money18-ON.html |first = Maureen |last = Groppe |date = February 1, 2011 |title = House votes to block funds to Planned Parenthood |access-date = February 24, 2011 |archive-date = July 15, 2016 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20160715155630/http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/18/20110218house-blocks-planned-parenthood-money18-ON.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher = [[Fox News Channel]] |url = https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-allows-indiana-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding/ |title = Judge Allows Indiana to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding |date = May 11, 2011 |access-date = May 11, 2011 |archive-date = May 14, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514144844/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/11/judge-expected-rule-wednesday-indiana-planned-parenthood-cuts/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="NashuaTelegraph">{{cite news |url = http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsstatenewengland/932503-227/family-planning-contracts-okd.html |title = Family planning contracts OK'd |first = Kevin |last = Landrigan |newspaper = [[The Telegraph (Nashua)|Nashua Telegraph]] |date = September 14, 2011 |access-date = September 20, 2011 |archive-date = July 25, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150725152228/http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsstatenewengland/932503-227/family-planning-contracts-okd.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="KS PP">{{cite news |work = Businessweek |last = Hegeman |first = Roxana |title = Kansas to comply with Planned Parenthood order |agency =[[Associated Press]] |date = August 31, 2011 |url = http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PFA6903.htm |access-date = September 20, 2011 |archive-date = November 2, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121102123828/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PFA6903.htm |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/02/bill_defunding_planned_parenth_1.html |title = Bill defunding Planned Parenthood clears Ohio House, heads to Gov. John Kasich |work = cleveland.com |date = February 11, 2016 |access-date = February 12, 2016 |archive-date = February 11, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160211090825/http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/02/bill_defunding_planned_parenth_1.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="alabama">{{cite web |url = https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/08/07/robert-j-bentley-governor-of-alabama-says-he-is-cutting-off-medicaid-payment-to-planned-parenthood |title = Robert J. Bentley, Governor of Alabama, Says He Is Cutting Off Medicaid Payment to Planned Parenthood – US News |work =[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date = February 12, 2016 |archive-date = March 5, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305155219/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/08/07/robert-j-bentley-governor-of-alabama-says-he-is-cutting-off-medicaid-payment-to-planned-parenthood |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="kansas">{{cite news |url = http://www.kshb.com/news/state/kansas/kansas-loses-thousands-in-federal-funding-after-voting-to-defund-planned-parenthood |title = Kansas loses thousands in federal funding after voting to defund Planned Parenthood |agency =[[Associated Press]] |work = KSHB |access-date = February 12, 2016 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160216025253/http://www.kshb.com/news/state/kansas/kansas-loses-thousands-in-federal-funding-after-voting-to-defund-planned-parenthood |archive-date = February 16, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="utah">{{cite web |url = http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428975/utah-planned-parenthood-defunding-fight |title = Utah Wins Planned Parenthood Defunding Fight |author = William C. Duncan |date = December 24, 2015 |work = National Review Online |access-date = February 12, 2016 |archive-date = December 28, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151228091701/http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428975/utah-planned-parenthood-defunding-fight |url-status = live }}</ref>}} In some cases, the courts have overturned such actions, citing conflict with federal or state laws; in others the federal executive branch has provided funding in lieu of the states.<ref name="NashuaTelegraph" /><ref name="KS PP" /><ref name="indiana-nyt">{{cite news |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |first = Robert |last = Pear |title = Indiana Law to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding Is Blocked |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/us/25indiana.html |date = June 24, 2011 |access-date = September 19, 2011 |archive-date = August 29, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110829092341/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/us/25indiana.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In some states, Planned Parenthood was completely or partially defunded.<ref name="tennessee defunding">{{cite news |last1 = Sheppard |first1 = Kate |title = A Tennessee Case Study in Defunding Planned Parenthood |url = https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/tennessee-case-study-defunding-planned-parenthood |access-date = November 5, 2015 |publisher =[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date = September 5, 2012 |archive-date = November 10, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151110225434/http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/tennessee-case-study-defunding-planned-parenthood |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="wisconsin">{{cite news |title = Wisconsin to defund Planned Parenthood, joins Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina |date = June 22, 2011 |first = Christine |last = Roberts |newspaper =[[New York Daily News]] |access-date = September 20, 2011 |url = http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-06-22/news/29710723_1_budget-cuts-abortion-provider-health-care |archive-date = July 18, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718223310/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-06-22/news/29710723_1_budget-cuts-abortion-provider-health-care |url-status = dead }}</ref>

In August 2015, Louisiana Governor [[Bobby Jindal]] attempted to end Louisiana's contract with Planned Parenthood to treat [[Medicaid]] patients at a time when there was an epidemic of sexually transmitted infections in Louisiana.<ref name="louisiana lays bare">{{cite news |last1 = Calmes |first1 = Jackie |title = Louisiana Lays Bare Difficulty in Push to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/politics/louisiana-lays-bare-difficulty-in-push-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding.html |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work =[[The New York Times]] |date = September 1, 2015 |archive-date = October 31, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151031102349/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/politics/louisiana-lays-bare-difficulty-in-push-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding.html?_r=0 |url-status = live }}</ref> Planned Parenthood and three patients sued the state of Louisiana, with the [[United States Department of Justice]] siding with Planned Parenthood.<ref name="sides with">{{cite news |last1 = DeSlatte |first1 = Melinda |title = Justice Department sides with Planned Parenthood in lawsuit |url = http://bigstory.ap.org/article/778f9f0cf275491aab30928e81fc56cb/justice-department-sides-planned-parenthood-lawsuit |access-date = November 4, 2015 |agency =[[Associated Press]] |date = September 1, 2015 |archive-date = November 10, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151110114011/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/778f9f0cf275491aab30928e81fc56cb/justice-department-sides-planned-parenthood-lawsuit |url-status = live }}</ref>

On February 2, 2016, the U.S. House failed to override President Obama's veto of {{USBill|114|hr|3762}} (Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015) which would have prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal Medicaid funds for one year.<ref name="ovveride 3762">{{cite web |author = <!-- none listed --> |date = February 2, 2016 |title = House vote to override President's veto of H.R. 3762 |location = Lakeville, Minnesota |publisher = healthreformvotes.org |url = https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/roll-call-votes/h53-114.2016 |access-date = February 26, 2016 |archive-date = March 3, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222543/https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/roll-call-votes/h53-114.2016 |url-status = live }}</ref>

Late in 2016, the Obama administration issued a rule effective in January 2017 banning U.S. states from withholding federal family-planning funds from health clinics that give abortions, including Planned Parenthood affiliates; this rule mandates that local and state governments give federal funds for services related to sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy care, fertility, contraception, and breast and cervical cancer screening to qualified health providers whether or not they give abortions.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us/politics/obama-administration-planned-parenthood.html |title = Obama Bars States From Denying Federal Money to Planned Parenthood |newspaper =[[The New York Times]] |date = December 14, 2016 |access-date = May 27, 2018 |archive-date = April 11, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411053234/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us/politics/obama-administration-planned-parenthood.html |url-status = live |last1 = Calmes |first1 = Jackie }}</ref> However, this rule was blocked by a federal judge the day before it would have taken effect.<ref>{{cite web |last = Gorman |first = Steve |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14L0OP |title = U.S. judge blocks transgender, abortion-related Obamacare protections |publisher =[[Reuters]] |date = December 31, 2016 |access-date = January 2, 2017 |archive-date = February 8, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190208155627/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14L0OP |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2017, it was overturned by new legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-13/trump-moves-against-planned-parenthood-by-signing-gop-measure |title = Trump Moves Against Planned Parenthood by Signing GOP Bill |publisher =[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]] |date = 2017 |access-date = April 13, 2017 |archive-date = April 14, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170414162413/https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-13/trump-moves-against-planned-parenthood-by-signing-gop-measure |url-status = live }}</ref>

The proposed [[American Health Care Act]] ({{USBill|115|hr|1628}}), announced by Congressional Republicans in March 2017, would have made Planned Parenthood "ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements or federal family planning grants."<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Golstein |first1 = Amy |last2 = DeBonis |first2 = Mike |last3 = Snell |first3 = Kelsey |title = House Republicans release long-awaited plan to repeal and replace Obamacare |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/new-details-emerge-on-gop-plans-to-repeal-and-replace-obamacare/2017/03/06/04751e3e-028f-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html |access-date = March 7, 2017 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |archive-date = April 11, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411160036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/new-details-emerge-on-gop-plans-to-repeal-and-replace-obamacare/2017/03/06/04751e3e-028f-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

On August 19, 2019, Planned Parenthood voluntarily withdrew from Title X funding due to a regulatory gag order stating that medical institutions that receive Title X funding cannot refer patients for abortions.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Belluck |first1 = Pam |title = Planned Parenthood Refuses Federal Funds Over Abortion Restrictions |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/health/planned-parenthood-title-x.html |access-date = 21 August 2019 |work =[[The New York Times]] |date = 19 August 2019 |archive-date = August 21, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190821174602/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/health/planned-parenthood-title-x.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Political advocacy ==

[[File:Kamala Harris with Planned Parenthood.jpg|thumb|Planned Parenthood activists meeting with then-Senator [[Kamala Harris]] in 2017]]

Planned Parenthood is an advocate for the legal and political protection of [[reproductive rights]].<ref name="debate abortion">{{cite news |last = Lawrence |first = Jason |title = Legislators, Planned Parenthood debate abortion |url = http://galvestondailynews.com/story/210402 |access-date = February 14, 2011 |newspaper = [[The Galveston County Daily News]] |date = February 9, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110512151032/http://galvestondailynews.com/story/210402 |archive-date = May 12, 2011 }}</ref> This advocacy includes helping to sponsor abortion rights and [[women's rights]] events.<ref name="on the march">Planned Parenthood was one of the co-sponsors of the [[March for Women's Lives]] held on April 25, 2004. {{Cite news |title = Abortion activists on the march |date = April 26, 2004 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3657527.stm |access-date = July 4, 2009 |agency = [[BBC]] |work = [[BBC News]] |archive-date = July 18, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055619/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3657527.stm |url-status = live }}</ref> The Federation opposes restrictions on women's reproductive health services, including parental consent laws for minors.<ref>Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York, [http://www.ppany.org/issues Issues & Positions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314112806/http://www.ppany.org/issues |date=March 14, 2017 }}. Access date June 24, 2016. Quote: "While Planned Parenthood supports and promotes communication between parents and their teens, requiring parental notification or consent would reduce the numbers of teens seeking care and put them in danger. We believe it is important for teens to have access to safe health care, even if they can't come to their parents for whatever reason.  PPANY opposes government-mandated parental consent and parental notification requirements."</ref><ref>Including in court, e.g., ''Doe v. Planned Parenthood Association of Utah'' and ''Planned Parenthood Ass'n of Utah v. Matheson''.</ref> To justify this position, Planned Parenthood has cited the case of [[Becky Bell]], who died following an [[illegal abortion]] rather than seek parental consent for a legal one.<ref name="bell">{{cite news |title = Parental consent opposed |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qr9JAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452%2C1544788 |access-date = February 14, 2011 |newspaper = Madison Courier |date = January 23, 1990 |archive-date = July 10, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220710143050/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qr9JAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452,1544788 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="old enough?">Relin, David Oliver. "Old enough to choose?" ''[[Scholastic Update]]'' April 20, 1990: 13+. ''General OneFile.'' Web. February 14, 2011.</ref> Planned Parenthood also takes the position that laws requiring parental notification before an [[Minors and abortion|abortion can be performed on a minor]] are unconstitutional on privacy grounds.<ref name="parent notification">{{cite web |author = Demer, Lisa |url = http://www.adn.com/2010/11/23/1569312/planned-parenthood-doctors-sue.html |title = Suit challenges law requiring parent abortion notification |work = Anchorage Daily News |date = November 24, 2010 |access-date = April 9, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101223135818/http://www.adn.com/2010/11/23/1569312/planned-parenthood-doctors-sue.html |archive-date = December 23, 2010 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>

The organization opposes laws requiring [[Medical ultrasound|ultrasounds]] before abortions, stating that their only purpose is to make abortions more difficult to obtain.<ref name="general onefile">"The Rachel Maddow Show for April 28, 2010, [[MSNBC]]." ''[[The Rachel Maddow Show]]'' April 29, 2010. ''General OneFile.'' Web. February 14, 2011.</ref> Planned Parenthood has also opposed initiatives that require waiting periods before abortions,<ref name="proposition 85">{{cite news |last = Gordon |first = Rachel |title = Campaign 2006; Proposition 85; Parental notification for abortion back on ballot; Voters rejected a similar measure in election last fall.(NEWS). |newspaper = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date = October 9, 2006 |page = A11 }}</ref> and bans on late-term abortions including [[intact dilation and extraction]], which has been illegal in the U.S. since 2003.<ref name="opposes ban legislation">{{cite web |url = http://www.plannedparenthoodnj.org/library/topic/procedures_bans/ppfa_opposes_legislation |title = Planned Parenthood Federation of America Opposes Abortion Ban Legislation |publisher = Planned Parenthood New Jersey |access-date = April 9, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100613050429/http://www.plannedparenthoodnj.org/library/topic/procedures_bans/ppfa_opposes_legislation |archive-date = June 13, 2010 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Planned Parenthood supports the wide availability of [[emergency contraception]] such as the Plan{{nbsp}}B pill.<ref name="free pill">{{cite news |last1 = Nilsson |first1 = Siri |title = Emergency Pill Free on 'Free EC Day' |url = https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2702913&page=1 |access-date = November 5, 2015 |publisher =[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date = December 6, 2006 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208143444/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2702913&page=1 |url-status = live }}</ref> It opposes [[Conscience Clause (medical)|conscience clauses]], which allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense drugs against their beliefs.<ref name="files complaint">{{Citation |last = Strauss |first = Sharon |title = Planned Parenthood files complaint against Nampa pharmacist |newspaper = [[The Idaho Press-Tribune]] |date = January 12, 2011 |url = http://www.idahopress.com/news/article_528847ac-1e9f-11e0-8247-001cc4c03286.html |access-date = February 6, 2011 |archive-date = January 16, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110116055244/http://www.idahopress.com/news/article_528847ac-1e9f-11e0-8247-001cc4c03286.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Planned Parenthood has been critical of hospitals that do not provide access to emergency contraception for [[rape]] victims.<ref name="hospital law">{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yDxHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2860%2C5090711 |title = New law may require N.Y. hospitals to offer contraception to rape victims |date = September 27, 2003 |agency =[[Associated Press]] |work = [[Sun Journal (Lewiston)|Sun Journal]] |page = A10 |access-date = September 4, 2020 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923051946/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yDxHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2860%2C5090711 |url-status = live }}</ref> Citing the need for medically accurate information in [[sex education]], Planned Parenthood opposes [[Abstinence-only sex education|abstinence-only education]] in public schools. Instead, Planned Parenthood is a provider of, and endorses, [[comprehensive sex education]], which includes a discussion of both abstinence and birth control.<ref name="require sex ed">{{Citation |last = Dejka |first = Joe |title = Bill would require sex ed |newspaper = [[Omaha World-Herald]] |date = January 30, 2011 |url = http://www.omaha.com/article/20110130/NEWS01/701309860/1140 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130130182430/http://www.omaha.com/article/20110130/NEWS01/701309860/1140 |url-status = dead |archive-date = January 30, 2013 |access-date = February 6, 2011 }}</ref>

Planned Parenthood's advocacy activities are executed by the ''Planned Parenthood Action Fund'', which is registered as a [[501(c)#501(c)(4)|501(c)(4)]] charity, and files financial information jointly with PPFA.<ref name="PPFA audited financial" /> The committee was founded in 1996, by then-president Gloria Feldt, to maintain supportive health rights and supporting political candidates of the same mindset. In the 2012 election cycle, the committee gained prominence based on its effectiveness in spending on candidates.<ref name="outside spenders">{{cite web |last = Young |first = Lindsay |title = Outside spenders' return on investment |url = http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/12/17/return_on_investment/ |publisher = Sunlight Foundation |access-date = April 29, 2014 |archive-date = April 29, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140429201438/http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/12/17/return_on_investment/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Although the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) shares some leadership with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the president of PPAF, [[Cecile Richards]],<ref name="PPAF Richards">{{cite web |title = Planned Parenthood Action Fund |url = http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections-politics/about-us/cecile-richards/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150316214901/http://plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections-politics/about-us/cecile-richards/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = March 16, 2015 |website = www.plannedparenthoodaction.org |access-date = October 13, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Richards Statement">{{cite journal |last1 = Richards |first1 = Cecile |title = Statement of Cecile Richards Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |journal = U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |date = September 29, 2015 |url = https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Richards-PPFA-Statement-9-29-Planned-Parenthood.pdf |access-date = October 13, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208045553/https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Richards-PPFA-Statement-9-29-Planned-Parenthood.pdf |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |url-status = dead }}</ref> testified before Congress in September 2015 that she did not manage the organization.<ref name="NYT Richards">{{cite news |last1 = Shear |first1 = Michael |title = Planned Parenthood's Leader Pushes Back Against G.O.P. Critics |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/politics/planned-parenthood-congress-republicans.html |access-date = October 13, 2015 |work =[[The New York Times]] |date = September 29, 2015 |archive-date = October 17, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151017005427/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/politics/planned-parenthood-congress-republicans.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has 58 active, separately incorporated chapters in 41 states<ref name="involved locally">{{cite web |title = Get Involved Locally: Planned Parenthood Action Fund |url = http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections-politics/get-involved-locally/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130928181356/http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections-politics/get-involved-locally/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = September 28, 2013 |website = www.plannedparenthoodaction.org |access-date = October 13, 2015 }}</ref> and maintains national headquarters in New York and Washington, D.C.<ref name="action fund contact">{{cite web |title = Contact: Planned Parenthood Action Fund |url = http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/about-us/contact-us/ |website = www.plannedparenthoodaction.org |access-date = October 13, 2015 |archive-date = September 26, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150926165319/http://plannedparenthoodaction.org/about-us/contact-us/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Planned Parenthood has received grants from the Obama administration to help promote the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]], or ObamaCare.<ref name="obamacare grants">{{cite news |last1 = Ferris |first1 = Sarah |title = Planned Parenthood gets $1M in ObamaCare grants |url = https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/252597-planned-parenthood-awarded-1-million-in-obamacare-grants/ |access-date = November 5, 2015 |work =[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date = September 2, 2015 |archive-date = October 21, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151021024155/http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/252597-planned-parenthood-awarded-1-million-in-obamacare-grants |url-status = live }}</ref>

=== Political spending ===

Planned Parenthood spends money on politics and elections through the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (its federal [[political action committee]]), through its Super PAC, and through a variety of related 501(c)(4) entities.<ref name="politifact">{{cite news |last1 = Jacobson |first1 = Louis |title = Carly Fiorina says Planned Parenthood gives 'millions' to candidates |url = http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/05/carly-fiorina/carly-fiorina-says-planned-parenthood-gives-millio/ |access-date = November 4, 2015 |publisher =[[PolitiFact]] |date = October 5, 2015 |archive-date = October 24, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151024022647/http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/05/carly-fiorina/carly-fiorina-says-planned-parenthood-gives-millio/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Planned Parenthood endorsed Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.<ref name="endorses obama">{{cite news |last1 = Zenilman |first1 = Avi |title = Planned Parenthood endorses Obama |url = http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/07/planned-parenthood-endorses-obama-010150 |access-date = November 4, 2015 |publisher =[[Politico]] |date = July 8, 2008 |archive-date = November 17, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117020834/http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/07/planned-parenthood-endorses-obama-010150 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="obama ad buy">{{cite news |last1 = Joseph |first1 = Cameron |title = Planned Parenthood endorses Obama with $1.4 million ad buy |url = https://thehill.com/video/campaign/229979-planned-parenthood-endorses-obama-launches-14m-ad-buy/ |access-date = November 4, 2015 |work =[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date = May 30, 2012 |archive-date = November 17, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117100436/http://thehill.com/video/campaign/229979-planned-parenthood-endorses-obama-launches-14m-ad-buy |url-status = live }}</ref> In the 2014 election cycle, Planned Parenthood spent {{US$|6,587,100|long=no}} on contributions to candidates and political parties (overwhelmingly to Democrats) and on independent expenditures.<ref name="politifact" /><ref name="OpenSecrets">{{cite web |title = Planned Parenthood |url = https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2014&id=D000000591 |publisher = [[OpenSecrets]] |archive-date = April 3, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190403003142/https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000591&cycle=2014 |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Before the U.S. Supreme Court ==

[[File:Roevwade.jpg|thumb|right|Former Planned Parenthood President [[Gloria Feldt]] with Congressman [[Albert Wynn]] in front of the U.S. Supreme Court]]

Planned Parenthood regional chapters have been active in the American courts. Several cases in which Planned Parenthood has been a party have reached the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]. Notable among these cases is the 1992 case ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]'', the case that sets forth the current constitutional abortion standard. In this case, "Planned Parenthood" was the Southeast Pennsylvania Chapter, and "Casey" was [[Robert P. Casey|Robert Casey]], the governor of [[Pennsylvania]]. The ultimate ruling was split, and ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' was narrowed but upheld in an opinion written by [[Sandra Day O'Connor]], [[Anthony Kennedy]], and [[David Souter]]. [[Harry Blackmun]] and [[John Paul Stevens]] concurred with the main decision in separately written opinions. The Supreme Court struck down spousal consent requirements for married women to obtain abortions, but found no "undue burden"—an alternative to [[strict scrutiny]], which tests the allowable limitations on rights protected under the Constitution—from the other statutory requirements. Dissenting were [[William Rehnquist]], [[Antonin Scalia]], [[Clarence Thomas]], and [[Byron White]]. Blackmun, Rehnquist, and White were the only justices who voted on the original ''Roe v. Wade'' decision in 1973 who were still on the Supreme Court to rule on this case, and their votes on this case were consistent with their votes on the original decision that legalized abortion.<ref name="penn v casey">{{cite web |url = http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0505_0833_ZS.html |title = Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey |work = cornell.edu |access-date = August 12, 2005 |archive-date = May 21, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060521160329/http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0505_0833_ZS.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Only Blackmun voted to maintain ''Roe v. Wade'' in its entirety.<ref name="casey 505">{{cite web |url = https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.html |title = Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey 505 U.S. 833 |author = [[Harry Blackmun]] |work = [[Supreme Court of the United States]] |date = June 29, 1992 |pages = 923–926 |access-date = February 26, 2016 |archive-date = March 2, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160302013910/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

''Planned Parenthood v. Casey'', along with ''Roe v. Wade'', was eventually overturned by ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'' in 2022.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title = Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) |url = https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/597/19-1392/ |access-date =  |website = Justia Law |language = en |archive-date = July 29, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220729135019/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/597/19-1392/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

'''Other related cases include:'''

* ''[[Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth]]'' (1976). Planned Parenthood challenged the constitutionality of a Missouri law encompassing parental consent, spousal consent, clinic bookkeeping, and allowed abortion methods. Portions of the challenged law were held to be constitutional, others not.<ref name="pp vs danforth">{{cite web |url = http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0428_0052_ZS.html |title = Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth |work = cornell.edu |access-date = August 12, 2005 |archive-date = September 18, 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050918095651/http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0428_0052_ZS.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The decision was superseded by ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'' (2022).<ref name=":4" />
* ''Planned Parenthood Association of Kansas City v. Ashcroft'' (1983). Planned Parenthood challenged the constitutionality of a Missouri law encompassing parental consent, clinic record keeping, and hospitalization requirements. Most of the challenged law was held to be constitutional.<ref name="pp vs ashcroft">{{Cite journal |last1 = u.s. Supreme |first1 = C. |title = Planned Parenthood Association of Kansas City v. Ashcroft |journal = United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court At&nbsp;... And Rules Announced At&nbsp;... United States. Supreme Court |volume = 462 |pages = 476–505 |year = 1983 |pmid = 12041276 }}</ref> The decision was superseded by ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'' (2022).<ref name=":4" />
* ''[[Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists]]'' (2002). The [[American Coalition of Life Activists]] (ACLA) released a flier and [[Wanted poster|"Wanted" posters]] with complete personal information about doctors who performed abortions. A civil jury and the [[Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] both found that the materials were "[[true threat]]s" and not [[protected speech]].<ref name="pp vs acola">{{cite web |url = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Cybercrime/planned-parenthood.html |title = Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists |publisher = Cyber.law.harvard.edu |access-date = April 9, 2011 |archive-date = April 29, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110429023848/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Cybercrime/planned-parenthood.html |url-status = live }}</ref> ACLA appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, but the appeal was rejected.<ref>''Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, Inc. v. ACLA'' (''PPCW IV''), ''eh'g en banc granted,'' 268 F.3d 908 (9th Cir. 2001).</ref>
* ''[[Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood]]'' (2003). Planned Parenthood sued [[U.S. attorney general|U.S. Attorney General]] [[Alberto Gonzales]] for an injunction against the enforcement of the [[Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003]]. Planned Parenthood argued the act was unconstitutional because it violated the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]], namely in that it was overly vague, violated women's constitutional right to have access to abortion, and did not include language for exceptions for the health of the mother. Both the district court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed,<ref name="gonzales v pp">{{cite web |url = https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2006/2006_05_1382 |title = Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood &#124; The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law |publisher = Oyez.org |access-date = April 9, 2011 |archive-date = October 21, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131021212711/http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2006/2006_05_1382 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/certgrants/2006/gonvpla |title = Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. |publisher = Duke Law, Supreme Court Online |access-date = February 9, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110305154340/http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/certgrants/2006/gonvpla |archive-date = March 5, 2011 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> but that decision was overturned in a 5{{ndash}}4 ruling by the Supreme Court.<ref name="harder stance">{{cite news |url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-18-partial-birth-ruling_N.htm |title = Court takes harder stance on abortion |publisher =[[USA Today]] |date = April 18, 2007 |author-link = Joan Biskupic |last = Biskupic |first = Joan |access-date = September 8, 2017 |archive-date = June 28, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628203413/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-18-partial-birth-ruling_N.htm |url-status = live }}</ref>
* ''[[Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England]]'' (2006). Planned Parenthood ''et al.'' challenged the constitutionality of a [[New Hampshire]] parental notification law related to access to abortion.<ref name="01144qp">[{{SCOTUS URL|qp/04-01144qp.pdf}} Questions before the Court]</ref> In [[Sandra Day O'Connor]]'s final decision before retirement, the Supreme Court sent the case back to lower courts with instructions to seek a remedy short of wholesale invalidation of the statute. New Hampshire ended up repealing the statute via the legislative process.<ref name="nh repeal">{{cite news |last = Belluck |first = Pam |title = New Hampshire to Repeal Parental Notification Law |newspaper =[[The New York Times]] |date = June 8, 2007 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/us/08parental.html |access-date = February 9, 2011 |archive-date = April 2, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120402221944/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/us/08parental.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The decision was superseded by ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'' (2022).<ref name=":4" />

== Other court cases ==
{{anchor|State and local court cases against Planned Parenthood}}

Some [[state attorney general|state attorneys general]] have [[subpoena]]ed medical records of patients treated by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood has gone to court to keep from turning over these records, citing [[medical privacy]] and concerns about the motivation for seeking the records.<ref name="kansas-ag" />

In 2006, [[Kansas Attorney General]] [[Phill Kline]], a Republican, released some sealed patient records obtained from Planned Parenthood to the public. His actions were described as "troubling" by the state Supreme Court, but Planned Parenthood was compelled to turn over the medical records, albeit with more stringent court-mandated privacy safeguards for the patients involved.<ref name="kansas-ag">{{cite news |work = [[The New York Times]] |first = Jori |last = Rudoren |title = Kansas' Top Court Limits Abortion Record Search |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04kansas.html |date = February 4, 2006 |access-date = September 19, 2011 |archive-date = May 20, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130520213427/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04kansas.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2007 Kline's successor, [[Paul&nbsp;J. Morrison]], a Democrat, notified the clinic that no criminal charges would be filed after a three-year investigation, as "an objective, unbiased and thorough examination" showed no wrongdoing. Morrison stated that he believed Kline had politicized the Attorney General's office.<ref name="kansas probe">{{cite news |title = Planned Parenthood Clinic Is Cleared in Kansas Probe |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |date = June 28, 2007 |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062702312.html |access-date = December 22, 2010 |archive-date = November 11, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111234706/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062702312.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2012, a Kansas district attorney found that the practices of the [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]-area Planned Parenthood clinic was "within accepted practices in the medical community" and dropped all of the remaining criminal charges. In all, the Planned Parenthood clinic had faced 107 criminal charges from Kline and other Kansas prosecutors, all of which were ultimately dismissed.<ref name="da drops">{{cite news |title = Kansas DA drops all criminal charges against Planned Parenthood clinic |url = http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-da-drops-all-criminal-charges-against-planned-parenthood-clinic/ |access-date = November 5, 2015 |agency = [[Associated Press]] |publisher =[[CBS News]] |date = August 17, 2012 |archive-date = December 8, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170055/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-da-drops-all-criminal-charges-against-planned-parenthood-clinic/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2006, the [[Indiana Court of Appeals]] ruled that Planned Parenthood was not required to turn over its medical records in an investigation of possible child abuse.<ref name="pp v carter">{{cite news |title = Planned Parenthood of Indiana v. Carter, 854 N.E.2d 853 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006). |url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8816463008226382805 |access-date = February 23, 2016 |archive-date = March 13, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170313093723/https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8816463008226382805&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2005, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota was fined {{US$|50000|long=no}} for violating a Minnesota state [[parental consent]] law.<ref name="st paul lawsuit">{{cite news |last = Prather |title = Judge Faults St. Paul Clinic in Abortion Lawsuit |newspaper = [[St. Paul Pioneer Press]] |date = October 13, 2005 |page = A1 }}</ref>

