Maternal Outreach Project Planned Parenthood

Although the clinic is most known for providing abortion services across the globe, when Margret Sanger first founded the clinic, it was basically for providing birth control devices to women and collection of statistics of how effective the birth control was to women. Sanger later incorporates her clinic with a new clinic that was examining the impact of population grown and the two organizations became one under the name Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. According to Sanger, her main interest was to provide effective and low-quality birth control and that made her to form Brownsville clinic. However, when the clinic was first opened, it operated secretly but was later made public after many women visited the facility for birth control services this raises security issues, and Sager was arrested leading to the closure of the clinic.

Up to date, Planned Parenthood in West Oakland offers various health services to women such as sex education, All-Options pregnancy counseling, and perinatal care. Through the education offered in West Oakland and even other branches of Planned Parenthood, young girls and women are well informed of their sexuality and the risk that is associated with sexual intercourse. Besides, they offer abstinence education to young girls and how they can maintain their sexual purity until they are married. Through this program, sexual related problems such as unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are avoided. Additionally, Planned Parenthood in West Oakland provides women with an unbiased and nonjudgmental explanation of the alternatives when they are faced with unplanned pregnancies. The consultations are confidential with patients only allowed be bring people of their choices such as family members and partners.

I was embraced with the services that are offered in West Oakland through their website, and therefore I decided to make a call to confirm if I can be allowed to visit the facility. What made me happier was the phone call that I made, one of the staff member received my call and asked me if I was comfortable with the language or should they interpret for me my conversation with them. I talked to her for nearly one hour inquiring more about their services on pregnancy issue. I then decide to visit the clinic the next day to gather more information for my project. Arriving at the clinic, I was first greeted and given a printout of all the services they are offering.

Their staffs understand that not all abortions are planned since other can be as a result of a miscarriage. Therefore at Planned Parenthood, the staff members are ready to offer the patient the best education and how to deal with the situation. The service is very effective and allows the women to move on with their own life and live a healthy life even after abortion. Planned Parenthood provides low-cost service to the patients who do not have insurance cover at the same time they give their patients information and referrals on how they can acquire their insurance cover. For those who decide to keep their pregnancy, the clinic offers them a way of maintaining a healthy pregnancy throughout their pregnancy period.