Planned Parenthood - Obama Presidency Oral History

...I was not the logical person to run Planned Parenthood . I wasn't a doctor. I wasn't ...

...that the organization felt that even if Planned Parenthood was the most incredible healthcar...

...whoever—could not only access care at Planned Parenthood but anywhere else, and no matter wher...

...Obama comes to speak to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Can you describe th...

...of this happened as I was coming in to Planned Parenthood , but had been building over man...

...whether it's the patients that come to Planned Parenthood or just everyday people, everyone need...

...opposed those things, or even opposed Planned Parenthood , but it really felt like it was th...

...Party who'd been supporters of Planned Parenthood , supporters of these issues, ha...

...time for me, not only as the head of Planned Parenthood , but also because I have three kids...

...the incoming administration start for Planned Parenthood ? It's a really good question...

...vital to exercising the strength of Planned Parenthood ? You mean, outside of electora...

...are big institutions like this, and Planned Parenthood —you meet people whose grandmother...

...grandmothers were on the first board of Planned Parenthood . There is just a long, long an...

...think we knew how important it was, at Planned Parenthood , that people could get beyond all th...

...most important moment in your time at Planned Parenthood ?” And it involved President Obama...

...transformed not access to care at Planned Parenthood , but access to basic family plannin...

...was worth the twelve years I spent at Planned Parenthood , because I think it fundamentall...

...without the grassroots advocacy of Planned Parenthood and a lot of other folks. You opene...

...sure there probably were people within Planned Parenthood that believed that way. But I felt, i...

...I think that's true, too, for me at Planned Parenthood . I'm sure there are people now wh...

...listen, there were people at Planned Parenthood who were like, “Well, if everybody ca...

...were some of those tensions within Planned Parenthood . But, ultimately, our mission shoul...

...which is, your tenure as president of Planned Parenthood is marked by these ongoing efforts t...

...by these ongoing efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and the increasing polarization i...

...of a misnomer, because it's not like Planned Parenthood is written into the federal budget...

...access preventive care, including at Planned Parenthood . But that was his effort to say tha...

...But that was his effort to say that Planned Parenthood should be blocked from participating i...

...another option—in a lot of communities, Planned Parenthood was the only provider of Medicai...

...off the field, and misunderstood that Planned Parenthood was seen by most people as the plac...

...understand why they wanted to eliminate Planned Parenthood , because we were now not only th...

...health and I know you want to defund Planned Parenthood . I don't believe in that,” or whateve...

...effect. And I was like, “Oh my god, Planned Parenthood made it into a national presidentia...

...that Mitt Romney's opposition to Planned Parenthood was significant with women. That it wa...

...just because they were in love with Planned Parenthood , but because it said something abou...

...was so extreme he wanted to shut down Planned Parenthood , which, again, for most people, th...

...because Romney, of course, had been a Planned Parenthood supporter back before he became th...

...you could go that there weren't pink Planned Parenthood t-shirts. People who felt a commitmen...

...the first sitting president to speak at Planned Parenthood . How does that relationship continue...

...that the president came and spoke to Planned Parenthood —it was the first time a sittin...

...a sitting president had ever spoken to Planned Parenthood . In fact, I remember poor Valeri...

...debate, when the president talked about Planned Parenthood and the important care they provided...

...it's harder. And he was speaking to Planned Parenthood at a time in which there were a lot o...

...the public understanding of what Planned Parenthood is and communicating that, bot...

...does it matter, why would it matter if Planned Parenthood wasn't around. In fact, I remember on...

...and he'd said that it didn't matter if Planned Parenthood got put out of business because onl...

...business because only hookers went to Planned Parenthood . As he was saying that, of course, ou...

...doctor on base can't see us, we go to Planned Parenthood ?” And that to me, the reeducation o...

...country, and the essential role that Planned Parenthood provided—President Obama doing that...

...think Fox & Friends said we didn't need Planned Parenthood , because people could just go t...

...in four women in America had been to a Planned Parenthood , and it was like you saw the grea...

...a guy president, actually affirm what Planned Parenthood did, the care we provided, wa...

...that watershed moment of the speech to Planned Parenthood , I think we got to the point where yo...

...way to describe that. The thing about Planned Parenthood is, we're not in the blue states. We'r...

...happens where there's a shooting at Planned Parenthood , and you're brought back int...

...that were—said terrible things about Planned Parenthood . And trying to say to—not directl...

...was and is. You may disagree with Planned Parenthood . You may be opposed to abortio...

...may not ever want to use services of Planned Parenthood —although I can recount so man...

...just a deluge of anti-abortion, anti- Planned Parenthood , anti-everything bills going throug...

...the worst day of my entire time at Planned Parenthood , maybe in my life, was the day tha...

...of the things we had invested in at Planned Parenthood was a new generation of docs, who ha...

...including the ones that worked at Planned Parenthood . There were some doctors who decided...

...to do to keep from getting defunded at Planned Parenthood , there was a lot of, “Well, but the...

...is our mission. No shame, no stigma. Planned Parenthood is a place you can go. As one of m...

...As you reflect back on your time at Planned Parenthood , much of which was during the era o...

...which is what I tried to bring to Planned Parenthood —not bring, but reinvest in an...

...with other people to do when I was at Planned Parenthood , but they just simply reinforced ho...

...the things. That was a big challenge at Planned Parenthood , too, and continues to be. But that t...

...I—what are we here for? For us at Planned Parenthood , it was one thing. And that meant...

...get to about your time working at Planned Parenthood or with the administration. I gues...

...medical physicians were on the board of Planned Parenthood Hawaiʻi. And so Obama's grandmother...

...his grandmother is on the Board of Planned Parenthood Hawaiʻi. So that says a lot about you...