About Us

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania Advocates (PPSPA) is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit 501 (c)(4) organization formed as the political arm of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania. PPSPA engages in educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing. The mission of PPSPA is to encourage and protect informed individual choice regarding reproductive health care, advocate public policies that guarantee the right to choice and full and nondiscriminatory access to reproductive health care, and foster and preserve a social and political climate favorable to the exercise of reproductive choice through voter education, candidate endorsement and other means.

Why Get Involved in Electoral Politics?

By participating in electoral politics, we help create a climate that guarantees reproductive choices as a fundamental right for all citizens. Our goal is to gain pro-choice seats in the legislatures in order to better reflect the views of the majority of Pennsylvania voters. The legislative branches of government also have the power to confirm judicial nominees.

Since its inception in 1986, PPSP Advocates has endorsed pro-choice candidates, both Republican and Democratic, in hundreds of races for the State House and Senate. PPSPA assists candidates by recruiting volunteers, phone banking, coordinating press conferences and rallies, writing letters to the editors of local newspapers, and getting out the vote. Every election year, PPSP Advocates publishes a voter’s guide that lists candidates’ positions on choice and family planning. In addition, PPSP Advocates works with the Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania PAC (political action committee), the only PAC in the state dedicated to advancing the mission of Planned Parenthood through active participation in the electoral process.

PPSP Advocates is a 501(c)(4) organization. Contributions to PPSP Advocates are not tax deductible as charitable contributions. Contributions may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates.