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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a women's health care that provides STD/STI prevention and treatment, contraception, cervical cancer screenings, and abortions for unready mothers. The ethical argument is in the morality of abortion and for some extra conservative people, the morality of contraception. Some believe life begin at conception, so aborting a fetus is killing a child. Those same people are trying to stop funding Planned Parenthood, while others argue that it does more good than harm.

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As the President of the United States, he supports maintaining the funding of planned parenthood and supports legislation protecting it.

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He is a spokesperson for the PPFA as well as a Senior Councilman for the PPFA.

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She is the Chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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She is the President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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This political cartoon mocks republicans, because they look tired and miserable with their child, but they could have prevented it with planned parenthood.

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This political cartoon is mocking democrats, since they want to take measures to save lives with gun control, but support abortion.

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WASHINGTON - Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions. The measure takes effect two days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

The rule was proposed three months ago, when many Democrats assumed the next president would be Hillary Clinton; she presumably would have promoted the rule's completion if it were still pending. It requires that state and local governments distribute federal funds for services related to contraception, sexually transmitted infections, fertility, pregnancy care, and breast and cervical cancer screening to qualified health providers, regardless of whether they also perform abortions.

Mr. Trump has sent mixed messages on Planned Parenthood's work, supporting its health-related services other than abortion. Yet with backing from Republican leaders in Congress, he has indicated he will undo many Obama administration rules and regulations, especially last-minute additions. In this case, however, unraveling the new rule would first require a time-consuming process, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The department began the rule-making effort in September after more than a dozen Republican-dominated states moved in recent years to "defund" Planned Parenthood by blocking clinics from receiving public money. Those funds included so-called Title X money - named for the federal family-planning program - as well as Medicaid reimbursements for treating low-income patients.

Federal law already prohibits government funding for abortion, except in cases of rape or incest, or to save a woman's life. But anti-abortion groups and politicians in a number of states have sought to ban any public payments to abortion providers even for unrelated health services.

State courts have ruled against such restrictions specifically for Medicaid reimbursements, citing the legal right of low-income beneficiaries to seek care where they choose. And the Obama administration warned in April that all states withholding Medicaid payments from Planned Parenthood affiliates would be "out of compliance with federal law."

But Title X family-planning money is a separate matter. Grants go directly to states and nongovernmental organizations, which then distribute money among health care providers seeking funds for such services. The new rule says that states cannot withhold money from potential recipients for any reason unrelated to their ability to provide the family-planning services.

"This rule will strengthen access to essential services like cancer screenings and contraception for some of the most vulnerable patients in this country," Dr. Karen A. Scott, chief medical officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement.

Dr. Scott added that "public comments showed overwhelming support for finalizing the rule" - 91 percent of the roughly 145,000 responses received since September, according to department officials.

The 30-page rule was posted on Wednesday morning on the website of the Federal Register, the government's official journal. It will not take effect, however, until Jan. 18, 30 days after the rule appears in the paper version of the Register.

According to the department, repealing the rule would require a new rule-making process, or a joint resolution of disapproval by the House and Senate, with concurrence by the new president.

Advocates of reproductive rights acknowledged that prospect was a real one. "This fight is not over," Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation, said in a statement.

Anti-abortion groups urged the president-elect to rescind the rule "immediately after taking office," as Steven H. Aden, senior counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, put it in a statement.

Republicans in Congress and state legislatures have singled out Planned Parenthood for years because its network is the single largest provider of abortions, though about half of affiliated clinics do not perform them. The effort to starve Planned Parenthood of funding picked up in mid-2015, after anti-abortion activists began posting videos online that surreptitiously recorded local Planned Parenthood officials and were heavily edited to suggest their affiliates were illegally profiting from selling fetal parts to scientific researchers.

Anti-abortion lawmakers have argued that community health centers can provide the care that is now provided to many low-income and uninsured people by Planned Parenthood. But groups representing those centers have disputed that. They say the centers are already overtaxed, and, because they treat health issues of all kinds, are often unable to provide the full range of family-planning services that Planned Parenthood offers.

About 10 percent of health centers that receive Title X family-planning money are Planned Parenthood affiliates. But they treat about one-third of all patients receiving such services, according to records.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: Obama Shields Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Obama Bars States From Denying Federal Money to Planned Parenthood

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WASHINGTON - Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other health clinics that provide abortions. The measure takes effect two days before the Jan.

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LOS ANGELES - With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health of American women.

It is regrettable, but not surprising, that Mr. Trump has nominated a strident opponent of abortion. It is also no surprise that Mr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, earned a zero rating from Planned Parenthood, an organization he'd like to defund, despite its role in providing preventive health services.