In 2012, a [[Texas judiciary|Texas state court]] judge, Gary Harger, denied Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary restraining order against the [[Texas|State of Texas]], concluding that the State may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if the doctors or clinics advocate for abortion rights.<ref>Claire Z. Cardona, [http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/judge-allows-texas-to-ban-state-funding-to-planned-parenthood.html/ Judge allows Texas to ban state funding to Planned Parenthood] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425112045/http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/judge-allows-texas-to-ban-state-funding-to-planned-parenthood.html/ |date=April 25, 2016}}, ''Dallas Morning News'' (December 31, 2012).</ref>

In 2022, Nicole Moore, a Black woman who was the director of Planned Parenthood's multicultural brand engagement from January 2020 to November 2021, filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced months of racial discrimination while working at Planned Parenthood.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Archie |first = Ayana |date = 2022-10-20 |title = A former employee sues Planned Parenthood, claiming she faced months of racism |language = en |work =[[NPR]] |url = https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1130133440/planned-parenthood-racism-lawsuit |access-date = 2022-10-21 |archive-date = October 21, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221021011328/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1130133440/planned-parenthood-racism-lawsuit |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Impact ==

A 2016 study found that the exclusion of Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics from Texas's Medicaid fee-for-service family-planning program was linked to reductions in the provision of contraception and an increase in child-bearing for women who used injectable contraceptives and who were covered by Medicaid.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stevenson |first1=Amanda J. |last2=Flores-Vazquez |first2=Imelda M. |last3=Allgeyer |first3=Richard L. |last4=Schenkkan |first4=Pete |last5=Potter |first5=Joseph E. |date=2016-03-03 |title=Effect of Removal of Planned Parenthood from the Texas Women's Health Program |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |volume=374 |issue=9 |pages=853–860 |doi=10.1056/NEJMsa1511902 |issn=0028-4793 |pmc=5129844 |pmid=26836435}}</ref>

A 2020 study found that closure of Planned Parenthood clinics resulted in increases in the maternal mortality rate: "Planned Parenthood clinic closures negatively impacted all women, increasing mortality by 6–15% across racial/ethnic groups."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Hawkins |first1=Summer Sherburne |last2=Ghiani |first2=Marco |last3=Harper |first3=Sam |last4=Baum |first4=Christopher F. |last5=Kaufman |first5=Jay S. |date=2020-02-01 |title=Impact of State-Level Changes on Maternal Mortality: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study |url=https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(19)30419-2/abstract |journal=American Journal of Preventive Medicine |language=en |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=165–174 |doi=10.1016/j.amepre.2019.09.012 |issn=0749-3797 |pmid=31859173 |s2cid=209425567 |access-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113025103/https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2819%2930419-2/fulltext |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://econofact.org/do-state-level-policies-impact-maternal-mortality|title=Do State-Level Policies Impact Maternal Mortality Rates? {{!}} Econofact|date=2020-02-24|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-25|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225151813/https://econofact.org/do-state-level-policies-impact-maternal-mortality|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Debate and opposition ==
{{anchor|Controversy and criticism}}

=== Margaret Sanger and eugenics ===
{{Further|Margaret Sanger#Eugenics|Eugenic feminism}}

In the 1920s, various theories of [[eugenics]] were popular among intellectuals in the U.S.<ref name="sacred work">{{cite book |last = Davis |first = Tom |title = Sacred work: Planned Parenthood and its clergy alliances |url = https://archive.org/details/sacredworkplanne0000davi |url-access = registration |year = 2005 |publisher = Rutgers University Press |page = [https://archive.org/details/sacredworkplanne0000davi/page/35 35] }}</ref> In her campaign to promote birth control, Sanger teamed with eugenics organizations such as the [[American Eugenics Society]], although she argued against many of their positions.<ref name="woman of valor">{{cite book |last = Chesler |first = Ellen |title = Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America |url = https://archive.org/details/womanofvalormar000ches |url-access = registration |year = 2007 |publisher = Simon and Schuster |pages = [https://archive.org/details/womanofvalormar000ches/page/195 195], 216–217, 343, 490 |isbn = 9781416540762 }}</ref><ref name="selected papers">{{cite book |title = The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1 |year = 2003 |publisher = University of Illinois Press |page = 274 |editor = Esther Katz |display-editors = etal }}</ref> Scholars describe Sanger as believing that birth control and sterilization should be voluntary, and not based on race.<ref name="foes of abortion">{{cite news |last = Daiwan |first = Shaila |title = To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/us/27race.html |access-date = August 6, 2011 |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |date = February 27, 2010 |archive-date = July 1, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170701010558/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/us/27race.html?sq=to%20court%20blacks,%20foes%20of%20abortion&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1312626120-SuELxigypPf+xAK5HJLHcw |url-status = live }}</ref> Sanger advocated for "voluntary motherhood"—the right to choose when to be pregnant—for all women, as an important element of [[women's rights]].<ref name="bc politics">{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=it1LHbLKVpkC&pg=PA10 |page = 10 |title = Birth Control, Politics in the United States, 1916–1945 |last = McCann |first = Carole R. |author-link = Carole McCann |year = 1999 |publisher = Cornell University Press |isbn = 978-0-8014-8612-8 |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = October 4, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151004141108/https://books.google.com/books?id=it1LHbLKVpkC&pg=PA10 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-3J_3pDNZlkC&pg=PA751 |page = 751 |title = Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook |volume = 1 |last = McCann |first = Carole R. |author-link = Carole McCann |chapter = Women as Leaders in the Contraceptive Movement |editor = Karen O'Connor |publisher = SAGE |year = 2010 |isbn = 978-1-4129-6083-0 |access-date = December 31, 2014 |archive-date = May 18, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150518190310/https://books.google.com/books?id=-3J_3pDNZlkC&pg=PA751 |url-status = live }}</ref> As part of her efforts to promote birth control, however, Sanger found common cause with proponents of eugenics, believing that she and they both sought to "assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit".<ref name="engelman 2010">Peter Engelman – ''A History of Birth Control in America'', Prager, New York, 2010.</ref>

