Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando Offers Help to the Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina

Orlando, FL — Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando will provide free contraceptive care to any woman from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

"This is a time for all America to pull together to help our fellow citizens whose lives have been forever changed by Hurricane Katrina," stated Sue Idtensohn, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando. "We anticipate that many residents of the areas devastated by Katrina will be finding temporary shelter in the Central Florida area."

Women and their families in Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Brevard Counties can call our main site at 407-246-1788 or visit www.ppgo.org for more information.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate nearly 800 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.