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High-resWe’re committed to helping all patients get the care they deserve. Through the Planned Parenthood Direct app, you can chat with a doctor or nurse from your phone and get birth control pills delivered right to your door. Thanks, technology! We’re expanding access to birth control and UTI treatment to all 50 states by the end of 2020.
At Planned Parenthood, we believe that everyone deserves to feel loved, supported, and valued. That’s why we’re proud to join PFLAG and CenterLink to bring you Q Chat Space — a digital online community where LGBTQ+ teens ages 13 to 19 can chat with like-minded peers going through similar experiences in real time.
We know that not everyone has an LGBTQ+ student group or community center easily available to them. Q Chat Space is a way for LGBTQ+ teens to connect with each other through live-chat group sessions — no matter where they are. The conversations on Q Chat Space are digital, and are run by experienced staff who work at LGBTQ+ centers around the country.
Q Chat Space aims to create an environment of learning and acceptance, where LGBTQ+ teens can make friends and build community in a safe space. Group agreements like respecting people’s identities and pronouns, keeping conversations confidential, welcoming new ideas and different perspectives, and owning up to and forgiving mistakes help make everyone’s experience welcoming and positive.
Upcoming sessions include discussions around gender identity, diversity, being out at school, trans issues, and healthy relationships.
Here’s how it works:
To learn more or to participate in a live group session, visit the Q Chat Space website.
-Attia at Planned Parenthood
If you’ve ever received health care like birth control, STD tests, or annual exams for free, at low cost, or on a sliding scale at Planned Parenthood, chances are Title X helped pay for it. Title X is the nation’s only dedicated program for affordable birth control and other preventive, reproductive health care. The program helps 4 million people each year — including over 1.5 million Planned Parenthood patients — access care they normally couldn’t. But the Trump administration just imposed a dangerous and unethical gag rule that pushed Planned Parenthood and other providers out of Title X.
Even if you don’t know whether you’ve been helped by Title X, you can take control of your health now by knowing your options. Read on to learn how to access high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care — and how to fight for everyone who could lose access.
ACT NOW TO PROTECT CARE AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
Above all, know this: Planned Parenthood staff members are doing everything to make sure all of our patients can still access care.
Currently, all Planned Parenthood health centers are open and providing services. You can still make an appointment and come to us for care. Our doors will be open today and they’ll be open tomorrow. We are fighting the gag rule in court, calling on Congress to act, and we will do everything we can to make sure our patients don’t lose care.
While we are working to make sure patients don’t lose care, the devastating gag rule will cause harmful changes. It may be harder for you to get free or low-cost preventive services at Planned Parenthood, including birth control, cancer screenings, and annual exams. Every state is affected by Title X and will be harmed by Trump’s gag rule, but the specific impact will be different state-by-state.
Pay special attention to news about Title X if you don’t have insurance, live in rural areas, are a young person, have trouble making ends meet — or if you know anyone in these groups. These people have benefited the most from Title X, and stand to get hurt the most by the gag rule.
1) Call your local Planned Parenthood health center
Use our health center locator to find the health center you want to visit, and give them a call.
2) Ask how much services cost
Once you get a Planned Parenthood representative on the phone, tell them what health care services you need and ask how much they cost. Services that Title X helps cover include birth control pills and other contraception methods, STD tests, wellness exams, and breast and cervical cancer screenings. Keep in mind that Title X only covers preventive care — not abortion services.
If the cost for your preventive care is more than you can afford, ask if you can apply to any government programs (like Medicaid) for discounted care, or if there are other ways to help cover the costs.
3) Discuss alternative options.
The Planned Parenthood representative may have information about other ways to access affordable care.
However, it’s possible that your only options will be to pay out-of-pocket at Planned Parenthood or try to find an alternate provider. If this is the case, Planned Parenthood will let you know if there are any other qualified providers where you could potentially get free or low-cost care — but they may not be easy to access.
Also be careful to avoid “crisis pregnancy centers.” These fake clinics may advertise free pregnancy tests, STD tests, and information about abortion — but they’re often run by people who are anti-abortion and anti-birth control. You can’t rely on crisis pregnancy centers to provide effective birth control methods (like the pill or IUDs), and they frequently give biased and inaccurate information about sexual and reproductive health.
Your health is important. So try not to delay or avoid getting the care you need — it can be dangerous.
