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The backlash against reproductive rights across North America is hitting Planned Parenthood Ottawa, says its president Lauren Dobson-Hughes.

Dobson-Hughes recently took to Twitter to ask for support in the face of attacks she said are being levelled at donors to the organization, which that provides counselling, sex education and other services, to intimidate them.

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Planned Parenthood Ottawa does not provide any clinical services, including abortions.

“An environment that has been created over the last year or more where health care for women, youth or trans people is stigmatized and a small group of people create fear around it in order to dissuade funders,” she said.

Planned Parenthood is under attack in the United States, where anti-abortion activists are trying to get its funding cut in Republican-controlled states. In the U.S., Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of reproductive health services, with 97 per cent of its clinical work being breast and cervical screening, HIV screening, counselling and contraception. Three per cent of its clinical visits are for abortions.