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"Planned Parenthood" is a non-profit organization that advocates for women's reproductive rights.
It says "advocates for women's reproductive rights" but I wonder why there is "for" here though to advocate is a transitive verb. Do you need "for" here? Or is this just a typo?
It is correct. For example, Wiktionary, sense 3
- (intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.
or Cambridge, with [ T ] meaning transitive and [ I ] meaning intransitive:
verb [ I/T ]
to speak in support of an idea or course of action:
[ T ] Some people advocate teaching to the test.
[ I ] The organization advocates for human rights.
It is possible that some learners' dictionaries don't have the full range of this word's use.
