The layoffs hit staff that already spent much of its time regularly helping out affiliate counterparts. They also hit staff who worked on a much-touted equity program Planned Parenthood included as part of its post-restructure vision. Not only that, funding for a critical program — called the Emergency Access Funds, meant to help patients access abortion — was reduced, at a time when they needed more help than ever to get reproductive health care to people in need.
Those factors all contributed to an internal perception that PPFA had fumbled and was operating without a clear vision for the future in a post-Roe world.
“It’s hard to know what to make of it,” said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California Davis who focuses on abortion. Ziegler expressed some surprise at the news of Planned Parenthood’s restructure. “There’s a lot of uncertainty…
