Christine (Chris) Charbonneau, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky, joins host Evelyn Lopez to talk about the current status of providing contraception, women’s healthcare, and protecting choice in Tacoma and Washington state.
Washington is a haven state for contraception and abortion services, and may become a haven state for trans kids’ healthcare needs too. We’ve had laws protecting the right to have an abortion since 1991 when our state passed Initiative 120: “The state may not deny or interfere with a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or to protect her life or health.” RCW 9.02.110.
As conservative states ramp up their efforts to get increasingly stringent abortion laws passed and into the court system, and as we see those same state’s starting to attack trans children and their healthcare, we can expect Washington’s Planned Parenthood to keep providing these critical healthcare services to our residents, and to others who come to our state for help. Chris explains that one of the reasons that our local Planned Parenthood organization now covers Indiana and Kentucky is to share resources, and spread our umbrella of access to healthcare to red state’s that need it.
Listen to the conversation, and find out more information about Planned Parenthood at www.plannedparenthood.org, And thank you Tacoma for being a hub of Planned Parenthood services!
Evelyn Lopez: truetacoma@gmail.com @True_Tacoma
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