{"id":1018,"date":"2025-10-24T12:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:52:04","slug":"truly-devastating-manhattan-planned-parenthood-to-close-nov-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/truly-devastating-manhattan-planned-parenthood-to-close-nov-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Truly devastating\u2019: Manhattan Planned Parenthood to close Nov. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Tisch senior Sam Del Rio, Planned Parenthood\u2019s Manhattan clinic was where she went during her sophomore year when she needed sexual health services. Only three blocks east of the Paulson Center, the clinic was an accessible alternative to NYU\u2019s Student Health Center \u2014 where she struggled to schedule appointments due to high demand and was met with large, out-of-pocket costs for gynecological services without NYU\u2019s health insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that I came down with something, and then got tested negative, and I went consistently for around a month,\u201d Del Rio, who co-founded the Feminist Theatre Company at the Tisch School of the Arts, said. \u201cThat\u2019s something I don\u2019t think I would be able to do at NYU, just because we have so many students. The insurance is a big barrier for a lot of students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, after 36 years of providing low-cost services to NYU students and New York City residents alike, Planned Parenthood\u2019s sole Manhattan location will no longer see patients starting Nov. 1, the organization told WSN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement, which Del Rio called \u201ctruly devastating,\u201d first came in March when Planned Parenthood of Greater New York stated that it would close the clinic because of inadequate funding from private insurers and the state\u2019s Medicaid program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c26 Bleecker Street has always been a special place \u2014 from serving all who turn to us, to training providers who positively impact the sexual and reproductive health care landscape in Manhattan,\u201d PPGNY President and CEO Wendy Stark said in a <\/span>press release<\/span><\/a> that month. \u201cWe see a future where we can build a new state-of-the-art health center in Manhattan, similar to our health centers in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. The first step is putting the building on the market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

PPGNY also cited \u201crising costs of maintaining an older building\u201d as a factor that led to the upcoming closure. Although it will stop seeing patients starting next month, the clinic cannot officially close until it receives approval from the New York City Department of Health, PPGNY Communications Director Senti Sojwal said in an email to WSN.<\/span><\/p>\n

The closure comes amid the <\/span>Trump administration\u2019s broader efforts to limit abortion access<\/span><\/a>. CAS junior and co-president of NYU\u2019s Feminist Society Barney Riley told WSN she had an immediate \u201cfeeling of discouragement\u201d upon learning about the clinic’s closure in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a clear representation of how the federal funding cuts are causing severe financial constraints for health care providers like Planned Parenthood,\u201d Riley said. \u201cThere are other factors, of course, like the high cost of rent in New York City, but that\u2019s no excuse for closing the one and only location of Planned Parenthood in Manhattan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallatin senior Mina Farahmand, who is a member of NYU\u2019s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, said she is concerned about how the closure could affect local students and residents who depend on the clinic for its reproductive health care. While NYU <\/span>has vending machines <\/span><\/a>with $15\u00a0emergency contraceptives throughout campus, Farahmand said she often sees them unstocked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of NYU students would go [to Planned Parenthood] for abortion services because the NYU health center <\/span>doesn\u2019t provide<\/span><\/a> those services,\u201d Farahmand said. \u201cThe Student Health Center will send you to NYU Langone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NYU-sponsored Wellfleet insurance began <\/span>covering all abortions in 2023<\/span><\/a>. But Del Rio, who is not on the university\u2019s health insurance plan, relies on Planned Parenthood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people who have the availability to get an abortion through NYU are people who are on their insurance,\u201d Del Rio said. \u201cSo I would not be surprised if this also directly impacts low-income students who do not have access to Wellfleet insurance because it\u2019s so unbelievably expensive and inaccessible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Del Rio said she is also particularly concerned for students from states where abortion has already been restricted or fully banned, making the Planned Parenthood clinic in NoHo one of their only sources of reproductive health care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following PPGNY\u2019s March announcement, the Trump administration <\/span>notified nine Planned Parenthood branches<\/span><\/a> that it would withhold their Title X funding. In July, Trump\u2019s \u201c<\/span>One Big Beautiful Bill<\/span><\/a>\u201d \u2014 which placed a one-year pause on federal funding to major abortion providers \u2014 put nearly 200 Planned Parenthood facilities at risk of closure, 90% of which are located in states where abortion has remained legal after <\/span>Roe v. Wade was reversed<\/span><\/a> in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abortions, however, only make up <\/span>4% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood<\/span><\/a>. Defunding the organization means also limiting access to its HIV testing and treatment, cancer screenings, contraception and gender-affirming care.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though NYU Langone Health was pressured to reinstate gender-affirming care after <\/span>denying it to at least two children<\/span><\/a> in February, the future accessibility of such services remains uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith Plan B being left unstocked at NYU vending machines, Planned Parenthood leaving Manhattan and NYU refusing to offer abortion services to students on site, we must organize and build campaigns to win NYU and New York as a fortress of reproductive health care,\u201d Farahmand said. \u201cWe must fight back every step of the way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Evan Barragate at culture@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story ‘Truly devastating\u2019: Manhattan Planned Parenthood to close Nov. 1<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Tisch senior Sam Del Rio, Planned Parenthood\u2019s Manhattan clinic was where she went during her sophomore year when she needed sexual health services. Only three blocks east of the Paulson Center, the clinic was an accessible alternative to NYU\u2019s Student Health Center \u2014 where she struggled to schedule appointments due to high demand and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}