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Virginia League of Planned Parenthood Formally known as the Birth Control Federation of America after receiving its charter from the State Corporation Commission in 1940, the organization that is now known as the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood was formed. Used to promote women’s health, education about safe sexual encounters, this organization is still in use today. Today there’s an interactive and clickable website detailing all the different information and services that Planned Parenthood facilities offer in the state of Virginia. Overview Virginia was not the first state to have a Planned Parenthood Clinic in its state borders. On October 16, 1916 the first Planned Parenthood Clinic was opened in Brooklyn, New York at 46 Amboy Street by a woman named Margaret Sanger. Sanger worked as a visiting nurse in New York City and after treating a patient who ultimately died after an unintended pregnancy, Sanger was inspired to open the clinic. After being open for only ten days, Sanger was arrested and her clinic ultimately shut down, but that did not prevent ambitious woman from opening various other clinics throughout the New York City area as means to get safe abortions as well as birth control to the women of New York. It would not be until close to thirty years later that Virginia would have their own Planned Parenthood Clinics and the women of Virginia would have the rights to their bodies, however once Virginia was granted the charter for Planned Parenthood, the state moved progressively quickly in order to ensure that safe family planning was available in a wide scale to those seeking it in the state of Virginia. Early Start The first organization in Virginia to publicly support birth control was the Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs. Founded in 1907 in Lynchburg Virginia, this organization was the state branch of the national organization known as the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, which was established in New York in 1892. The first elected president of this club was Mrs. James Kyle of the Lynchburg Woman’s club. The organization included clubs that were focused on means of self-education and development for women. These clubs were places for women to gather to discuss social experience, speak on literature and also practice sewing. Over the course of time the clubs would move towards placing more emphasis to community service and improvement. Four years after the Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs publicly supported birth control, the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood was chartered in August of 1940. Five years later, Dr. A. L. Carson, director of the bureau of maternal and child health in the Virginia State Department of Health, pushed for local health departments to be permitted to provide birth control services in their clinics. The clinics were able to provide birth control through products supplied by the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood. With this new addition to birth control being administered, women in the state of Virginia were able to better control their family planning. The league would supply birth control services to the clinics until 1956. More Progression Forward In 1956, the Virginia State health department became financially responsible for all contraceptives distributed by the maternal and child health clinics at the local health departments. With state funded facilities being more widespread, the advancement of more opportunities for family planning also became popular in Virginia. In 1962, the General Assembly of Virginia signed into legislation a law that permitted the act of “voluntary sterilization”. Voluntary Sterilization was not available for everyone in Virginia. In order to undergo the procedure a person had to be 21 years of age. They would consult their physician and then be asked to consult with another physician to ensure the procedure was truly something they wished to go through. After speaking with both physicians the participant would then have to wait thirty days before the procedure would be carried out. The equipment and supplies that were necessary for this procedure were provided by the Virginia State Department of Health, but only on the request of the local director. Typically sterilization was only available for married mothers of three or more children. Out of 200 women treated at a clinic in rural Virginia only 60 of these women opted for sterilization as treatment, and out of these 60 women more were white women than black women. By 1966, the General Assembly were specifically providing funds designed for the provision of family planning services through the health departments of the State. Within 50 years of progression forward, the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood was not only founded but also found ways to provide for various families throughout the state borders. Not only did the League provide contraceptive and abortions, it also stressed the importance of health education for women and children. Planned Parenthood Today The Virginia League of Planned Parenthood is still in existence today and has only furthered its responsibilities as a department. Each city and county in Virginia has a local health department with a full time staff. Each clinic provides family planning information, maternal and child health information as well as clinic services. These clinics operate within the legal code of other clinics throughout the state of Virginia and over the years have faced many setbacks, as well as the shift in public opinion. Change In Public Opinion While struggle for public acceptance in the past has been something many Planned Parenthood offices have faced, many dealing with protests on their own property, the opinion within the millennial generation seems to have changed greatly from the previous generations. Over the last few years there has been a significant drop in the young people of this country identifying as pro-life. Nearly two-thirds of voters under the age of thirty believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. According to the Gallup poll only 41% of people identify as “pro-choice” but also showed that 77% believe abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances. However, there is an inconsistency with how the young people in America respond to polls when terms such as “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are involved. It has come to light that as a whole the millennial generation is more understanding that each woman is different from the next. Each situation is different and that women cannot simply be filed into categories of “pro-life” and “pro-choice” due to the various different circumstances that each woman should come to face when deciding if abortion is right for them. In large part, young Americas believe that abortions are something that should be considered by the woman, the health care provider, her faith, and her family and should not have any intervention from the government. It is still a debate in many places throughout this country but through government legislations in the state of Virginia, Planned Parenthood is still state funded and is still providing legal and safe abortions, contraceptives, as well as health education for many women.

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