At Planned Parenthood, we are committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate reproductive health care to everyone who walks through our doors, no matter what. As a women’s health advocate, I am deeply concerned with President-elect Trump’s decision to appoint Dr. Tom Price as his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
If appointed, Dr. Price has pledged to prevent individuals covered by Medicaid from receiving care at Planned Parenthood health centers; which would cut off access to life-saving services such as birth control, sexually transmitted infection screenings, and breast and cervical cancer screenings for millions of women.
Planned Parenthood patients are concerned about what appointments like Tom Price will mean for their access to no-copay contraception. That’s why we have seen a huge increase in requests for long-acting birth control methods like IUDs since Election Day.