Press Releases

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai‘i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) is proud to announce that Gender-Affirming Care (GAC) is now available at all its Indiana health centers for patients ages 18 and older. In response to a growing community need, PPGNHAIK has expanded both the number of locations and appointment availability at a time when provider shortages have limited access to all essential sexual and reproductive health care services across the state. GAC allows individuals to fully embrace and affirm their true identity, empowering them to live authentically as the people they have always been. PPGNHAIK remains committed to being a beacon of inclusive, compassionate care.

Sept. 16, 2024 • Indiana

More than one year after Indiana's criminal abortion ban took effect, an Indiana circuit court ruled against abortion providers and a pregnancy resource center and declined to broaden and clarify the scope of the ban’s narrow and ambiguous health and life exception despite ample evidence that it prevents Indiana physicians from providing critical abortion care to patients. The court also declined to block the requirement that any abortions provided under the ban’s limited exceptions take place in a hospital. This decision means that Hoosiers are left with dangerously limited options, even if they experience serious pregnancy complications.

Sept. 11, 2024 • Indiana

A Superior Court in Alaska has permanently blocked a law preventing advanced practice clinicians (APCs) — such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives — from providing medication and aspiration abortion, even when they are within the APCs’ scope of practice (the “APC ban”). The APC ban, which is the only law in Alaska that restricts the kind of care APCs are allowed to provide, explicitly targets abortion access: APCs in the state could already provide nearly identical care to patients experiencing miscarriage. 

Sept. 5, 2024 • Alaska

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States dismissed the case regarding Idaho's violation of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) as "improvidently granted," and ultimately sent it back to a lower court to be retried. As the case moves through the lower court, emergency abortion care will be reinstated in Idaho.

June 27, 2024 • Idaho

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai‘i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) is proud to announce that the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has awarded PPGNHAIK a score of 100 for the 2024 Healthcare Equality Index, designating the organization as a “Leader in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality.”

June 26, 2024 • Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Washington

Today, as we mark two years without federal protections for abortion access following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion providers, Planned Parenthood of Kentucky, the ACLU of Kentucky, and Congressman Morgan McGarvey called for leaders to allow medical professionals to leave politics out of medicine and let medical professionals do their job.

June 24, 2024 • Kentucky

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that anti-abortion doctors lacked standing to challenge the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, meaning access to the critical medication remains unchanged.

June 13, 2024 • Alaska, Hawaii, Washington

Birth control prevents pregnancy, abortion ends it. An IUD is not an abortion. If comprehensive and medically accurate sex ed was accessible in Indiana, adults might be less likely to spread misinformation.

 

Feb. 27, 2024 • Indiana

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai‘i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) is proud to announce it now has vasectomy services at four locations across Indiana.

Feb. 15, 2024 • Indiana