Ash Wednesday at PPCC

Planned Parenthood of Collier County provides access to quality and comprehensive healthcare for women throughout their lives, from teenage years to post menopause. In fact 98% of what our clinic does includes cervical and breast cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing and support, well women exams, birth control options, and menopausal healthcare. 

However, on March 5, 2014, Ash Wednesday, there were a record number of protesters outside our doors. Over 200 hundred community members, middle school students, teachers, priests, nuns, and others who are anti-women’s health, stood outside our clinic to place judgment on our patients. While they have the right to do this by law, it is important for each person in our community to respect another person’s opinion on any issue. 

We will continue to serve our patients from all areas of our service area including Collier, Glades, and Hendry Counties to ensure that everyone has access to healthcare regardless of ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, and sexual orientation. Our staff is committed to our mission and proud to provide the services we provide through payments from patients, grants, and our wonderful donors.  We also are grateful to have our volunteers who committed 614 hours of their time in the past year.

 

International Women’s Day

On Saturday, March 8, International Women’s Day, Planned Parenthood will respond to a call from the UN for people around the world to define the #WorldWeWant with messages in support of women and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. (Spoiler: In the world we want, access to health care doesn’t depend on your zip code. Or your gender. Or your sexual identity. Or the language you speak. Or the color of your skin.)

World We Want Manifesto

This is the world we want:

A world where access to health care doesn’t depend on your postal code. Or your gender. Or your sexual identity. Or the language you speak. Or the color of your skin.

A world where politicians don’t come between a woman and her health care provider.

A world where girls are just as likely as boys to stay in school, go after the jobs they want, and become leaders in their communities.

A world with no new HIV infections and where those living with HIV are able to make decisions about their health and lives, just like anybody else.

A world where young people are empowered and trusted with information about sex — so they can prevent unintended pregnancy and protect themselves from STDs.

A world where all people have equal protection and equal benefit under the law.

A world that is free of stigma, discrimination, and violence.

A world where reproductive rights are recognized as human rights.

A world that acknowledges that the only way forward is to protect and expand these rights.

A world where all people control their own bodies and their own destinies.