36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade a Powerful Reminder That The Struggle for Women's Health and Safety Continues

36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade a Powerful Reminder That The Struggle for Women’s Health and Safety Continues

(Sioux Falls) On the anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) renewed it’s commitment to continue to protect women’s health, increase access to affordable health care and birth control and to work in coalition to improve preventative health care for South Dakotans.

PPMNS will also partner will NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota to present a showing of the documentary “Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance.”

The event will be held on January 22 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn City Centre, 100 W 8th St., in Sioux Falls.

RSVP if you plan to attend to: casey@prochoicesd.org

“Strong family planning is good health care policy, good public policy and makes good sense from both a fiscal and a social perspective,” said Shannon Stevens, PPMNS Public Affairs Manager.

Last year in communities across our region, Planned Parenthood provide more than 65,000 women, men and teens with health care and education they need to build healthier, brighter futures.

For 80 years, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has worked in our region to make sure all people have the information and the means to make free and responsible decisions about whether and when to have children. Planned Parenthood operates 29 clinics in Minnesota and South Dakota, providing quality and affordable family planning, reproductive health care services and education to more than 60,000 women and men each year.