Planned Parenthood
US nonprofit reproductive health services organization
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| September 2023 | Ruth Richardson, CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States, was accused by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa union members of conducting a union busting campaign. |
| 2022 | Nicole Moore, a Black woman who was the director of Planned Parenthood's multicultural brand engagement from January 2020 to November 2021, filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination during her employment. |
| 2022 | Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned both Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade, effectively ending the federal constitutional right to abortion. |
| October 2021 | Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood experiences a data breach affecting approximately 400,000 patients. |
| 2020 | Planned Parenthood distanced itself from founder Margaret Sanger by removing mentions of her from their website and renaming the Planned Parenthood building on Bleecker Street in response to criticisms about Sanger's historical associations with eugenics. |
| 2020 | Research demonstrated that Planned Parenthood clinic closures negatively impacted women's health, resulting in a 6–15% increase in maternal mortality rates across racial and ethnic groups. |
| 2020 | Planned Parenthood won the Webby Award for Machine Learning and Bots for their innovative Sex Education chatbot. |
| 2020 | Metropolitan Washington branch of Planned Parenthood is hacked, with donor and patient information compromised. |
| December 2019 | Federal charges were brought against Robert Lewis Dear Jr. for the Planned Parenthood shooting. |
| August 19 2019 | Planned Parenthood voluntarily withdrew from Title X funding due to a regulatory gag order prohibiting medical institutions receiving Title X funds from referring patients for abortions. |
| July 16 2019 | Leana Wen is removed as president of Planned Parenthood by the organization's board of directors. |
| 2018 | Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains filed a lawsuit challenging union organization after employees in Denver, Colorado voted to join the Service Employees International Union. |
| September 12 2018 | Planned Parenthood announces Leana Wen will become president, effective November 2018. |
| April 30 2018 | Cecile Richards' tenure as president of Planned Parenthood ends. |
| February 2018 | Following further psychiatric evaluations, the judge again ruled Dear incompetent to stand trial, keeping the prosecution on hold indefinitely. |
| March 2017 | Congressional Republicans announced the American Health Care Act, which would have made Planned Parenthood ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements and federal family planning grants. |
| 2016 | A study revealed that excluding Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics from Texas's Medicaid fee-for-service family-planning program led to reduced contraception provision and increased child-bearing among women using injectable contraceptives. |
| 2016 | Obama administration issued a rule (effective January 2017) banning states from withholding federal family-planning funds from health clinics providing abortions, which was later blocked by a federal judge. |
| May 2016 | A state court judge ruled Robert Lewis Dear Jr. incompetent to stand trial and ordered him indefinitely confined to a Colorado state mental hospital after mental competency evaluations determined him to be delusional. |
| March 2016 | Judge Martinez set a competency hearing for the following month, with Dear's counsel recommending a mental health evaluation. |
| February 2 2016 | U.S. House failed to override President Obama's veto of legislation that would have prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds for one year. |
| 2015 | A Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, Washington was heavily damaged by arson. |
| December 9 2015 | Dear was formally charged with 179 felony counts, including first-degree murder. During the court hearing, he repeatedly interrupted proceedings, yelling about protecting babies and expressing anti-abortion sentiments. |
| November 30 2015 | Robert Dear was charged with first-degree murder and appeared in court via video from El Paso County Jail, ordered held without bond. |
| November 27 2015 | Robert Dear, a 57-year-old gunman, attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing two civilians and a police officer during a five-hour gun battle. He was arrested and later declared incompetent to stand trial due to delusional disorder. |
| September 2015 | Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, testified before Congress about the organization's activities. |
| August 2015 | Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal attempted to end Louisiana's contract with Planned Parenthood for Medicaid patient treatment, leading to a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood and three patients. |
| 2014 | Planned Parenthood provided 3.6 million contraceptive services, 4.5 million sexually transmitted infection services, approximately one million cancer-related services, over one million pregnancy tests and prenatal services, over 324,000 abortion services, and over 100,000 other services, totaling 9.5 million discrete services. |
| 2013 | Planned Parenthood reported serving 2.7 million patients in 4.6 million clinical visits during this year. |
| 2012 | An unknown individual bombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. |
| 2012 | Texas state court judge Gary Harger denied Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary restraining order against the State of Texas, allowing the state to exclude doctors and clinics advocating for abortion rights from state funding. |
| 2012 | A Kansas district attorney found that the practices of the Kansas City-area Planned Parenthood clinic were 'within accepted practices in the medical community' and dropped all remaining criminal charges. |
| 2012 | Planned Parenthood endorsed Barack Obama in the presidential election and gained prominence for its effective political spending. |
| 2012 | Cecile Richards is voted one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. |
| 2011 | A government shutdown is nearly triggered due to intense debates over Planned Parenthood's federal funding, highlighting the organization's controversial status in national political discourse. |
| 2010 | Live Action began releasing a series of undercover videos filmed in Planned Parenthood centers, alleging misconduct by employees including assisting a prostitution ring and providing advice on sex-selective abortions. |
| May 2010 | Completed construction of the largest Planned Parenthood facility, a multi-million dollar structure located in Houston, Texas. |
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