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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Planned Parenthood: The organisation leading the fight for abortion access as Roe v Wade is overturned

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When the Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion striking down Roe v Wade was leaked last month, Planned Parenthood put out a statement saying that its “worst fears had been confirmed”.

For more than a century, the nonprofit has been on the frontline of America’s war over access to reproductive healthcare, ever since its founder opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in New York City in 1916.

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