So Many Acronyms, So Little Time

What is the difference between VLPP, PPFA, and PPAV?

The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood (VLPP)

VLPP is located in Richmond at our clinic on Floyd Avenue. We provide reproductive health care and education to the metro-Richmond area. Anytime you donate to VLPP, your money helps us provide these much-needed services to our patients.

Our mission is to ensure that individuals and families have the freedom, information, and ability to make their own informed reproductive choices. We believe that each individual has a basic right to control his/her reproductive life. Individual control will lead to a better quality of life and stronger families and communities. Reproductive health decisions must be voluntary and private.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia (PPAV)

According to their website, PPAV is a statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to preserve and broaden reproductive freedom through legislation, public education, electoral activity and litigation in the Commonwealth of Virginia. PPAV works to ensure that individuals and families have the freedom, information, and ability to make their own informed reproductive choices.

Your donation to PPAV goes to their electoral and lobbying efforts.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

PPFA is the national organization, while our clinic, VLPP, is one Planned Parenthood affiliate. Donations to PPFA supports their national and international programs

The mission of Planned Parenthood Federation of America shall be to provide leadership in

• ensuring the provision of comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual
• advocating public policies that guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services
• providing educational programs that enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality
• promoting research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encouraging the understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications