We Do More

Working to ensure all people have the information, education, access to medical services, and freedom and privacy to make informed, healthy sexual and reproductive choices.

Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County does more:

We provide comprehensive reproductive and sexual healthcare while protecting individual privacy and offering services free or at reduced rates for those who otherwise could not afford the care.

We provide educational and professional training programs to enhance understanding of sexuality.

We advocate and organize in our community to ensure access to these services.

Being needed is cause enough for the wide range of services offered. Today, PPABC stands alone as Bucks County's premier provider of reproductive and sexual health care, education and advocacy:

Facts you might want to know:

One in four American women has used Planned Parenthood services in their lifetime!
All family planning services at Planned Parenthood of Bucks County are available on a sliding scale fee basis according to income, with many patients paying no fee at all due to federal and state funding and other fundraising efforts.
More than 17,000 individuals obtain reproductive and sexual health care at PPABC a year.
Services at PPABC can be provided in Spanish and Russian.
If a woman plans to have two children in her lifetime, it means she will need some form of birth control for nearly 30 years.
The US teenage birth rate is the highest in the developed world.
About one person in the US gets HIV every 15 minutes.
The majority of PPABC's patients are uninsured, adult women who have no other family planning option in Bucks County.
PPABC can provide sensitive sexual health services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals.

Family Planning:

Most FDA approved methods of contraception
Counseling regarding birth control options
Largest provider of emergency contraception, often called "the morning after pill" to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse
Pregnancy testing
Options counseling and referrals for pregnant women regarding pre-natal care, adoption, abortion

Medical Screenings and Services:

One of the largest providers of out-patient cancer screenings in Bucks County, including pap tests, breast exams, mammography referrals, testicular exams.
One of the largest providers of free HIV tests and counseling in Bucks County, including the new Rapid HIV test with results in 20 minutes
Routine annual gynecological examinations with follow up exams as needed
Treatment using colposcopy and LEEP procedures for abnormal pap results
Screening for anemia, hypertension and diabetes as part of routine reproductive health exam
Testing and treatment of all sexually transmitted diseases
Services for women at mid-life, including hormone replacement
Smoking cessation counseling
Screening and referral for those involved in high risk alcohol use
Referrals for social and family problems
Only not-for-profit provider of first trimester medical and surgical abortion in Bucks County

Sexuality Education and Training

Largest provider of comprehensive, age appropriate, honest and medically accurate sexuality education and training to Bucks County youth and professionals in a variety of community settings.
Only center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and allied (LGBTQA) youth in the county.
Leading provider of after-school sexuality education groups to the most vulnerable and least affluent youth.
Training for teachers and other professionals regarding adolescent sexuality

Reproductive Rights Advocacy

Leading community organizer and advocate of reproductive rights on state and federal levels.

At PPABC, being needed is cause enough: Our entire organization - staff, advocates, volunteers, contributors - are united in the belief that each individual has the right to manage her or his reproductive and sexual health, regardless of income, marital status, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin or race. We also believe that reproductive self-determination must be voluntary and preserve each individual's right to privacy.