What may jolt even those who supported Mr. Trump is the extremity of Mr. Price's views on women's health. In Congress, he opposed a law that would protect women in Washington, D.C., from employment discrimination based on their decision to use birth control or have an abortion. He was a co-sponsor of legislation that would have defined life as beginningat conception, inviting arguments that common forms of birth control constitute a murder weapon.

So far, critics of Mr. Price's nomination have focused on his plans to abolish the Affordable Care Act. While that is unlikely to happen, the program's provisions for contraception and other services that women disproportionately use will be early and easy targets. Family planning services have long been a focus of Republican ire, and since the requirement to cover them appears in an administrative rule, rather than in a statute, Mr. Price's agency could overturn it by issuing a countervailing rule.

Family planning services are part of Obamacare's preventive care strategy. The law requires virtually all insurance plans to cover preventive health services like immunization and blood-pressure screening, depression and other health problems. It also forbids charging fees beyond the premiums - co-payments, coinsurance or deductibles - for this care.

Responding to evidence that health plans did not sufficiently take into account women's unique health needs, the law included preventive care for women on this list of required coverage. But instead of listing every covered service in the act itself, the law left that task to regulators in the Department of Health and Human Services. They, in turn, relied on a study based on a review by the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) that recommended several categories of services: well-woman visits, screening for gestational diabetes, counseling for sexually transmitted infections, breast-feeding support, screening and counseling for domestic violence, and - most at risk of repeal now - contraceptive methods and counseling.

Recognizing that contraceptive services is a sensitive cultural and political issue, the Obama administration exempted houses of worship from the coverage requirement and created an accommodation for religious nonprofits. This requirement spurred litigation that ended up in the Supreme Court twice and resulted in some for-profit businesses' being able to opt out of the requirement, too.

Such care goes beyond reproductive health. The only doctor many women see regularly is a gynecologist, and in 35 states OB/GYNs can be a woman's Medicaid primary care provider.

Moreover, 62 percent of all women of reproductive age use a contraceptive method, and 99 percent of women ages 15 to 44 who have ever had sexual intercourse have used at least one contraceptive method. In contrast, only 18 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 64 visit an emergency room at least once each year. Yet no one doubts the importance of emergency coverage.

Obamacare did not invent the use of legal mandates to cover contraception. Before its enactment, 28 states required contraception coverage, and 85 percent of large employers provided it. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission declared in 2000 that any health plan that covered drugs, devices and preventive care but that did not cover contraceptives violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.

So even if the new health secretary were to repeal the law's contraceptive coverage requirement, many insurance plans would still cover it. But state contraceptive coverage mandates don't reach everyone, and they don't address costs. Women in the 22 states without a mandate or working for the employers that did not cover contraception before the Affordable Care Act would have to pay the full cost on their own.

Women know what is at stake. That is why they have been rushing to see their doctors and to fill prescriptions before Mr. Trump takes office in January.

Paradoxically, cutting women's health care services is contrary to Republican goals. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's health plan states, "Prevention requires efforts and investments today that are expected to provide long-term cost savings and other benefits." That is exactly what covering contraception does: provide women significant benefits to their health and socioeconomic status, while in many cases saving money for the health care system over all. Voters understand this. A majority of people, including two-thirds of women, support private health plans' covering the full cost of birth control.

Mr. Trump himself has said, America needs "a patient-centered health care system that promotes choice, quality and affordability." Women will be better off if the president-elect and his health and human services secretary follow this advice.

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Opinion | How Donald Trump's Health Secretary Pick Endangers Women

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LOS ANGELES - With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health of American women. It is regrettable, but not surprising, that Mr. Trump has nominated a strident opponent of abortion.

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WASHINGTON - In a sign of abortion opponents' newfound clout in the capital, Kellyanne Conway, the Republican strategist who led Donald J. Trump to victory and will serve as his White House counselor, will speak at a major anti-abortion march here the week after his inaugural.

Ms. Conway, 49, made history in November as the first woman to manage a successful presidential campaign. She has long been an outspoken foe of abortion, and she could become the first sitting White House official to address the annual march in person, though both Mr. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence have been invited.

"It's an incredible gesture for pro-life Americans," said Marilyn Musgrave, a Republican former congresswoman from Colorado, now the top lobbyist for Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group here. Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said of Ms. Conway: "She's one of us."

This will be the 44th year of the march, which organizers say is typically attended by tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists. The annual event, often held on Jan. 22 but pushed back to Jan. 27 this year because of the inaugural, marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing a national right to abortion.

