Planned Parenthood is a very controversial topic right now. Many individuals are against Planned Parenthood because it's an organization that offers abortion procedures. Whether you're pro-life or pro-choice however, you should know that abortion procedures are just a fraction of the services Planned Parenthood offers. Here are 24 services provided by Planned Parenthood, many of which are free.
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1. Birth Control
Planned Parenthood offers a variety of birth control methods. These include a birth control pill, implant, patch, shot, sponge, vaginal ring, and cervical cap.
2. Birth Control for Men
Planned Parenthood has detailed descriptions and information on men's 5 birth control options, abstinence, condoms, outercourse, vasectomy, and withdrawal.
3. Contraception
Including male and female condoms, Planned Parenthood also provides the morning-after pill as well as Tubal Sterilization and Vasectomy surgeries. Tubal Sterilization is surgery done on a female's fallopian tubes resulting in the inability to become pregnant. A vasectomy surgery is done on a male's vas deferens, resulting in the inability to ejaculate sperm and thus the inability to impregnate a woman.
4. Information on Abstinence
By offering advantages, disadvantages, communication techniques with partners, and other information, Planned Parenthood offers the knowledge you need to decide if abstinence is the right choice for you.
5. Anemia Testing
Anemia is a deficiency of red blood cells causing dizziness, fatigue, and can result in an abnormal heart rate.
7. Cholesterol Screening
8. Diabetes Screening
9. Physical Exams
10. Flu Vaccines
11. Help with Quitting Smoking
12. High Blood Pressure Screening
13. Tetanus Vaccines
14. Thyroid Screening
15. Breast Exams
16. Mammograms
17. Pelvic Exam
18. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Treatment
19. Information and Education on Men's Health
Planned Parenthood provides education on testicular cancer and male infertility.
20. Information and Education on Women's Health
Including education on cervical cancer, endometriosis, female infertility, menopause, menstruation, ovarian cancer, yeast infections, and vaginitis.
21. Information and Education on Pregnancy
Planned Parenthood offers pregnancy tests as well as information for couples or individuals considering pregnancy, pre-pregnancy health, pregnancy options, prenatal care, miscarriages, infertility and the zika virus. Planned Parenthood also provides education for those wondering how pregnancy happens.
22. Relationship Advice and Education
Planned Parenthood supports healthy and happy relationships. They offer education on how to have a good relationship, how to end a relationship, as well as education on sexual and reproductive control. Sexual control is when an individual makes another individual do something sexually even though they didn't want to, while reproductive control is when an individual messes with someone else's birth control.
23. Sexuality and Gender Information
Including reproductive and sexual anatomy education, information on sexual pleasure, masturbation, sexual activity, gender identity, sexual orientation and trans identities.
24. STD Testing
Information on and testing for STDs such as, Chancroid, Chlamydia, Genital Warts, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis B, Herpes, HIV/AIDS, Human Papillomavirus, Mollescum Contagiosum, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Pubic Lice (Crabs), Scabies, Syphilis,and Trichomoniasis (Trich).
All of this information and more can be found on PlannedParenthood.org
