A yr after Dobbs, Planned Parenthood publicizes layoffs, restructuring

Planned Parenthood introduced this week that it’s going to restructure its group and lower workers in its nationwide places of work. 

The union representing Planned Parenthood employees confirmed this week that the corporate deliberate to chop not less than 80 individuals from its nationwide places of work in New York City and the District of Columbia. 

“This comes at a time where reproductive freedom is in jeopardy and when our members are struggling under difficult economic conditions,” an announcement from the union reads. 

The layoffs are a part of a larger restructuring plan on the firm. Funding will shift towards nonabortion procedures like screenings for sexually transmitted infections and being pregnant, plus telehealth companies.

Planned Parenthood is essentially the most well-known abortion supplier within the nation and is in a precarious authorized place after the nationwide proper to abortion ended final yr. Since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson resolution final June, over a dozen states have handed complete abortion bans, with a number of others passing related restrictions. 

Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson mentioned the layoffs and restructuring should not a sign of the corporate’s monetary place, however a mirrored image of the corporate’s have to react to a altering authorized setting.

“Without question, the world we are living in right now — the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the loss of abortion access, the weaponization of our courts and attacks on our democracy, the criminalization of providers and patients, and rampant misinformation — is vastly different than just a decade ago,” she mentioned. “Planned Parenthood must change, too.”