Critics of Planned Parenthood often refer to Sanger's connection with supporters of eugenics to discredit the organization by associating it, and birth control, with the more negative modern view of eugenics.<ref name="a racist">{{cite journal |last = Valenza |first = Charles |title = Was Margaret Sanger a Racist? |journal = Family Planning Perspectives |date = January–February 1985 |volume = 17 |issue = 1 |pages = 44–46 |url = http://chaztv.squarespace.com/storage/Margaret%20Sanger%20CV.pdf |access-date = August 6, 2011 |pmid = 3884362 |doi = 10.2307/2135230 |jstor = 2135230 |archive-date = December 14, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111214022434/http://chaztv.squarespace.com/storage/Margaret%20Sanger%20CV.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="bomberger again">{{cite news |last = Chamlee |first = Virginia |title = Bomberger again lashes out at NPR, Veazey |url = http://floridaindependent.com/40946/bomberger-again-lashes-out-at-npr-veazey |access-date = August 6, 2011 |newspaper = The Florida Independent |date = July 27, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110911154543/http://floridaindependent.com/40946/bomberger-again-lashes-out-at-npr-veazey |archive-date = September 11, 2011 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Reacting to criticisms of Sanger's endorsement of eugenics, in 2020 Planned Parenthood took steps to distance itself from their founder by removing some mentions of  Sanger from their website and renaming the Planned Parenthood building on [[Bleecker Street]] (which previously was named after Sanger).<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html |title= Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics| newspaper = The New York Times | date= July 21, 2020|access-date= July 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Alexis McGill |date=April 17, 2021 |title=I'm the Head of Planned Parenthood. We're Done Making Excuses for Our Founder. |department=Opinion |language=en-US|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opinion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger.html|access-date=April 17, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{refn|group="note"|In 2016, Planned Parenthood had published a fact sheet explaining Sanger's positions on a variety of topics: {{cite web |title = Opposition Claims About Margaret Sanger |url = https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf |publisher = Planned Parenthood |access-date = November 5, 2015 |archive-date = March 8, 2017 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20170308150847/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf |url-status = live }}}}  Essayist [[Katha Pollitt]] and Sanger biographer Ellen Chesner criticized Planned Parenthood for succumbing to pressure from the anti-abortion movement.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-04-20 |last=Chesner|first=Ellen|title=Opinion {{!}} Defending Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's Founder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/letters/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pollitt |first=Katha |date=2020-08-20 |title=Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/canceling-margaret-sanger/ |access-date=2025-01-12 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}} </ref>

=== Abortion ===

Planned Parenthood has occupied a central position in the [[abortion debate]] in the U.S. and has been among the most prominent targets of the [[United States anti-abortion movement|U.S. anti-abortion movement]] for decades. Some members of Congress, overwhelmingly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], have attempted since the 1980s to end federal funding of the organization,<ref name="thorn" /> nearly leading to a government shutdown over the issue in 2011.<ref name="budget shutdown">{{cite news |last1 = Dwyer |first1 = Devin |title = Planned Parenthood at Center of Budget Shutdown Threat |url = https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/planned-parenthood-center-budget-shutdown-threat/story?id=13328750 |access-date = March 5, 2015 |publisher = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date = April 8, 2011 |archive-date = March 6, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150306195029/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/planned-parenthood-center-budget-shutdown-threat/story?id=13328750 |url-status = live }}</ref> Planned Parenthood has consistently maintained that federal money received by Planned Parenthood is not used to fund abortion services, but anti-abortion activists have argued that the federal funding frees up other resources that are, in turn, used to provide abortions.<ref name="thorn" />

Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S.,<ref name="yahoo.com">{{cite web |url = http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/planned-parenthood-abortion-and-the-budget-fight/ |title = Planned Parenthood, abortion and the budget fight |work =[[The Seattle Times]] |date = April 8, 2011 |access-date = November 3, 2012 |archive-date = September 24, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115510/http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/planned-parenthood-abortion-and-the-budget-fight/ |url-status = live }}</ref> but [[Abortion-rights movements|pro-choice]] advocates have argued that the organization's family planning services reduce the need for abortions; in the words of Megan Crepeau of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Planned Parenthood could be "characterized as America's largest abortion preventer".<ref name="bait and switch">{{cite news |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/04/04/the-great-republican-bait-and-switch/ |title = The great Republican bait-and-switch |last = Crepeau |first = Megan |date = April 4, 2011 |work = [[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date = February 24, 2021 |archive-date = May 14, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514154846/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-04/news/ct-oped-0404-reproduction-20110404_1_fiscal-responsibility-cervical-cancer-screenings-planned-parenthood |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="texas says">* Finn, Robin, "Anti-Abortion Advocates? Bring 'Em On, Texan Says", ''The New York Times'', March 10, 2006. Quote: "PLANNED PARENTHOOD serves five million Americans and concentrates 90 percent of its efforts on preventing unwanted pregnancies, Ms.{{nbsp}}Richards, says, not terminating them. 'No one does more to reduce the need for abortions in this country than Planned Parenthood.'"[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/nyregion/10lives.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520223024/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/nyregion/10lives.html|date=May 20, 2013}}
* Also, Emily Stewart, director of public policy for Planned Parenthood said: "Without a doubt, when women have access to birth control, it reduces unintended pregnancies" [http://www.vpr.net/npr/140156682/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402152415/http://www.vpr.net/npr/140156682/|date=April 2, 2012}}</ref> Anti-abortion activists dispute the evidence that greater access to contraceptives reduces abortion frequency.<ref name="step up attacks">{{cite news |last1 = Rovner |first1 = Julie |title = Conservatives Step Up Attacks On Public Funding For Birth Control |url = https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/09/07/140156682/conservatives-step-up-attacks-on-public-funding-for-birth-control |access-date = July 21, 2015 |publisher =[[NPR]] |date = September 7, 2011 |archive-date = September 19, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150919124229/http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/09/07/140156682/conservatives-step-up-attacks-on-public-funding-for-birth-control |url-status = live }}</ref>
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==== Undercover videos by anti-abortion activists ====
{{anchor|Undercover recordings by pro-life activists}}

Periodically, anti-abortion advocates have tried to demonstrate that Planned Parenthood does not follow applicable state or federal laws. The groups called or visited Planned Parenthood health centers posing as victims of [[statutory rape]],<ref name="undercover sting 2002">{{cite news |title = Pro-Life Group Launches Undercover Sting |url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/pro-life-group-launches-undercover-sting |publisher = [[Fox News Channel]] |date = May 31, 2002 |access-date = March 12, 2007 |archive-date = August 30, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060830175900/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54079,00.html |url-status = live }}</ref> minors who by law need parental notification before an abortion,<ref name="tactics">{{cite news |last = Mieszkowski |first = Katharine |title = Abortion foes' dirty tactics: Advocates of a California "parental notification" bill accuse Planned Parenthood of protecting sexual predators instead of teen girls. But who is really breaking the law? |work = [[Salon.com]] |date = November 4, 2006 |url = http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/04/parental_notification |access-date = January 14, 2011 |archive-date = February 15, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110215110818/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/04/parental_notification |url-status = live | quote=Suspected abuse can be reported either to the police or child protective services. And in 2005, a federal inspection conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the Bush administration's Department of Health and Human Services found that that's exactly what happens when a child who may have been abused comes into a family planning clinic. The inquiry yielded no evidence of clinics around the nation failing to comply with laws on reporting child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest. }}</ref> racist donors seeking to earmark donations to reduce the African American population,<ref name="pastors" /><ref name="A serious mistake">{{cite news |last = Forester |first = Sandra |title = Response to caller 'a serious mistake', says Planned Parenthood of Idaho |work = [[Idaho Statesman]] |publisher = [[The McClatchy Company]] |date = February 28, 2008 }}</ref> or pimps seeking abortions for underage prostitutes.<ref name="Crary">{{cite news |last = Crary |first = David |title = Clinic manager fired after anti-abortion sting |agency =[[Associated Press]] |date = February 2, 2011 |url = http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41382676 |access-date = February 5, 2011 |archive-date = January 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230113025047/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna41382676 |url-status = dead }}</ref> As a result of some of these videos, several Planned Parenthood workers have been disciplined or fired.<ref name="A serious mistake" /><ref name="Crary" /> An article in [[Salon (magazine)|''Salon'']] stated that a 2005 inspection by the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration's]] [[Department of Health and Human Services]] "yielded no evidence of clinics around the nation failing to comply with laws on reporting child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest".<ref name="tactics" />

