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Planned Parenthood—those are two words that have always made the hair on the back of one’s neck rise a little bit. For many women, Planned Parenthood played a major role in some of the most difficult, formative moments of their lives. I, personally, went there as a teen several times—once when I wanted to go on the pill but didn’t want my parents to know I was having sex, a second time when I feared I had contracted something from oral sex, and a third time just to keep a friend company who was getting a pregnancy test. It’s a place that has helped many women through times that nobody else would help them through, and yet, there can’t seem to be a general, nation-wide consensus that it is, essentially, good. Since the organization is receiving a lot of media attention right now—negative and positive—let’s look at some facts you probably didn’t know about Planned Parenthood.
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They go where other doctors won’t
Planned Parenthood focuses on setting up clinics in areas that are medically underserved. They provide essential services to residents of neighborhoods who would otherwise need to travel far to get them.
