Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc.

This week is #NationalNursesWeek, and Planned Parenthood Arizona is saying “thank you” to the compassionate and skilled nurses and physician’s assistants who work every day to keep patients in our communities healthy to ensure they have access to the full range of reproductive health care options, including birth control, testing and treatment for STls, and medically-accurate sexual health information. 🫂 Our work would not be possible without the expertise, compassion, leadership, and bravery of our clinicians! 💛

Abortion Care Packages have been delivered to our Health Centers in Glendale and Tempe.💙 Tucson, you’re up next! We would like to thank everyone who donated from our Wishlist: https://lnkd.in/gm6bz2P9 —your generosity means the world! These Abortion Care Packages, assembled by our amazing volunteers for our incredible doulas, help make each patients experience more supported and more powerful. 🫂 #PatientExperienceWeek

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Outside of the climate space, I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve on the Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. Board of Directors. As a young high school student, Planned Parenthood provided me with the knowledge and skills I needed to make informed choices for my sexual health that I still carry with me today. Every day, our staff work tirelessly to provide compassionate and high-quality healthcare against the backdrop of constant attacks on our reproductive rights. Please join me in raising money for PPAZ this Arizona Gives Day. Your contribution would mean a lot to me, and more so for our patients. Those dollars go directly to our health centers and keep our care affordable. Now more than ever, you can make a difference with your donation and help us continue to provide the best care, no matter what.

IT’S AZ GIVES DAY! 🧡 No matter how you choose to support your local Planned Parenthood, your generosity makes a real impact on your community and those who rely on essential care. Every contribution helps build a healthier, more inclusive future. Show your support for PPAZ today! 💙 #AZGivesDay Donate now through: https://lnkd.in/gF-XWaQC

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth by learning about Black History.💜 Meet Byllye Y. Avery (1937-), the founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a trailblazer in women’s health for over 45 years, and thought leader in reproductive justice. She began her work on women’s health and reproductive rights in the late 1960s. Prior to the passage of Roe v. Wade, she helped women access abortion care by helping them find a way to New York, where abortions were safe and legal. In 1974 (after Roe v. Wade passed), she co-founded the Gainesville Women’s Health Center, an early abortion provider in Gainesville, Florida. Four years later, in the same city, she co-founded Birthplace, a midwifery birthing center. In 1983, Avery founded the National Black Women’s Health Project during a conference being held at Spelman College in Atlanta. Prior to founding the Imperative, Avery had been active in the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN), an organization dedicated to addressing women's reproductive health and wellness. In this work, Avery noticed that Black women's needs and concerns were consistently being marginalized and ignored. Avery and her co-activists created the Project/Imperative to address the lack of attention being paid to Black women's health issues. Today and always, we value her work in this movement. ✊ #BLHM #ByllyeAvery #LGBTQ #QueerHistory . Source: ACLU Maine . Quote: “Women’s groups have got to start getting together. Get yourselves together, start doing your organizing. We have to have them all over the country, in every city, every town has got to have it. Every place. You just have to do it,” (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society).

Arizona Health Care Providers File Lawsuit Challenging Abortion Ban and To Resume Providing Care Across the State Arizona health care providers filed a lawsuit today challenging a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is in violation of the state’s new constitutional amendment protecting the fundamental right to abortion. Read Full Release Here: https://lnkd.in/gZniZivG Dr. Jill Gibson, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. shared, "Arizonans resoundingly voted to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution when they voted YES on Prop 139 and made it clear they do not support bans on abortion. Our community deserves the right to make our own decisions about our bodies and our health. And Planned Parenthood Arizona will not stop fighting for our patients and our health care staff.” Join us in expanding access to abortion care in Arizona. We have multiple openings across the state for Physician - Abortion Providers. Physician - Abortion Provider, Tempe: https://lnkd.in/eBz_VAYy Physician - Abortion Provider, Glendale: https://lnkd.in/eX9EKXF6 Physician - Abortion Provider, Tucson: https://lnkd.in/ep7UHVqU Physician - Abortion Provider, Flagstaff: https://lnkd.in/euHP2SPm

Here’s how your gift to Planned Parenthood Arizona makes a difference: STI testing. Birth control. Safe, legal abortion. Breast cancer screenings. Help us provide all that and more to thousands of patients by making a #GivingTuesday gift now 💙: https://lnkd.in/gYkSuS4N