Could you please tell me your name, title and spell it out please
“Sarah Miller, S-a-r-a-h, Miller, M-i-l-l-e-r, Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parent Hood of Nassau County.”
Can you tell me how do you feel planned parent hood benefits women in Hempstead or Long Island?
“Planned Parent Hood Provides a full range of reproductive health care and preventative healthcare, sex ed, comprehensive sex ed, family planning, disease prevention and we are a full service healthcare provider for women and their families and men here in Hempstead and in Glencove and in Massapequa, we have three centers.”
Do you think the area would be different if Planned Parenthood weren't around?
“I think we definitely are a very strong provider for the community and many many people use our services, so I'm glad that we're here.”
Do you think women in particular would be, their lives would be a little harder if places like this didn't exist?
“Yes I do because we have a sliding scale, we don’t turn people away, women know we are trust worthy, confidential, everything that we do here is confidential and we're here to help women and their children get that health care they need.”
Do you think that people focus too much on the fact that planned parent hood is a provider of abortion?
“Absolutely, I think planned parenthood is one of the most misunderstood organizations, 5% we are a first trimester abortion provider, but that is only 5% of what we do, most of what we do is prevention, prevention of unintended pregnancies, family planning comprehensive sex ed, so young can people can get the information they need to stay safe and healthy and most of what we do is about prevention of disease and prevention of unintended pregnancy, so yes we are much more than an abortion provider.”
I have another source that looks at Planned Parenthood in a way saying that they just tell women like in providing abortion they are basically telling women that they are not equipped to raise a child, how do you feel about this?
“No, here’s our goal, we have what we call all options counseling and the goal there is for the woman to make the best decision for her, we never guide anybody in that decision, we lay out all of the woman’s options, carrying the child to term, parenting adoption and termination, the counselor never directs that person in making that decision, its her choice, her life and we're here to help that person make the best decision for them.”
Do you think this area in particular, is in need of education, the sexual reproduction area?
“We're very strong believers in comprehensive sex ed, which is abstinence quest messaging, of course the only sure way not o get pregnant and not to get an std is to abstain and we totally have the abstinence message but we also give additional messaging so that a person is going to be sexually active they know how to keep themselves safe, and healthy and so everybody is in need of that, we all need to know the facts, knowledge is power, the more you know the better decisions you can make.”
Could you tell me a little bit about how Planned Parenthood got started?
“Well this is our 75th anniversary of Planned Parent Hood of Nassau County, and it was started by women that believe that women had the right to control when and the timing of when they will have their children, so we're family planning providers.”
This site in particular, do you know how long it's been here?
“You know I’m sorry I don’t know exactly when we came here but Planned Parenthood of Nassau County has been here for 75 years.”
“Another thing, for those women who would like to carry their babies to term and mother their babies we have an amazing prenatal program here that serves women of the community. We have a whole beautiful wall of babies downstairs that were born under the healthcare services of Planned Parenthood.”
Could you say a little about the HIV quilt that you have here?
“Last year we had a 5 campus wide effort, we created a quilt for the national quilt project which memorializes so that we never forget the people who died from HIV aids across the globe and planned parenthood fights everyday for a cure to HIV aids and prevention of that disease, so the quilt that you took a picture of memorializes that fights.”
How do feel about the younger twelve year old that have access to contraceptives now, how do you feel about that?
“I think that children can hopefully talk to their parents, we encourage everyone to talk to their parents, not every family is a perfect family and the most important thing is that women stay safe and healthy.”
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