From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of cross-sex hormones in   
   the United States, and one of the fastest growing. Affiliates in the greater   
   Portland area saw a nearly 400 percent increase in “gender-affirming care   
   visits” between 2021    
   and 2022, according to their annual reports, while those in Ohio saw a 544   
   percent increase over the same period. Hormones now appear to be in higher   
   demand than abortion at some branches: A Planned Parenthood in Knoxville,   
   Tenn., told NPR that nearly a    
   fifth of its patients sought hormone therapy in 2021, whereas abortion makes   
   up just 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services nationally.   
      
   Planned Parenthood has thrown safeguards out the window and now diagnoses and   
   provides hormone blockers to people after a 30-minute consultation.   
      
   “I have always been a very strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and am   
   pro-choice,” said Laura Edwards-Leeper, who co-founded the nation’s first   
   pediatric gender clinic, at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 2007. “But they   
   have taken on    
   something that they are not equipped to handle.”   
      
   The lack of oversight is so bad, Dr. Edwards-Leeper added, that some of her   
   patients received hormones from Planned Parenthood even before coming to see   
   her.   
      
   They're just in it for the money.  If you're willing the crush the skull of a   
   preborn infant for money....what else won't you do?   
      
   ScottW   
      
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