Neither Ms. Conway nor Trump transition officials responded to requests for comment on Wednesday. But Jeanne Mancini, the March for Life president, hinted in an interview Wednesday that Mr. Trump or Mr. Pence, or both, might attend.

"Stay tuned," she said.

No president or vice president has attended the march, though Ronald Reagan sent a video in 1988, and George W. Bush addressed marchers from the East Room of the White House in 2008.

Quick-witted, confident and comfortable on television, Ms. Conway, a mother of four, was a powerful force in driving women to vote for Mr. Trump; in one election surprise, 53 percent of white women did, according to exit polls. As the highest-ranking woman in the new administration, she holds powerful appeal for Republicans in general, and women especially.

"I don't think it can be underestimated how significant her presence on the Trump campaign was in terms of motivating and mobilizing the pro-life vote," said Charmaine Yoest, a longtime anti-abortion advocate here, in an interview.

Abortion foes are looking to make big policy gains in Washington under Mr. Trump, who as a candidate signed a letter agreeing to four of the movement's central demands, including appointing conservative Supreme Court justices and enacting a permanent ban on taxpayer-financed abortions. Already, states like Ohio are rolling back abortion rights.

Ilyse Hogue, the president of Naral Pro-Choice America, said in a recent interview that abortion rights advocates see themselves "standing on the edge of a very dark time." Ms. Musgrave happily agreed; she said she spent Wednesday on Capitol Hill, at a closed-door conference with Republican leaders who are planning strategy, including stripping funding from Planned Parenthood.

"It's a great time to be pro-life," Ms. Musgrave said.

Ms. Conway will not be the only speaker. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, is also scheduled to attend, as is Benjamin Watson, a tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, Karyme Lozano, a Mexican TV star and Abby Johnson, a former clinic director at Planned Parenthood who later became an anti-abortion activist.

But, short of Mr. Trump or Mr. Pence, Ms. Conway is the march's biggest "get." She is a well-known figure here in Washington who tends to arouse the ire of liberal women who consider themselves feminists - and has been caricatured on "Saturday Night Live" - which is one reason anti-abortion women like Ms. Yoest find her both sympathetic and effective.

During the 2012 presidential primary season, while advising Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker then running for the Republican nomination, she ripped into Mitt Romney, who eventually became the party's nominee, for waffling on the issue, saying in an interview that he did not "seem comfortable in his own skin."

At the time, Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was promising a "pro-life presidency." But in 1994, while running for Senate, he said he thought abortion should be "safe and legal," and in 2002, as a candidate for governor, he had sought the backing of abortion rights advocates. Ms. Conway wasted little time in calling him out on the inconsistencies.

"The emperor has no policy clothes," she warned, "and it's costing him on this issue."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A16 of the New York edition with the headline: Strategist Who Helped Manage Trump's Win Will Speak at a Major Anti-Abortion March. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Kellyanne Conway, Who Managed Trump to Win, Will Speak at Anti-Abortion March

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WASHINGTON - In a sign of abortion opponents' newfound clout in the capital, Kellyanne Conway, the Republican strategist who led Donald J. Trump to victory and will serve as his White House counselor, will speak at a major anti-abortion march here the week after his inaugural.

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Whoopi Goes Nuts When Presented With Planned Parenthood Facts

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Friday morning on ABC's The View, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Jedediah Bila fought over Republicans' plan to defund Planned Parenthood when they repeal Obamacare. While Bila tried to present the pro-life position, Whoopi exploded in anger and frustration every time Bila spoke. Whoopi was all over the place, discounting things she disagreed with without actually making a counter-argument.

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Planned Parenthood prepares to fight: VICE News Tonight on HBO (Full Segment)

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With two avowed supporters of the anti-abortion movement set to take the White House in just 63 days, Planned Parenthood will have to prepare for deep cuts and open hostility. Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani went to Washington D.C. where Planned Parenthood's leadership met behind closed doors to mount its counter-attack.

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Debunking Planned Parenthood's "3%" Abortion Myth

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Planned Parenthood claims abortion is only 3% of what they do and that their priority is "women's health care." But does their math add up?

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A new animated short film shared by millennial news brand NowThis recounts the history of Planned Parenthood in honor of its centennial, using the voices of prominent actors to talk about major moments.
The film, 100 Years, is produced by Lena Dunham, the Golden Globe Award-winning creator and star of HBO's Girls and co-founder of LennyLetter.com, in association with Lena and Jenni Konner's A Casual Romance Productions. The film is narrated by Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Lena Dunham, Gina Rodriguez, Mindy Kaling, America Ferrera, Constance Wu, Amy Schumer, Hari Nef, Andrew Rannells, Sasheer Zamata, and Tessa Thompson, as well as Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

We are so excited about 100 Years, which shows how Planned Parenthood has helped lead massive change in women's health and empowered millions of people worldwide to make informed health decisions, transforming the way they live, love, learn and work.

