Indiana, Kentucky join Planned Parenthood's western alliance

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Rick Callahan, Associated Press Updated 4:59 pm CST, Friday, February 1, 2019

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood's affiliate overseeing Hawaii and three western states announced Friday that it was adding Indiana and Kentucky, a first-of-its-kind consolidation based not on geography but on reallocating resources to fight new abortion restrictions in the Midwest and South.

The arrangement by the women's health nonprofit places Indiana and Kentucky under a Seattle-based affiliate that currently oversees clinics in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho and western Washington.

Chris Charbonneau, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, said her group has an annual budget of about $70 million. She said its donors wanted to help Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.

In recent years, that Indianapolis-based group has faced the legal costs of challenging far-reaching limits on abortion rights sought by Republican lawmakers in both states — including a proposed bill before Kentucky's Legislature that would ban abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Indiana-Kentucky-Planned-Parenthood-enters-13579981.php

[elfin]

1. BIG fan of PP, however stopped donating some years ago because

I discerned nearly all my money was going to postage for mailers to convince me (and probably many others) to donate more.

It was relentless. Still get envelopes stuffed with begging after some years.

Don't know how to support the cause financially without this happening. Even doing so locally yields the same result.

I tried sending a real check with a note to devote my contribution to anything except direct mail or other ads. No use.

So disappointed.

Hope it has changed. But no $ from me until I know it has.

[Demovictory9]

3. had same experience. the mail never stops coming. back when donations were by check..

back when donations were by check, I'd black out my address on the check before sending it to charities... to prevent the onslaught of mail.


Currently, these groups mail me relentlessly. ACLA stopped when I renewed my membership.

Habit for humanity
Peta
PP

[Honeycombe8]

2. This is an amazing step. The Democrats are rockin' it. nt