Family Planning Clinics in NYC

Family planning centers in New York City encompass a wide range of reproductive services for both men and women to help with anticipating and timing the birth of their children. In most cases, family planning centers provide counseling on birth control options and may also provide contraceptives. All family planning centers provide reproductive health counseling and can help women and couples decide the outcome of a pregnancy. While most organizations will discuss options for parenting, adoption and terminating a pregnancy, not all family planning centers offer abortion services or referrals.

Non-Profit

Planned Parenthood of NYC (PPNYC) has clinics in three boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Like all Planned Parenthood centers, PPNYC provides reproductive counseling and services for both men and women of all ages and income levels, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Services include birth control, pregnancy testing, abortion, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and services and support specific to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

Like many pregnancy support centers, the Midtown Pregnancy Support Center in midtown Manhattan is a Christian organization that supports alternatives to abortion. They provide free emotional support and counseling for both men and women regarding parenting, abortion and adoption. They offer free pregnancy self-tests with physician referrals and adoption agency referrals. Like most pregnancy centers, this center does not give referrals for abortions. They do, however, provide post-abortion counseling services for women who need emotional support after the termination of a pregnancy.

Private

Any private physician can help refer you to a family planning center. Because there are fewer restrictions on abortion in New York than in many other states, many private obstetric and gynecological groups in New York City offer both surgical and non-surgical (medication) abortion services in addition to other family planning services.

The Manhattan Women's Medical Center, Eastside Gynecology and physician groups that belong to the All Women's of New York association are some of many private health centers in New York City that provide counseling and services concerning women's birth control options, gynecological needs and surgical and non-surgical abortion methods.

Public

The Family Planning Benefit Program (FPBP) is a New York State Medicaid program available through the NYC Department of Social Services to low-income New Yorkers who are legal residents of New York State. This program, which is administered through hospitals, clinics and private physicians and other health-care workers, provides pre-pregnancy counseling, reproductive health screening, birth control supplies, emergency contraception (morning-after pill) and sterilization services to those who meet the income and residency requirements. FPBP is strictly a family planning program; abortions and pregnancy services are not included in this plan.

The Women's Health Free Clinic at the New York City Free Clinic, run by the New York University Langone Medical Center, provides gynecological services for women who are uninsured and meet low-income requirements. They offer routine pre-pregnancy counseling and services such as exams, screenings and referrals as well as contraception and pregnancy testing. For pregnant women, they also provide options counseling and medication abortion.