Planned Parenthood

Aug. 15, 2019 – Iowa Rep. Steve King defended his party’s anti-abortion stance by claiming humanity would not exist without rape and incest. It was a desperate attempt to justify his abortion ban bill, which did not include exceptions for rape or incest. The measure failed to pass in Congress despite GOP support. Rep. King […]

June 24, 2019 – Planned Parenthood calls on Gov. Parson to fire Missouri’s top health official and apologize to abortion patients in the state. In an unprecedented move by Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Director Randall Williams caved to massive public outcry and the medical community’s protest against forced pelvic exams on […]

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 –– The Trump-Pence administration’s Title X gag rule takes effect in every state but Maryland, after a ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Just yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a spending package that would block the gag rule from being implemented because […]

WASHINGTON, DC, June 11, 2019 – The National Women’s Law Center, along with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Democracy Forward, is suing the Trump administration today to block a rule that would allow health workers broad discrimination practices against women and LGBTQ people. This lawsuit aims to stop the Trump administration’s “refusal of care” […]

Washington, DC, June 10, 2019 – Today, a Missouri circuit court judge granted Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region a preliminary injunction, allowing it to continue to provide abortion services at its health center for the time being. Reproductive Health Services is the last health center in the state that […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 12, 2019 – Planned Parenthood applauds the re-introduction of the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Woman Act in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Lee, Schakowsky, DeGette and the first-time introduction in the U.S. Senate, led by Senator Duckworth and a group of original co-sponsors including Senators Murray, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. February 22, 2019 – Despite mass outcry from the medical community and American people, the Trump-Pence administration today released a final gag rule that undermines Title X, the nation’s program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care, and makes it illegal for health care providers in the program to refer patients for an abortion. This puts health […]

Washington, D.C. Oct. 21, 2018 – This morning The New York Times reported that the Trump-Pence administration is planning a dramatic government-wide move to erase civil rights protections for transgender people, by narrowly defining gender identity, based on a person’s assigned sex at birth. This runs counter to guidance from respected medical groups, like the American […]

NEW YORK, NY, Aug. 29, 2018 – This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data showing “steep and sustained increases in STDs” in the U.S. The CDC’s report shows that almost 2.3 million cases of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea were diagnosed in the United States in 2017, surpassing the previous […]

Washington, D.C. May 29, 2018 — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which means that for now, Arkansas has become the first state in the country to ban medication abortion, and ended access to abortion at all but one health center in the state […]

WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2018 –  New polling from Hart Research Associates shows overwhelming opposition to the Trump-Pence administration’s efforts to take away women’s basic rights and health care. Across the country, 73 percent of Americans oppose administration actions like the domestic gag rule — rules that block access to care for millions of women […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 18, 2018 – Following reports that the Trump-Pence administration intends to introduce a gag rule today that would undermine the nation’s program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care, Planned Parenthood issued the following statement. This gag rule would do three things: It would impose new rules that are designed to make it impossible […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 23, 2018 – Today, the Trump-Pence administration took aim at the Title X program — the nation’s program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care that more than four million people rely on each year. They issued a new call for funding applications that radically shifts the program’s priorities: First, the […]