A day-long fitness and grassroots activism event on August 12

Mark your calendars: The Run 4 All Women California will take place on Saturday, August 12^th, and will benefit Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest!

Planned Parenthood volunteers, staff, and supporters showed their PRIDE at the 43^rd annual San Diego Pride Parade. Planned Parenthood is proud to be part of the LGBT community — many of our patients, staff, volunteers, and supporters are gay, lesbian, transgender, or bisexual people. And we share a fundamental belief that all people should have equal rights, including access to health care.

Growing up in a conservative Hispanic and Catholic home, reproductive health wasn’t a topic that was openly discussed; in fact it was considered quite taboo.

Laura has been a Planned Parenthood patient for 8 years. Now she’s volunteering for us, because she wants to give back to the organization that has always provided her with nonjudgmental, compassionate care.

Watch Ariana explain why the closure of Planned Parenthood in Imperial Valley would cause her to travel to Mexico for her reproductive health care. Ariana is a tremendous speaker and powerful advocate for Planned Parenthood!

Planned Parenthood is a safe place for women to get affordable health care – but we’re not exclusive. A growing number of men have discovered Planned Parenthood also provides outstanding men’s health services: physical exams, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, vasectomies, and other issues.

Alberto and Marylin work in Community and Government Relations (CGR) at our El Centro health center. They teach sexual education to youth in the Imperial Valley.

Defunding Planned Parenthood would affect millions of women and men who come to us for nonjudgmental, compassionate care. Read on for one woman’s experience at Planned Parenthood:

Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) rates are increasing in California. According to the Centers for Disease Control, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are all on the rise.