"The PP & Me: Why We All Need Planned Parenthood"
I love this essay about Planned Parenthood — one girl traces her experiences with Planned Parenthood from her teens until now. Planned Parenthood gets a bad reputation as an abortion provider, but abortion only comprises 3% of their services. They also provide access to affordable yearly exams, birth control and STI testing. As a nation, we can’t afford to see Planned Parenthood close. We really can’t.
“But even in those crowded Planned Parenthoods I felt comfortable. Like they were on my side, and whatever I said wouldn’t be judged, because PP is Liberal, right? With a capital L. I guess it’s how people feel when they go into Subway or Starbucks in a new town — ‘I know this, I know what to do here.’ The comfort of knowing that this has always been here, exactly the same every time in every place, and will never go away. Unless, I guess, it does.”
