Nearly one yr after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood officers say they’re getting ready to restructure the group’s nationwide workplace and lay off dozens of workers members, with a brand new deal with serving to native associates.

Abortion rights supporters rally exterior a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis on May 31, 2019. At the time, it was the final location in Missouri performing abortions. The state’s abortion ban took impact quickly after the Dobbs determination in 2022.

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Abortion rights supporters rally exterior a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis on May 31, 2019. At the time, it was the final location in Missouri performing abortions. The state’s abortion ban took impact quickly after the Dobbs determination in 2022.

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Union officers representing Planned Parenthood staff say they’ve been informed to count on layoffs affecting 10 to twenty% of the nationwide workforce, or at the least 80 folks.

In a joint assertion from unions representing staff in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., union officers expressed dismay on the information, saying that Planned Parenthood leaders are “pushing out some of our movement’s brightest minds. This comes at a time where reproductive freedom is in jeopardy and when our members are struggling under difficult economic conditions.”

Planned Parenthood, which offers quite a lot of reproductive well being companies together with abortion by its clinics across the nation, is the nation’s most well-known abortion supplier. More than a dozen states have carried out abortion bans in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization determination in June 2022, forcing the group’s associates to adjust and adapt to a brand new authorized panorama.

In an announcement, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund stated the group will “reimagine” its nationwide workplace and make investments $70 million in its associates.

Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson stated the group will increase its telehealth capability and different applied sciences aimed toward serving sufferers no matter location. It may even spend money on state and nationwide election fights, and launch an initiative designed to cut back reproductive well being disparities for Black ladies.

“Without question, the world we are living in right now — the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the loss of abortion access, the weaponization of our courts and attacks on our democracy, the criminalization of providers and patients, and rampant misinformation — is vastly different than just a decade ago,” she stated within the assertion. “Planned Parenthood must change too.”