The Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association is a Palestinian sexual and reproductive health NGO, founded in Jerusalem in 1964.Member Association: Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA). International Planned Parenthood Federation. The PFPPA is affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.Alrifai, Ayesha. (2018). Abortion as a Contested Right in Occupied Palestine. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 14. 384-389. 10.1215/15525864-7025609. In 2014 it provided services to more than 70,000 women.Schwartz, Yardena. "Palestine's Abortion Problem". Foreign Policy. December 4, 2015. In 2019 it had eight clinics in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."Unsafe abortion in Palestine – Interview with former Director of PFPPA, Amina Stavridis". Safe Abortion Action Fund. It also provides services through telemedicine.
Abortion is largely illegal in Palestine. The PFPPA does not provide abortion care at its clinics, but does provide referrals to doctors who are willing to do so. The PFPPA supports "the right of women to choose the number and time of safe pregnancies as well as a safe abortion for medical reasons."Our Mission Statement. PFPPA. The group describes itself as taking a harm reduction approach to abortion care."Women in our communities use many unsafe methods to try to end pregnancies". International Planned Parenthood Federation.
The PFPPA's clinic in Gaza was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in October 2023.Fung, Katherine. Did Israel Destroy Planned Parenthood's Only Gaza Clinic? What We Know. Newsweek. October 13, 2023. Thabat Salim, a doctor employed by the group, was killed in another airstrike (in the Nuseirat refugee camp) in January 2025.Cheung, Kylie. Thabat Salim, Palestinian OBGYN Who Told Jezebel About Horror in Gaza, Killed in Israeli Airstrike. Jezebel. January 7 2005.
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