The Kenai Peninsula’s only Planned Parenthood is closing at the end of the month. The organization is looking to free up budgets to make way for changes that could come in states with so-called trigger laws, which would ban abortion upon a Roe reversal.
That center does provide procedural abortions, as do the centers in Juneau and Fairbanks. Rodihan said some services, including prescriptions of birth control and emergency morning-after pills, can be done via telemedicine. She said the nonprofit has been investing more money on its telemedicine capacities, especially in rural communities.
Peggy Mullen, of Soldotna, helped start the Planned Parenthood center three decades ago. She thinks it started as a response to protests of a doctor who provided abortions in Kenai.One was the National Abortion Rights Action League. Over the years, she said the organization kept growing. That was despite protests and pushback from some members of the community.“At that time we were kind of on a roll,” Mullen said. “But I can understand now the need for maybe consolidating.”
In addition to reproductive health care, the branch offers gender-affirming medical care, including hormone therapy, and provides HIV testing and education.
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