For 100 years, women and families have counted on Planned Parenthood. Politicians may try to shut us down, but we will fight to keep our doors open - while continuing to provide expert, affordable health care to millions of people each year. We will not rest until access to health care and rights is a reality for all people.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America

The film highlights major moments from Planned Parenthood's history, including why Margaret Sanger began providing birth control information; the decisions in the Supreme Court cases Griswold v. Connecticut and , which legalized birth control and abortion in America; the emergence of the devastating and discriminatory Hyde Amendment; and the Planned Parenthood of today.

100 Years was animated by Kirsten Lepore, executive produced by Emmy Award-winning director J.J. Abrams, along with Katie McGrath and Andrew Lee, in conjunction with Jenni Konner and Ericka Naegle, produced by Lena Dunham and Natalie Berkus, and written by Alex Ronan. The film also features original music by J.J. Abrams and Grammy Award-winning musician and singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff.

Our goal was to create a piece of art that can educate Americans not just about what Planned Parenthood does but on the battles that have been fought in order to get here.

We are now tasked with embodying the spirit of these fighters once more. I am so grateful for my remarkable collaborators, who are strong enough to speak out for what is right and use their talents to change the status quo.

This film reminds us of the tremendous progress that's been made for women's health and rights just days before the new president is inaugurated - and at a moment when extreme politicians are trying to defund and shut down Planned Parenthood. This would create a national health disaster and deny millions of people - nearly half of whom are people of color, and many people who live in rural areas - access to the cancer screenings, birth control, STD and HIV testing and treatment, and other care they rely on each year.

More than half of Planned Parenthood's health centers are in rural or underserved areas. Without Planned Parenthood, many patients would have nowhere else to go for lifesaving and life-empowering care.

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New Star-Studded Animated Film: 100 Years: the Story of Planned Parenthood

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A new animated short film produced by Lena Dunham and shared by NowThis recounts the history of Planned Parenthood. The film is narrated by Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Lena Dunham, Gina Rodriguez, Mindy Kaling, America Ferrera, Constance Wu, Amy Schumer, Hari Nef, Andrew Rannells, Sasheer Zamata, and Tessa Thompson, as well as Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

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March 3, 2016 ( POP) -- Of the many issues debated about perennially, few have the potential to save lives like defunding nation's number one abortion provider-Planned Parenthood.

Defunding Planned Parenthood could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. In 2013 alone (FY2013), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the U.S. affiliate of Planned Parenthood, claimed the lives of 327,653 unborn children. Planned Parenthood stops 37 beating hearts every hour.

Planned Parenthood's abortion business relies heavily on funding from the American taxpayer. According to the GAO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America spent nearly $325 million federal taxpayer dollars between 2010 and 2012. Over the same time period, PPFA received an additional $1.2 billion dollars through federal and state reimbursements under the auspices of health care programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP).

In total, 43% of Planned Parenthood's revenue comes from American taxpayers. Prohibiting federal funding for an organization that terminates the lives of one-third of a million children every year could go a long way to reducing the organization's capacity to carry out abortions in the United States.

But Planned Parenthood is not only active here in the States. Planned Parenthood Federation of America's parent organization, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has a network that spans the entire globe.

IPPF affiliates promote abortion on-demand in nearly every country on earth. In 2014, IPPF spent over $137 million promoting abortion worldwide. In many of the countries where IPPF is active (particularly in Africa and Latin America) abortion is illegal in all or most cases.

A new map from the Population Research Institute shows how much money IPPF spends in each country around the world.

IPPF receives generous of funding from the U.S. Government. From 2010 to 2012, IPPF received over $26 million federal taxpayer dollars from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

While federal funding for IPPF is far less than PPFA, it should be noted that IPPF funding goes exclusively to Planned Parenthood affiliates outside of the United States. In essence, IPPF funding is foreign aid. While USAID, the agency primarily responsible for U.S. foreign assistance, is funded by less than 1% of the federal budget, funding to IPPF accounts for over 2% of federal disbursements to Planned Parenthood.

Contrary to the American ideals of tolerance and respect of other cultures, IPPF regularly lobbies and pressures the elected governments of foreign countries to change their laws on abortion, typically through funding a local organization to do so on their behalf.

Recently it was discovered that IPPF funded a local organization in El Salvador to pressure the government into legalizing abortion. The vast majority of Salvadorans are pro-life-only 2% of the population finds abortion morally acceptable.