===== Live Action videos =====
{{anchor|Live Action undercover videos}}

Beginning in 2010, [[Live Action (organization)|Live Action]] released several series of undercover videos filmed in Planned Parenthood centers. Live Action said one series showed Planned Parenthood employees at many affiliates actively assisting or being complicit in aiding a prostitution ring,<ref name="the assault">{{cite news |title = Behind the Assault on Planned Parenthood |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/planned-parenthood-funding_n_827886.html |work =[[HuffPost]] |agency = AOL News |date = February 25, 2011 |access-date = April 19, 2011 |first = Ryan |last = Grim |archive-date = March 14, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110314065225/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/planned-parenthood-funding_n_827886.html |url-status = live }}</ref> advising patients on how to procure sex-selective abortions,<ref name="sting caught">{{cite web |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/planned-parenthood-video_n_1552672.html |title = Planned Parenthood Sting Caught On Video, Released By Anti-Abortion Activists (VIDEO) |last = Bassett |first = Laura |date = May 29, 2012 |publisher =[[HuffPost]] |access-date = August 3, 2015 |archive-date = July 23, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150723140147/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/planned-parenthood-video_n_1552672.html |url-status = live }}</ref> while one who said they would immerse a child born alive after a botched abortion in a chemical solution to make it stop moving and breathing.<ref name="live action releases">{{cite news |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/live-action-abortion-videos_n_3178725.html |title = Live Action, Anti-Abortion Group, Releases Undercover Videos From Abortion Clinics |first = Hunter |last = Stuart |work =[[HuffPost]] |date = April 29, 2013 |access-date = August 3, 2015 |archive-date = September 24, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924182040/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/live-action-abortion-videos_n_3178725.html |url-status = live }}</ref> No criminal convictions resulted,<ref name="no prosecution">{{cite news |title = Holder: No Prosecution in Connection With Planned Parenthood Video Sting |url = http://nation.foxnews.com/planned-parenthood/2011/03/01/holder-no-prosecution-connection-planned-parenthood-video-sting |publisher = [[Fox News Channel]] |date = March 1, 2011 |access-date = April 1, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304213708/http://nation.foxnews.com/planned-parenthood/2011/03/01/holder-no-prosecution-connection-planned-parenthood-video-sting |archive-date = March 4, 2011 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref> but some Planned Parenthood employees and volunteers were fired for not following procedure, and the organization committed to retraining its staff.<ref name="retrain staff">{{cite news |title = Planned Parenthood to Retrain Public Staff |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/08parenthood.html |work =[[The New York Times]] |date = February 7, 2011 |access-date = March 15, 2011 |first = Erik |last = Eckholm |archive-date = June 30, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120630174131/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/08parenthood.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Additionally, one center was placed on probation.<ref name="birmingham clinic">{{cite news |url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/10/ap-birmingham-abortion-clinic-put-on-probation/ |title = AP: Birmingham abortion clinic put on probation |last = Hunter |first = Desiree |date = February 10, 2010 |agency =[[Associated Press]] |work =[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |access-date = August 3, 2015 |archive-date = June 28, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628200709/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/10/ap-birmingham-abortion-clinic-put-on-probation/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

===== Center for Medical Progress videos =====
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== Violence by anti-abortion activists ==
{{Main|Anti-abortion violence}}

In the U.S., abortion providers have been threatened with death, and facilities that provide abortions have been attacked or vandalized.<ref name="wp-booth">{{cite news |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/abortviolence/stories/gunn.htm |title = Doctor Killed During Abortion Protest |first = William |last = Booth |date = March 11, 1993 |access-date = September 8, 2015 |archive-date = July 20, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170720141851/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/abortviolence/stories/gunn.htm |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Huffp bomb" /> Planned Parenthood clinics have been the target of many instances of [[anti-abortion violence|violence]] by anti-abortion activists, including but not limited to [[bomb]]ing, [[arson]] and attacks with [[chemical weapon]]ry.{{refn|<ref name="not attacked">{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/planned-parenthood-deserves-to-be-supported-not-attacked/2015/07/16/373c8f58-2bba-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html |title = Planned Parenthood deserves to be supported not attacked |access-date = August 6, 2015 |newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] |archive-date = August 11, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150811025457/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/planned-parenthood-deserves-to-be-supported-not-attacked/2015/07/16/373c8f58-2bba-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="religious violence">{{Cite book |title = Religious violence and abortion: the Gideon Project |year = 1993 |publisher = University Press of Florida |first1 = Dallas A. |last1 = Blanchard |first2 = Terry James |last2 = Prewitt |url = https://archive.org/details/religiousviolenc0000blan |url-access = registration |isbn = 978-0-8130-1193-6 |access-date = October 25, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="political violence">{{Cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MgM1s1Kk0GwC |title = Political violence and terrorism in modern America: a chronology |year = 2005 |first = Christopher |last = Hewitt |publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn = 978-0-313-33418-4 |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = April 30, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160430092825/https://books.google.com/books?id=MgM1s1Kk0GwC |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="man charged">[http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/38230064.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUjc7YUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU Man charged with driving into Planned Parenthood facility] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215151115/http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/38230064.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUjc7YUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU |date=February 15, 2009 }}." (January 23, 2009). "Minneapolis Star-Tribune." Retrieved January 27, 2009.</ref><ref name="threats prompt">{{cite news |title = Threats Prompt More Security: Fresno Planned Parenthood Office is Walling Up Windows |url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FB&p_theme=fb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE8893D169D5CD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |access-date = February 24, 2011 |newspaper = [[The Fresno Bee]] |date = August 3, 1995 |archive-date = October 24, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121024214416/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FB&p_theme=fb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE8893D169D5CD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="wattleton assails">{{Cite news |work = Jet |date = March 18, 1985 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HbEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11 |page = 11 |title = Wattleton Assails Rash of Planned Parenthood Center Bombings, Arson |publisher = Johnson Publishing Company |access-date = October 27, 2015 |archive-date = April 30, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160430125152/https://books.google.com/books?id=HbEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="a day after">{{Cite news |work =[[The New York Times]] |url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40711F63E5B0C768EDDAB0894DF484D81 |title = A day after cardinal's appeal, bombing suspect surrenders |first = Todd S. |last = Purdum |date = February 25, 1987 }}</ref><ref name="resolutions">{{Cite book |chapter = Fetal Tissue: Reproductive Rights and Activist Video |last = Zimmerman |first = Patricia R. |page = 305 |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sW0mJD8XLgYC&pg=PA305 |title = Resolutions: contemporary video practices |editor-first = Michael |editor-last = Renov |editor2-first = Erika |editor2-last = Suderburg |isbn = 978-0-8166-2330-3 |year = 1996 |publisher = U of Minnesota Press |access-date = October 25, 2015 |archive-date = May 6, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160506063644/https://books.google.com/books?id=sW0mJD8XLgYC&pg=PA305 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="right wing silent">{{Cite news |work =[[Salon.com|Salon]] |first = Alex |last = Pareene |url = http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/30/planned_parenthood_terrorism |date = July 30, 2011 |title = Planned Parenthood firebombed, right wing silent |access-date = August 10, 2011 |archive-date = August 11, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110811043831/http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/30/planned_parenthood_terrorism |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |work =[[HuffPost]] |date = April 2, 2012 |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/planned-parenthood-bomb-wisconsin_n_1396665.html |title = Planned Parenthood Bombed In Wisconsin |access-date = April 2, 2012 |archive-date = April 3, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120403075537/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/planned-parenthood-bomb-wisconsin_n_1396665.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="ruled arson">Victoria Cavaliere and Ryan Woo (September 5, 2015). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-washington-arson-idUSKCN0R504Q20150905 Fire at Washington state Planned Parenthood ruled arson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127025929/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/05/us-usa-washington-arson-idUSKCN0R504Q20150905 |date=November 27, 2015}}. ''Reuters''. Retrieved September 7, 2015.</ref>}} In 1994, [[John Salvi]] entered a [[Brookline, Massachusetts]] Planned Parenthood clinic and opened fire, murdering receptionist Shannon Elizabeth Lowney and wounding three others. He fled to another Planned Parenthood clinic where he murdered Leane Nichols and wounded two others.<ref name="understood risk">{{Cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oIEiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1655,10020 |work = The Item |date = January 1, 1995 |title = Shooting victim understood risks, but loved her job |agency =[[Associated Press]] |access-date = September 4, 2020 |archive-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923051340/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oIEiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1655,10020 |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2012, a Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood clinic was subject to a bombing perpetrated by an unknown individual.<ref name="Huffp bomb">{{cite web |title = Small Bomb Explodes Outside Planned Parenthood Clinic In Wisconsin |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/planned-parenthood-bomb-wisconsin_n_1396665.html |website =[[HuffPost]] |date = April 2, 2012 |access-date = August 5, 2015 |archive-date = July 23, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150723221759/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/planned-parenthood-bomb-wisconsin_n_1396665.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In 2015, a Planned Parenthood clinic in [[Pullman, Washington]] was heavily damaged by arson.<ref name="washpost2">{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fire-at-planned-parenthood-in-washington-state-was-arson/2015/09/04/6b296bf2-5364-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362_story.html |title = Arson was cause of Planned Parenthood fire in Washington |newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] |date = September 4, 2015 |access-date = September 20, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="montereyherald2">{{cite web |url = http://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20150904/fire-at-planned-parenthood-in-washington-state-was-arson |title = Arson was cause of Planned Parenthood fire in Washington |work = montereyherald.com |date = September 4, 2015 |access-date = September 20, 2015 |archive-date = January 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230113025048/https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/09/04/arson-was-cause-of-planned-parenthood-fire-in-washington-2/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

