Planned Parenthood announced the free STD testing for “National Pink Out Day,” on September 29 hoping this will attract millions of people to rally for its cause of defending reproductive rights.
"National Pink Out Day", represents the celebration and awareness day for cancer victims.
Planned Parenthood are also inspired to share their website and share #PinkOut. “It will tell anti-abortion extremists and politicians that we are everywhere and we will not let them use fraud and deception to shut down the health centers so many women rely on for care. It will be women and men nationwide standing together to say: We’re not backing down, not today, not ever.”
The women’s health organization has come under fire recently after controversial videos appeared to show Planned Parenthood affiliates discussing the use of aborted fetuses in medical research.
Some law makers want to defund the group because of these tapes threatening a government shutdown while Planned Parenthood organization said that the videos were altered by their opponents.
Planned Parenthood was due to announced at the hearing that would help determined the future of the organization’s public funding.
Now, the organization that handled the reproductive health needs of both men and women across the country was turning the country pink in an effort to continued their mission of providing for women’s health care.
The organization would provide health services, including gynecological exams, breast, and cervical cancer screenings, contraceptive services, abortion care, HIV testing and the Sexually Transmitted Infection testing and treatment.
The Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are caused by infections that are passed from one person to another during sexual contact.
These infections often do not cause any symptoms. Medically, infections are only called diseases when they cause symptoms. That is why STDs are also called "sexually transmitted infections.
It’s very common for people to use the terms "sexually transmitted diseases" or "STDs," even when there are no signs of disease.
There are many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases and infections. And they are very common to more than half of people get one at some time in their lives.
