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Birth Control Works2/08/2011 8:02:15 am PST

According to the Planned Parenthood 2008-9 Annual Report:

While much of our attention was on changes in our nation’s leadership, the focus at our affiliate health centers — as always — was on the women and young people we care for, and providing them with preventive health care. For the three million patients our doctors and nurses saw, we provided contraception (36 percent of our total services), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (31 percent), cancer screening and prevention (17 percent), and abortion services (three percent). In all, we helped prevent roughly 621,000 unintended pregnancies.

I don’t get the hoopla. Clearly, a lot of people are getting services they need and wouldn’t get elsewhere.