Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest announced Wednesday it will open a health center in Meridian at 2112 E. Franklin Road in late April.
The new Meridian health center will offer a full range of reproductive health care, including affordable access to birth control, well-woman visits, breast and cervical cancer screening, emergency contraception, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, abortion services and comprehensive sexual health education and information.
According to Planned Parenthood, Idaho is ranked 22 out of 50 states in access to contraceptive services. Planned Parenthood says the new Meridian center will increase access to reproductive health care.
“We are really grateful that we’ll be able to see more patients who need affordable, quality health care in the expanding Treasure Valley community,” said Rebecca Poedy, chief operating officer at PPGNW, in a press release. “PPGNW determined that another health center was needed, in addition to our Boise center on State Street, to better serve patients seeking reproductive health care. With easy freeway access, the Meridian location will be much more convenient for clients who live in the southwestern part of the Treasure Valley.”
The Meridian center will initially be opened three days a week and will expand hours as needed. To make an appointment at any of PPGNW’s Idaho health centers call 1-800-230-PLAN or visit www.ppgnw.org.
Pro-choice rage in 3… 2… 1…
… meant to say “pro-life.” Then again, I am sure this blog will be filled with rage of all varieties at some point.
You had it right, if you have ever been to a pro choice (pro death) rally, you would have seen rage.
I don’t believe pro-choice automatically equals death. To me, it’s not a bunch of lawmakers telling me what to do. I believe pro-choice means a woman and her doctor make a choice – no one else.
I’ll agree that pro-choice does not automatically equal death. Personally, I’m pro-life, but I think it’s important for someone to make a decision that best suits them, whether it’s in-line with my belief is irrelevant. Just make sure whatever decision you make, is what the mother AND the father rationally believe is best for them. You shouldn’t let the thoughts and feelings of loved ones, doctors, friends, etc sway your decision. This is not to say, don’t listen to their advice.
Yea. It’s all about choice.
The question is, when do you make the “choice”?
After a baby? After a heartbeat? If so, then what exactly is that “choice”? A “choice” of death?
Good!
Pro-choice is not just between “a woman and her doctor” as Time Magazine has recently tried to argue. It is between a woman, her doctor, and the government. Last year Planned Parenthood recieved over $500,000,000 in taxpayer dollars from the government. Let’s not pretend the government isn’t involved in the choice.
“The new Meridian health center will offer a full range of reproductive health care, including affordable access to birth control, well-woman visits, breast and cervical cancer screening, emergency contraception, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, abortion services and comprehensive sexual health education and information.”
Should actually read “will offer a full range of mostly abortion services, and occasionally health care……..”
You can’t dispute that, it’s in their own annual reports!
Please tell me this is within sight of Chuck Winder’s house.
God will not be mocked. Abortion is murder. Tearing a babies limbs apart is not healthcare.Go to babiesaremurderedhere.com or abolishhumanabortion.com
I have never witnessed a Pro-lifer raging, but I have been in the firing line of very mean-spirited Pro-choicers–in person and on the Internet. Learning of PP moving into Meridian will sadden most Pro-lifers not enrage. We are sorry that more innocent babies will lose their lives and their mother’s will be scarred. You can make a baby go away for $500, but a mother cannot erase the memory that she allowed some doctor who couldn’t make it in a legit medical practice kill her baby. That doctor might also kill her. Just google about all of the women who are dying because of botched abortions. Eighteen years ago I had an unplanned pregnancy, and I know the fear that accompanies one. I’m just glad that I didn’t succumb to that fear. I would have aborted my best friend and confident.
If this is the sort of thing you say when you’re sad, I’d hate to hear what you say when you’re enraged.
Please point out which part of my comment seems rage-like. It would be good to know.