8/19/19: Today, the Trump administration is forcing us out of the Title X program — our nation's program focused on family planning, of which we serve 40% of patients. This is a *direct attack* on Planned Parenthood and on our health and rights, and we will not stand for it.
We’re working to make sure that all patients can still get the health care they need. Contact your local health center to find out how much a service costs and ask if there are other ways to get your care covered.
We aren’t throwing in the towel and we won’t give up on our patients. Being forced out of Title X won't stop us from referring for or performing abortions, prescribing birth control, or any of our other services. Our doors are open and we are fighting against the gag rule.
The most important thing: Congress can take action to right this wrong. Make your voice heard to ensure that patients can continue to get the care they need. Stand with Planned Parenthood — we stand with you.
Call your senator at 1-202-601-3441 or text PROTECT X to 22422 to find out how you can take action.
Title X is the nation's program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care — and it's under attack. Last month, the Trump administration finalized the Title X gag rule, which bans doctors and nurses in the Title X program from referring their patients for safe, legal abortion and was designed to block people from coming to Planned Parenthood for care. Now, we're going to give everything we got to protect Title X and stop the gag rule. Join us: https://ppact.io/2TFgbaV
Nearly 40 percent of women of reproductive age in the U.S. live in counties without an abortion provider.
As clinic access shrinks, more and more women are going online to research self-induced abortions. The abortion drugs misoprostol and mifepristone are being sold illegally over the internet by foreign suppliers. While the highly safe and effective combination has been prescribed by physicians for early abortions for decades, women should be able to receive it, or other abortion services, from a licensed physician and not have to turn to an unknown supplier. Women should be able to confidently choose the type of abortion care that is right for them. But the closure of local abortion clinics is leaving them without many options.
If the last Missouri abortion clinic is forced to shut its doors, women in the state will have to consider other options. Planned Parenthood just opened a large facility in Illinois to handle an expected influx of patients from Missouri. Located 15 miles from the Missouri clinic, it will help ensure access for women living in or near St. Louis. But what about women in other parts of the state?
A woman’s access to reproductive health care in America should not depend on where she lives. But for a growing number of women in this country, it does. If federal courts and state legislatures continue to whittle away at abortion rights, that number will soar.
And it’s not just abortion access that is under siege; it’s also family planning services, including access to contraceptives. Title X-supported clinics deliver family planning services to 4 million low-income households every year, but the Trump administration is now preventing that from continuing. Its regulatory changes forced Planned Parenthood, which served 40 percent of Title X patients, to withdraw from the program. Other providers are following suit, leaving the Title X program in jeopardy.
In Missouri and many other places in this country, the clock is being turned back 50 years. Their reproductive health will suffer accordingly unless the escalating political assaults on reproductive rights stop.
The 2019 Taco and Beer Challenge is here, and we're funding abortion!
For $5 you can snag a sticker of Beer Cat (named Scotch Tape) or Taco Pug (named Pickles)!
Can't choose? Grab both for $10 USD!
100% of the profits go to the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund, which has been supporting access to abortion for 30 years in Virginia!
Free shipping on U.S. orders! $1 for international shipping!
Stickers will be mailed via letter-sized postage to minimize cost (and so we can donate more to the fund!)
These stickers will ONLY be available until September 15th or until we run out of stock.
The stickers are just as vibrant IRL as they are online. Made out of thick durable vinyl means these stickers are protected from scratches, water, AND sunlight! Could be the perfect addition to your laptop, desk, dorm room, reusable water bottle, and more!
Following the Title X change to, more or less, stop federal funding to any hospital providing abortions OR information about where to receive abortions...
Boy, I sure am so glad to hear my tax dollars won’t go towards funding abortions anymore. That money is better spent in the defense fund to build weapons to kill people with, I say!
