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The merger earlier this summer of Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida and Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida is already having an impact for women in Tallahassee, who have seen a significant decrease in contraceptive costs.
Planned Parenthood customers across north Florida are getting a chance at lower-priced birth control, thanks to a recent merger. “Birth control and family planning are basic health care,” said Staci Fox, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of North Florida, Inc. “We are always working to make reproductive health care more accessible to men, women and teens.”
The lower prices were made feasible thanks to the joining of Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida and Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida. The newly created Planned Parenthood of North Florida, or PPNF, now serves 25 counties across Florida, including Leon County and the Tallahassee area.
A single-pill version of the Plan B emergency contraceptive has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug previously was available in a two-pill dose.
My name is Abigail Malick, and I am the President of VOX UCF: Voices for Planned Parenthood at the University of Central Florida. UCF is a conservative campus, but our members are some of the most determined and caring people that I have ever come across. We take pride that we are one of the most active chapters of VOX in Florida. Currently we are working hard to ensure that VOX UCF has a permanent place and voice in Orlando.
Washington - Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens.
Emergency contraception (EC)
My name is Abigail Malick, and I am the President of VOX UCF: Voices for Planned Parenthood at the University of Central Florida. UCF is a conservative campus, but our members are some of the most determined and caring people that I have ever come across. We take pride that we are one of the most active chapters of VOX in Florida. Currently we are working hard to ensure that VOX UCF has a permanent place and voice in Orlando.