IPPF is one of the world's most deadly abortion organizations. In 2014 alone, IPPF terminated the lives of over 1.1 million unborn children-more than twice the number of abortions committed by PPFA alone in any given year.

Contrary to what pro-abortion advocates claim, millions of women are not helped by Planned Parenthood. Rather, Planned Parenthood terminates the lives of millions of future women (and men) before they can even draw their first breath.

Let us speak up for those who never get the chance to speak for themselves.
Reprinted with permission from Population Research Institute.

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March 3, 2016 ( POP) -- Of the many issues debated about perennially, few have the potential to save lives like defunding nation's number one abortion provider-Planned Parenthood. Defunding Planned Parenthood could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. In 2013 alone (FY2013), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the U.S.

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Editorial Observer

AKRON, Ohio - A nurse took Tiara Thurman's blood pressure at the Planned Parenthood health center in Akron. Ms. Thurman, 24, was at the clinic this week to get Depo-Provera, an injectable form of birth control that works for three months. The nurse asked Ms. Thurman about her family history, allergies and history of surgeries and pregnancy - she has a daughter, now 2. The nurse offered Ms. Thurman free condoms.

After that, a nurse practitioner came in to ask a few more questions and administer the shot. Looking through Ms. Thurman's medical history, the nurse practitioner said Ms. Thurman was young and healthy.

"Young and tired," Ms. Thurman joked.

The shot, in the hip, is quick. "One, two, three, big poke!" said the nurse practitioner. "Sorry, dear. All done."

State budget cuts to Planned Parenthood, signed into law last month by Gov. John Kasich, won't affect the organization's ability to provide birth control to women like Ms. Thurman. But they could put a stop to a Planned Parenthood program that provides free testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. And the organization might have to stop offering sex education to teenagers in the juvenile justice system and foster care, and home visits to new moms to help prevent infant mortality.

These programs were paid for by grants from the Ohio Department of Health, which is barred under the new law from giving grants to any group that "performs or promotes" abortions. The law is one of many efforts across the country to cut off state money to Planned Parenthood, efforts that could become more common - and more successful - if a Republican, like Mr. Kasich, wins the presidency in November.

The Akron health center does not provide abortions, though it does refer patients to abortion clinics elsewhere. The staff also makes referrals for prenatal care and adoption services.

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A demonstration against defunding Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Credit Eric Albrecht/Columbus Dispatch, via Associated Press

"We're proud of all the services we offer, including abortion services, but it's important for people to understand the entire landscape of Planned Parenthood," said Kelly Novak, director of education and outreach for Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.

Many don't. Harriet Schaefer, who has worked for Planned Parenthood for 30 years and is now the practice manager of the Akron center, said opponents ignore the other services and focus single-mindedly on abortion. "That's all you hear: We're going to defund Planned Parenthood because of abortion," she said. "What you just defunded was education."

It's no surprise if people have misconceptions about Planned Parenthood, since the group was the target last summer of a campaign of lies by the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group that accused the organization of selling fetal tissue for profit. Multiple investigations have found no evidence of this.

Ms. Schaefer said that more than 200 protesters showed up at the clinic in a single day after the release of hidden-camera videos purporting to show discussions of fetal tissue sales, though the clinic generally draws few protesters.

State legislators eagerly bought the lies and stripped Planned Parenthood of funding. They say patients can get health services elsewhere. But, said State Representative Dan Ramos, a Democrat, Planned Parenthood was awarded state grants because it could provide the most service for the least money. Reallocating the grants to other organizations essentially ensures inefficiency and more limited services. And it's bad for patients who have to find new health care providers.

"If someone doesn't know where to turn," Mr. Ramos said, "they know that Planned Parenthood provides a service that they might need."

For Ms. Thurman, Planned Parenthood means ease, convenience, openness. "Anything you need, they can help you with," she said. "I like it here."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A22 of the New York edition with the headline: What Planned Parenthood Really Does. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Opinion | What Planned Parenthood Really Does

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Editorial Observer AKRON, Ohio - A nurse took Tiara Thurman's blood pressure at the Planned Parenthood health center in Akron. Ms. Thurman, 24, was at the clinic this week to get Depo-Provera, an injectable form of birth control that works for three months.

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Gift of Reproductive Rights The Daily Show

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The Daily Show - The Gift of Reproductive Rights

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Desi Lydic finds out how American women are preparing to lose access to birth control and emergency contraceptives under the Trump administration. Watch full episodes of The Daily Show now -- no login required: http://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/full-episodes The Daily Show with Trevor Noah airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.