The Kenai Peninsula’s only Planned Parenthood is closing at the end of the month.
The Soldotna location doesn’t offer procedure abortions, and at this time, Alaska would keep its right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But a Planned Parenthood spokesperson said the organization is looking to free up budgets to make way for changes that could come up in states that do have trigger laws.
“We started it as we knew we were entering what would likely be the end of the constitutional right to abortion,” she said. “Because we had heard the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in December and could tell, unfortunately, which direction the court was leaning.” 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.
Today, the center employs three people full time and has one provider that comes down from Anchorage some days.
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