laverne cox interviews cecile richards

in interview magazine:

COX: Speaking of LGBT rights, health care for trans people is a huge issue for me. How has Planned Parenthood worked to accommodate trans folks and trans health care?

RICHARDS: It's a growing area of health care for Planned Parenthood around the country. What we're seeing, I can say in the last couple of years, is just an explosion of access. It's only going to continue to grow. The other thing that is important to me, Laverne, and what we are really working on at Planned Parenthood, is how important it is for our patients to be able to go to a health care provider where they're not judged and they're not stigmatized and they're treated completely with respect. I was at a big dinner here in New York, and one of the most prominent transgender activists in the area of health care said, "It's sort of amazing once a Planned Parenthood health center opens up, it's like the Underground Railroad. Everyone knows."

preach gloria

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cecile richards is a goddamn SAINT.

she endured a 5-hour congressional hearing yesterday where republicans acted like complete. dyicks.


this dyick trotted out a graph with no Y-axis. #checkyasource


i also had no idea she was ann richards' daughter!

somebody's gotta tell 'em.

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“Diseases that come from no condom for one second”

planned parenthood answered lena dunham's girls character's google search here. 

funny that it happened but also informative!

jicyww, I follow lena dunham, not planned parenthood...

good thinking, dummies.

The Susan G. Komen foundation has reversed its position on Planned Parenthood, and will continue funding the organization after all, issuing a statement that apologizes "for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives." The move comes after a week of online protest over the news that Komen would end a grant to Planned Parenthood to provide mammograms. It was not a move that Komen took lightly. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg unearthed memos from December that show how the Komen foundation instructed its employees to "obfuscate the issues when confronted with questions about why Komen cut off funding to Planned Parenthood." The letters outline "updated eligibility requirements" that include changes in tax-exemption status and loss of federal funding, among other things. (via)