Inside Planned Parenthood

Death, Sex & Money

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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What happens inside Planned Parenthood has long been at the center of a raging political debate in the U.S. But we don't often hear from the patients who rely on their clinics for care. This episode was originally broadcast in 2016. Sign up for our newsletter by going to deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and every Wednesday we'll send you behind-the-scenes updates, podcast listening recommendations, and some pretty incredible listener letters from our inbox. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:13.2	Hey, this is Anna. A note about this episode. We first put it out in 2016, after we set up recording equipment in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brooklyn and asked people what brought you in today. You'll notice a lot of the Planned Parenthood patients we talked to were there for basic reproductive
0:18.0	health care, not abortions.
0:20.6	Since we put out this episode, there's been a big change in how Planned Parenthood pays for that care.
0:26.0	The Trump administration banned clinics from receiving Title 10 federal funding,
0:31.0	money that covers things like STI treatment, cancer
0:34.6	screenings, and contraception for low-income patients, if those clinics also
0:39.4	provide abortions or referrals for abortions, with a few narrow exceptions.
0:44.7	In response, Planned Parenthood stopped taking those federal funds altogether.
0:50.3	Roe versus Wade was decided 47 years ago this month and Americans remain evenly
0:55.9	split on abortion rights.
0:58.2	In a 2018 Gallup survey, 48% of Americans identified as pro-choice, 48% as pro-life.
1:05.9	How that divide on abortion plays out in our politics has become familiar and predictable.
1:12.2	Behind that public debate, though,
1:14.0	are private stories that we hear a lot less frequently.
1:18.0	Here again are some of them
1:20.0	from Planned Parenthood patients that we met
1:22.0	at that clinic in Brooklyn.
1:24.9	Usually when you press the number six on the elevator, you get like the side eye from people.
1:30.2	Like Planned Parenthood equals abortion, baby killers, like, I don't know what people think goes on in here.
1:37.0	This is death, sex, and money.
1:43.4	We need to be defunding Planned Parenthood,
1:45.1	not only state by state, but I think across the country.
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