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  • Planned Parenthood - doling out the hormones

    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 4 20:55:07 2023
    Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of cross-sex hormones in the United States, and one of the fastest growing. Affiliates in the greater Portland area saw a nearly 400 percent increase in “gender-affirming care visits” between 2021
    and 2022, according to their annual reports, while those in Ohio saw a 544 percent increase over the same period. Hormones now appear to be in higher demand than abortion at some branches: A Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tenn., told NPR that nearly a
    fifth of its patients sought hormone therapy in 2021, whereas abortion makes up just 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services nationally.

    Planned Parenthood has thrown safeguards out the window and now diagnoses and provides hormone blockers to people after a 30-minute consultation.

    “I have always been a very strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and am pro-choice,” said Laura Edwards-Leeper, who co-founded the nation’s first pediatric gender clinic, at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 2007. “But they have taken on
    something that they are not equipped to handle.”

    The lack of oversight is so bad, Dr. Edwards-Leeper added, that some of her patients received hormones from Planned Parenthood even before coming to see her.

    They're just in it for the money. If you're willing the crush the skull of a preborn infant for money....what else won't you do?

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Thu Oct 5 07:22:11 2023
    On 10/4/23 10:55 PM, ScottW wrote:
    They're just in it for the money.

    Same old tired claim against Planned Parenthood. Cross-reference this
    with your call for new blood in your other post.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 5 09:26:12 2023
    On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 5:22:14 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:
    On 10/4/23 10:55 PM, ScottW wrote:
    They're just in it for the money.
    Same old tired

    non-response

    How old is PP now prescribes puberty blockers?
    Kind of new to me, but I guess you know better.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Thu Oct 5 15:46:04 2023
    On 10/5/23 11:26 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 5:22:14 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:
    On 10/4/23 10:55 PM, ScottW wrote:
    They're just in it for the money.
    Same old tired

    non-response

    It's a response to your claim that "they're just in it for the money,"
    an old untrue trope.

    How old is PP now prescribes puberty blockers?

    How is can answer? But if you mean to ask how long PP has had gender
    affirming care, a quick google shows it was offered as far back as 2015
    in certain locations

    Kind of new to me, but I guess you know better.

    If you shut down gender affirming care where it was once offered,
    idealistic groups will provide access as a matter of principle.

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