(Walk down campus, left on Vandeventer, right on Forest Park)
Services include:
- abortion referral
- birth control services
- emergency contraception
- HIV testing
- HPV and Hepatitis Vaccines
- pregnancy testing, options and services
- STD testing and treatment
- women's health services such as Pap smears, cervical cancer screening, and UTI treatment
To learn more about Planned Parenthood and all the good that they are doing for women, check out their website.
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you guys rock!
There are also other options avaliable around campus for college students trying to figure out how to approach crisis pregnancies.
THRIVE Pregnancy Resource Center:
- on Lindell past schnuks and walgreens, before the Cathedral Bascillica
- ALL services are FREE!
- Services provided include: ultrasound, pregnancy testing, case management, parenting classes, options counseling,medical referrals
4331 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis MO 63108
314-773-4626
Birthright St. Louis
- Birthright provides free and confidential pregnancy testing and counseling
- many locations around st. louis (there is one in Central West End)
Lutheran Family Services
- provides services to pregnant women through its Women In Need Growing Stronger program known as WINGS. All services are confidential and include:
Supportive counseling
Case management
Help accessing prenatal care
Childbirth preparation
Adoption assistance
Parenting Skills
Referrals for childcare
Help with education or job training and placement
Housing Assistance and Referrals
Help with domestic violence protection
Mental health screening, treatment and referrals
Nice try but besides pregnancy testing and ultrasound, none of those places provide any medical services.
"Childbirth preparation"...is that Lamaze or something? I can take the class at the library.
Those are all great services but not an alternative for Planned Parenthood or a full service health clinic.
I am an avid supporter of Planned Parenthood, the pro-choice movement, and B*illikens for Choice, but I feel like the facts are a little skewed here.
If you go on the actual Planned Parenthood website, you can see that abortions actually DO occur inside the building. They are just preformed by "Reproductive Health Services of PPLSR" and not specifically Planned Parenthood's "Central West End Health Center."
Like I said, I fully support you all, but I think the facts need to be presented in an accurate light.
I can also affirm that abortions are performed at the Planned Parenthood center on Forest Park. It's not difficult to pick up on if you've been to this location. The website also shows that abortion services can be found at the same street address as the healh center.
That part should be taken out. Wrong information can discredit this group.
ProChoiceSLU, why should anyone be uncomfortable with abortion services at this location of Planned Parenthood?
In your own post you betray the understanding inside every human being that there is something very wrong, very damaging, very traumatizing, very painful about abortion...to the point that it would make many people uncomfortable to be around it.
Hmm.
Thanks for the heads up--we had incorrect information. The post has been edited.
Rachel,
I think the authors simply meant to acknowledge that some, such as yourself, might be uncomfortable with abortion. Just because some people are uncomfortable with it, doesn't mean all people should automatically be uncomfortable, too. In addition, I don't think the authors of this site mean to shout from the rooftops that abortion is great. They simply seek to foster constructive conversations about options available before and after conception.
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