Huge thanks to Joe Simitian and the City of Mountain View City Planners for all their efforts to help Planned Parenthood remain in Mountain View. This is a fine example of government at its best, assuring quality health care for the most undeserserved amongst us. Kudos!

David B. Karpf, MD

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What wonderful news! And what a narrow minded view some have of what PP does. It was already here, by the way, and has been for a while. They actually probably prevent more abortions and save more babies than most places, providing counseling, birth control, pre-natal care... I can only assume the three that are so aghast are giving away condoms at high schools and supporting comprehensive sex ed starting in kindergarten, as that is a much more effective way to prevent abortions and promote sexual health. Abortions are going to happen anyway, do those of you against legal safe ones prefer if the mom and the baby suffered or died? That makes me cry.

Do you think all Planned Parenthood does is abortions? Abortions are a very tiny part of their services. They do fantastic health care at very affordable costs for many women and girls. It is a non-profit; hardly a lucrative endeavor! Joe Simitian should be very proud of his work.y8

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What fantastic news! Many families we know rely on Planned Parenthood for a variety of basic health care services. Having this clinic be able to stay in Mountain View will help many people have affordable access to high-quality healthcare.

You know how tiresome it is to have to read posts by out-of-town paid trolls, whose sole purpose is to "stir the pot" and put out propaganda?

Seriously -- let's find a way to keep these trolls off of this site.

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Mari Posa and Johanna Ten,

You are both sadly (if not intentionally) misinformed. Planned Parenthood does NOT get 90% of their funding by performing abortions - you are simply parroting the political rhetoric of those who want to deprive women of rights over their own bodies. PP provides basic primary care, and most importantly cervical cancer screening and breast cancer screening, as well as contraceptive counseling, to millions of women and a smaller number of men, many of whom have no other access to health care. If you do not know this, you should become better informed. Oh, wait - becoming well-informed is likely not your objective.

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Mari Posa, I did not state that PP performs mammograms. I said that they do breast cancer screening, in the form of breast exams, as part of the basic health care and gynelogical care they provide many women. And my 1st wife started the culposcopy program at PP in the North bay, so I know that they do cervical cancer screening, including culposcopy in addition to PAP smears. She also started the HIV screening program there, after she and I started the AIDS (then GRID) clinic at the LA free Clnic in 1982. I am a Professor of Endocrinology at Stanford, and have been a physician caring for patients for 38 years. And provide free health care at 13 free clinics. But I'm sure you know more about health care and PP than I do......

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As for Terry's post, all I can say is hahahahaha. Here's some info about that organization: "A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, took no action against Planned Parenthood and instead indicted Daleiden and a second CMP employee on felony charges of tampering with governmental records and attempting to purchase human organs. The charges were dropped six months later, but on March 28, 2017, Daleiden and Merritt were charged with 15 felonies in California – one for each of the people whom they had filmed without consent, and one for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy." Indicted in Texas, of all places, and facing felonies in California. Sure seems like they're on the up-and-up

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Hundreds of thousands of abortions are performed each year in the United States.

But somehow this Planned Parenthood location doesn't really do that many?

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Not sure how many abortions the Mtn View location performs, but the real nationwide figure of how much abortion figures into PP's activities is apparently somewhere between 7% to 12%, according to the Washington Post: Web Link
It isn't the 3% Planned Parenthood advertises, nor the 94% figure circulated in right-wing propaganda.