=== 2015 shooting ===
{{Main|Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting}}

On November 27, 2015, a gunman shot and killed two civilians and a police officer during a five-hour gun battle at the [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]] clinic.<ref name="NYT2711">{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting.html |title = 3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center |last1 = Turkewitz |first1 = Julie |last2 = Healy |first2 = Jack |date = November 27, 2015 |work = [[The New York Times]] |access-date = November 27, 2015 |archive-date = November 28, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151128112332/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Gazette">{{cite web |title = Death of UCCS police officer in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting confirmed |work = [[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|Colorado Springs Gazette]] |url = http://gazette.com/death-of-uccs-police-officer-in-colorado-springs-planned-parenthood-shooting-confirmed/article/1564442 |date = November 28, 2015 |access-date = November 28, 2015 |archive-date = November 29, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151129222228/http://gazette.com/death-of-uccs-police-officer-in-colorado-springs-planned-parenthood-shooting-confirmed/article/1564442 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="cnn2711">{{cite news |url = http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/27/us/colorado-shooting-probe/ |title = Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting: 3 dead, suspect captured (updated) |last1 = Shoichet |first1 = Catherine E. |last2 = Stapleton |first2 = AnneClaire |last3 = Botelho |first3 = Greg |date = November 27, 2015 |publisher =[[CNN]] |access-date = November 27, 2015 |archive-date = November 29, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151129060556/http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/27/us/colorado-shooting-probe/ |url-status = live }}</ref> The 57-year-old gunman,<ref name="DP2711">{{cite news |url = http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29172660/colorado-springs-firefighters-respond-active-shooter-at-planned |title = Planned Parenthood shooting: 3 killed, including 1 police officer in Colorado Springs |last1 = Paul |first1 = Jesse |last2 = Steffen |first2 = Jordan |last3 = Ingold |first3 = John |date = November 27, 2015 |newspaper = [[The Denver Post]] |access-date = November 28, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151127230543/http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29172660/colorado-springs-firefighters-respond-active-shooter-at-planned |archive-date = November 27, 2015 |df = mdy }}</ref> Robert Dear, surrendered to police and was taken into custody. During his arrest, he gave a "rambling" interview<ref name="robert dear">{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/robert-dear-suspect-in-colorado-killings-preferred-to-be-left-alone.html |title = Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, 'Preferred to Be Left Alone' |date = November 29, 2015 |work =[[The New York Times]] |access-date = December 10, 2015 |archive-date = December 10, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151210155112/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/robert-dear-suspect-in-colorado-killings-preferred-to-be-left-alone.html |url-status = live }}</ref> in which, at one point, he said "no more baby parts", echoing language used in the news media about the clinic following the Center for Medical Progress videos.<ref name="no more baby parts">{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-shooter-idUSKBN0TH05O20151129 |title = Colorado shooting suspect said 'no more baby parts': reports |work =[[Reuters]] |date = November 29, 2015 |access-date = July 1, 2017 |archive-date = December 2, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151202001211/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/29/us-colorado-shooter-iduskbn0th05o20151129 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34954474 |title = Planned Parenthood shooting: Suspect said 'no more baby parts' |work =[[BBC News]] |date = November 29, 2015 |access-date = December 10, 2015 |archive-date = July 20, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180720080247/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34954474 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="suspect in attack">{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/no-more-baby-parts-suspect-in-attack-at-colo-planned-parenthood-clinic-told-official/2015/11/28/e842b2cc-961e-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html |title = 'No more baby parts', suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official |author = Wesley Lowery |date = November 28, 2015 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |access-date = November 29, 2015 |archive-date = November 29, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151129033831/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/no-more-baby-parts-suspect-in-attack-at-colo-planned-parenthood-clinic-told-official/2015/11/28/e842b2cc-961e-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Dear was declared [[incompetent to stand trial]] for the shooting, citing experts' finding that he has "delusional disorder, persecutory type" and is now confined indefinitely to a state mental hospital.<ref>{{cite web |first = Trevor |last = Hughes |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/05/11/planned-parenthood-shooting-suspect-found-not-competent-stand-trial/84243964/ |title = Planned Parenthood shooting suspect found incompetent to stand trial |work = [[USA Today]] |date = May 11, 2016 |access-date = May 11, 2016 |archive-date = May 11, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160511214808/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/05/11/planned-parenthood-shooting-suspect-found-not-competent-stand-trial/84243964/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

== See also ==

{{Portal|Feminism|Medicine|United States}}

* {{section link|Susan G. Komen for the Cure|Relationship with Planned Parenthood}}
* [[Timeline of reproductive rights legislation]]
* [[United States abortion-rights movement]]
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== Notes ==

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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|first=Manon|last=Perry|title=Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning|location=New Brunswick, NJ|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2013}}

== External links ==

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* [https://www.plannedparenthood.org Official website]
* [http://plannedparenthoodaction.org/ Planned Parenthood Action Fund]
* {{NYTtopic|organizations/p/planned_parenthood_federation_of_america|Planned Parenthood Federation of America}}
* [https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/465 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records, 1918{{ndash}}1974] at the [[Sophia Smith Collection]], Smith College Special Collections
* [https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/487 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records, 1928{{ndash}}2009] at the [[Sophia Smith Collection]], Smith College Special Collections
* [https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00314617 Planned Parenthood at OpenSecrets.org]
* [https://www.everywomaneverychild.org/about/ United Nations: Every Woman Every Child] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814213328/http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/about/ |date=August 14, 2018 }}

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