Yes, this is scary. That’s why Planned Parenthood is fighting the Trump administration’s Title X gag rule in court. But your members of Congress also have the power to stop the gag rule — and you have the power to help.
The U.S. House passed a bill that would block the gag rule. Now the Senate must push for a bill that does the same. We’re asking you to help us protect sexual and reproductive health care for millions of people by calling your senators.
TELL YOUR SENATORS TO PROTECT TITLE X!
Since 1970, Title X has been an important safety net for people who would otherwise go without health care. This includes LGBTQ communities, people of color, people with low incomes, and other marginalized communities that historically have faced barriers to care. The majority of patients in the Title X program identify as Black, Hispanic, or Latinx.
The gag rule makes it illegal for any provider in the Title X program to give patients information about how or where to access abortion, even if those patients ask for an abortion referral. So, if a patient who needs an abortion goes to a provider who gets Title X funds for preventive services, the provider would have to say something like, “I can’t give you information about abortion, but here is where to get prenatal care” — even if the pregnancy puts their patient’s health at risk.
Planned Parenthood providers are committed to giving every patient the best medical care and information available. The gag rule makes it impossible for us to keep this commitment, and therefore the Trump administration has made it impossible for us to stay in Title X.
By bullying health care providers into withholding information from patients, the Trump administration is saying that people don’t have the right to make their own decisions about their health. If you’re as angry about that as we are, speak out.
Again, our doors are open.
While Planned Parenthood health centers continue to provide expert, compassionate care, we are carefully analyzing the impact that being forced out of the Title X program will have on our health centers. And we’re doing everything we can to fight for the millions of people who rely on us.
While we don’t know for certain what this will look like, it’s unrealistic to think there won’t be harmful changes. For too many patients, this will mean that birth control and reproductive health care are out of reach.
Taking away people’s reproductive health care and potentially leaving them with nowhere to turn is beyond unacceptable. It’s unconscionable, it’s dangerous, and we need your help to fight back.
Artists and musicians are stepping up and standing with Planned Parenthood to protest the extreme abortion bans sweeping the country and the attacks on our fundamental right to make decisions about our bodies. From commitments to boycott filming in Georgia, to generous donations from their tours being given to Planned Parenthood, to signing an ad against the abortion bans, these artists are challenging abortion stigma and helping change the conversation about abortion.
And together, we’re sharing our stories, reclaiming our bodies, and owning our power.
As summer comes to a close, here are some of the artists on our end-of-summer playlist who’ve stood up and spoken out to say: get your #BansOffMyBody:
Owning your body = good as hell. And we agree with Lizzo 110%: we’re capable of making our own decisions about our bodies. At this year’s VMAs, Lizzo rocked a necklace by Sophie Ratner that reads “Bans Off.”
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We got new rules and they’re all about protecting access to abortion. Shout out to Dua Lipa for showing up for the millions of people whose rights are under attack.
It’s not just abortion that’s under attack, it’s all sexual and reproductive health care. But together, we are a movement and we are unstoppable.
Girls like girls — and abortion access too, it’s nothing new. Hayley Kiyoko joined nearly 140 artists and musicians who stood up for abortion access.
Our bodies are our own. If they are not, we can not be truly free. Or equal.
All of us at Planned Parenthood will continue to provide health care for all of you. Thanks, John Legend, for speaking up for our rights!
We’re in no mood to have our rights be taken away. No way in hell. The National is banding together with us to stand up for abortion access.
When it comes to securing access to abortion for everyone, we’re not out of the woods yet. But we’re one step closer, thanks to Bon Iver and thousands of others, who are standing up to say Bans Off My Body.
“I’m proud to be standing up for Planned Parenthood as they fight for fair and equal access to reproductive rights. We cannot live freely and move fully in the world when our basic right to access the reproductive health care we need is under attack. Every person deserves the right to control their body, their life, and their future."
We all know the real bad guy is anyone who thinks they can make decisions about your body for you.
So grateful for artists like Ariana who are stepping up and spreading their generosity for Planned Parenthood and abortion funds. We’re not letting up in the fight to protect abortion access; we gotta keep breathin’ and breathin’ and continue to fight back.
We agree with Selena: stop telling us what to do with our bodies.
This is just a snapshot of the many artists who are standing with Planned Parenthood. Find out who else is banding together for abortion access and sign the petition alongside them today: bansoffmybody.org
I’m proud to be standing up for Planned Parenthood as they fight for fair and equal access to reproductive rights. We cannot live freely and move fully in the world when our basic right to access the reproductive health care we need is under attack. Every person deserves the right to control their body, their life, and their future.
