Planned Parenthood Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

What is Planned Parenthood?
A: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally.

It is a tax-exempt corporation under what Internal Revenue Code section?
A: 501(c).

Where does PPFA have its roots?
A: In Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S.

When did she open it?
A: In 1916.

Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in what year?
A: 1921, which later changed its name to Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate how many health clinics in the U.S.?
A: Over 600.

It partners with organizations in how many countries?
A: 12.

The organization directly provides a variety of what?
A: Reproductive health services and sexual education.

It also contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of what?
A: Reproductive rights.

PPFA is the largest single provider of “what” in the US?
A: Reproductive health services, including abortion.

In their 2014 Annual Report, PPFA reported seeing how many patients in over 4 million clinical visits?
A: Over 2.5 million.

It also reported performing a total of nearly 9.5 million discrete services including how many abortions?
A: 324,000.

Its combined annual revenue is how much?
A: US$1.3 billion, including approximately $530 million in government funding such as Medicaid reimbursements.

Throughout its history, PPFA and its member clinics have experienced support, controversy, protests, and what?
A: Violent attacks.

The origins of Planned Parenthood date to when?
A: October 16, 1916, when Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S.

Where was it located?
A: In the Brownsville section of the New York borough of Brooklyn.

What did they distribute?
A: Birth control, birth control advice, and birth control information.

All three women were arrested and jailed for violating provisions of what?
A: The Comstock Act, accused of distributing obscene materials at the clinic.

The so-called Brownsville trials brought what to their cause?
A: national attention and support.

Sanger and her co-defendants were convicted on what?
A: Misdemeanor charges, which they appealed through two subsequent appeals courts.

While the convictions were not overturned, the judge who issued the final ruling also modified the law to permit what?
A: Physician-prescribed birth control.

The women's campaign led to major changes in the laws governing what?
A: Birth control and sex education in the United States.

In 1921, the clinic was organized into what?
A: The American Birth Control League, the core of the only national birth-control organization in the U.S. until the 1960s.

By 1941, it was operating how many centers?
A: 222.

How many clients had it served?
A: 49,000 clients.

However, some found its title offensive and "against families", so the League began discussions for a what?
A: A new name.

In 1938, a group of private citizens organized the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood to do what?
A: To aid the American Birth Control League in spreading scientific knowledge about birth control to the general public.

In 1942, the League officially changed its name to what?
A: The Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Both Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger are strongly associated with what issue today?
A: The abortion issue.

For much of the organization's history, however, and throughout Sanger's life, abortion was what?
A: Illegal in the U.S., and discussions of the issue were often censored.

During this period, Sanger – like other American advocates of birth control – publicly what?
A: Condemned abortion, arguing that it would not be needed if every woman had access to birth control.

Following Margaret Sanger, who became president?
A: Alan Frank Guttmacher.

When did he serve?
A: He served from 1962 until 1974.

During his tenure, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of what?
A: The original birth control pill, giving rise to new attitudes towards women's reproductive freedom.

Also during his presidency, Planned Parenthood lobbied the federal government to support what?
A: Reproductive health, culminating with President Richard Nixon's signing of Title X to provide governmental subsidies for low-income women to access family planning services.

The Center for Family Planning Program Development was also founded as a what?
A: A semi-autonomous division.

The center became an independent organization and was renamed what in 1977?
A: The Guttmacher Institute.

Planned Parenthood began to advocate abortion law reform beginning in what year?
A: 1955, when the organization's medical director, Mary Calderone, convened a national conference of medical professionals on the issue.

The conference was the first instance of physicians and other professionals advocating reform of what?
A: The laws which criminalized abortion, and it played a key role in creating a movement for the reform of abortion laws in the U.S.

Focusing, at first, on legalizing therapeutic abortion, Planned Parenthood became an increasingly vocal proponent of liberalized abortion laws during the 1960s, culminating in its call for what?
A: The repeal of all anti-abortion laws in 1969.

In the years that followed, the organization played a key role in landmark abortion rights cases such as what?
A: Roe v Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992).

Once abortion was legalized during the early 1970s, Planned Parenthood also began acting as a what?
A: An abortion provider.

Who became the first African American president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1978?
A: Faye Wattleton.

Wattleton, who was also the youngest president in Planned Parenthood's history, served in this role until when?
A: 1992.

During her term, Planned Parenthood grew to become the seventh largest charity in the country, providing services to how many clients each year through its 170 affiliates, whose activities were spread across 50 states?
A: Four million.

From 1996 to 2006, Planned Parenthood was led by whom?
A: Gloria Feldt.

On February 15, 2006, who became president of the organization?
A: Cecile Richards.

In 2012, Richards was voted one of Time magazine's what?
A: 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Richards' tenure as president of the organization ended when?
A: On April 30, 2018.

On September 12, 2018, the organization announced that whom would take over as president, effective November 2018?
A: Leana Wen.