Billie Eilish
Attacking Planned Parenthood patients by restricting Title X is deceptive and underhanded, because most people don’t even know that Title X is covering their care. They just know when they go to Planned Parenthood, they will be covered and they can afford it. I had no idea I was relying on Title X until this year.
Now, when patients go to Planned Parenthood, they won’t know why their birth control or cancer screenings are more expensive. They won’t know they’re paying the price for the administration’s political games. And because people of color make up the majority of Title X patients, we will be the biggest losers.
via Rolling Stone
High-resTell us about a time you received low-cost or free services from Planned Parenthood — and why you think everyone deserves access to affordable health care. Leave us a message at 646-870-4484.
Attacks on the Title X program affect real patients across the country, in every state. The Trump administration doesn’t think you deserve health care. We do. And we’re going to keep fighting for it.
Planned Parenthood is proud to be a leader in using technology and innovation to expand people’s access to information and health care. As politicians continue to restrict or block people’s access to health care across the country, Planned Parenthood is committed to breaking down barriers and reaching people wherever they are — no matter what. We hope to bring our expertise to SXSW — an annual convening of discovery, learning, and networking with creatives across the interactive, film, and music industries.
Looking for a quick and easy way to support Planned Parenthood? Help get us on stage at SXSW 2020 by voting for our panels! And please encourage your friends to vote by this Friday, 8/23!
You’ll have to create a profile in order to vote — but those five minutes will go a long way in order to help ensure that Planned Parenthood can participate in SXSW 2020.
Once you’re registered, vote for our panels (detailed below). To do this, please click the “Vote Up” icon on the left side of the page to vote for each of our 6 submissions.
Here are our proposed panels:
Brands are standing up for what they believe in now more than ever. Consumers are also demanding more from the brands with which they engage. This discussion will focus on what it looks like when a brand chooses to stand up in support of a social issue, and what it looks like when a brand misses the mark.
Shortly after the signing of the most aggressive anti-abortion law in recent American history, several progressive organizations convened a group of over 200 corporate executives from globally recognized brands to sign a powerful “Don’t Ban Equality” statement in the New York Times.
This panel will bring together the nation’s leading provider of sexual and reproductive health care and a top brand (that took a stand), moderated by a high-profile marketing and digital entrepreneur.
Music has the power to change hearts and to change minds. It has the power to change our culture, to breakdown our history, and change future behaviors. Music has always held a role in the resistance and today is no different. This panel will convene culture makers to discuss the role creators play in shifting culture.
A senior staff member from Planned Parenthood Federation of America and top entertainment manager will discuss the music industry’s role in shaping our future and how artists approach their role (and responsibility) in the resistance.
It wasn’t until 2011 that female crash course dummies were used to test car safety design. Bias baked into AI has led to darker skin not being recognized as quickly. When our unconscious biases aren’t actively addressed in product design and development, the impact can be devastating. At the same time, there’s a financial cost for companies that alienate certain groups from participating.
But some brands are stepping up to proactively combat bias, creating experiences that are more inclusive and embrace diversity. Hear from the companies leading the charge: Airbnb, Planned Parenthood, Adobe, and Work & Co will discuss strategies and tactics to inform more inclusive product development, and ensure your products can serve as many people as possible.
To provide the best possible online health care experience, digital professionals have to understand and embrace the implications of changes in access to care, from a technical and societal lens. By ensuring we build products with our Black and Latinx users in mind, we used technology and innovation to create a suite of digital tools that are useful and educational, as well as inclusive and nonjudgmental.
In this panel, digital product managers and sex educators talk through ways in which we utilize educationally sound, medically accurate, and equity-centered best practices to build understandable, affirming, and relevant products in order to help our users access the sexual and reproductive health care they need and deserve, regardless of race, gender, income, age, or ability status.
Planned Parenthood’s sex ed chatbot, Roo, lets teens anonymously ask questions about sex, relationships, puberty and more. Roo’s success (770K conversations in 5 months) stems from a judgment-free product and marketing strategy. Students participate in ongoing user testing, and help define the product since day 1. In this talk, dive in to DEI guidelines to design the bot —tone, UX, ethical AI— and go behind the scenes on a companion sex ed YouTube series with a diverse & inclusive cast.
Voting ends Friday 8/23. See you at SXSW!
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