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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2009
4:56 PM

CONTACT: Planned Parenthood
Tait Sye or Brannon Jordan, 202-973-4882

Planned Parenthood Applauds Bipartisan Legislation Aimed at Restoring Access to Affordable Birth Control

Prevention Through Affordable Access Act to Bring Down Birth Control Costs at College Clinics

WASHINGTON - January 13 - Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today praised members of the U.S. House of Representatives for the introduction of The Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that will provide a no-cost technical fix to restore eligibility for college health centers and safety-net providers to obtain low-cost birth control, and pass the savings on to college students and low-income women. The bill (HR 398) was introduced by Representative Joseph Crowley (D-NY)and has bipartisan support.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate nearly 880 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.
Posted in Politics, reproductive rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 7, 2009
11:36 AM

CONTACT: Planned Parenthood
Tait Sye or Brannon Jordan, 202-973-4882

Planned Parenthood Applauds Introduction of Prevention First Act in US Senate

Bill Prioritizes Family Planning and Prevention of Unintended Pregnancies

WASHINGTON - January 7 - As the nation’s leading advocate and provider of women’s health care, including reproductive health services, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPPFA) applauds the introduction of the Prevention First Act (S. 21) in the United States Senate on the opening day of the 111th Congress.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate nearly 880 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.
Posted in reproductive rights

New Rule for Health Providers Stirs Objections

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, in its final days, issued a federal rule Thursday reinforcing protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and other procedures because of religious or moral objections.

Critics say the protections are so broad they limit a patient's right to get care and accurate information. For example, they fear the rule could make it possible for a pharmacy clerk to refuse to sell birth control pills without ramifications from an employer.

Posted in after bush, healthcare, reproductive rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2008
11:44 AM

CONTACT: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Ted Miller, 202.973.3032

Bush Further Taints Legacy by Attacking Birth Control

NARAL Pro-Choice America vows to keep fighting dangerous Bush regulation that could undermine reproductive-health services

WASHINGTON - December 18 - Today, Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, expressed extreme disappointment over the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) issue of the final Bush administration rule that could undermine women's access to essential health-care services, including birth control.

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Posted in reproductive rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 17, 2008
5:43 PM

CONTACT: Population Action International

Statement on the Omnibus Spending Bill/Contraceptives Exemption

WASHINGTON - December 17 - Statement by Amy Coen, President/CEO of Population Action International, on the omnibus spending bill that omits a provision that would have reduced the need for abortions in developing countries:

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Posted in reproductive rights

Bush-Era Abortion Rules Face Possible Reversal

With the US Capitol in the background, hundreds of thousands of pro-choice supporters take part in the 'March For Women's Lives,' on the Mall in Washington, April 25, 2004. Protesters massed to show support for abortion rights and opposition to Bush administration policies on family planning and other reproductive health issues. (Stephen Boitano/Reuters)

WASHINGTON - The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a "right of conscience" allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to on moral grounds, including abortion but possibly birth control and other health care as well.

In transition offices across town, officials in the incoming Obama administration have begun considering how and when to undo it.

Posted in after bush, reproductive rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2008
11:10 AM

CONTACT: ACLU

Lorraine Kenny, (212) 549-2634 or (917) 532-1623; media@aclu.org

Bush Administration Blocks Medical Services for Immigrant Teens in US Care

ACLU Seeks Documents Outlining Government Policies on Teens' Access To Reproductive Health Services

NEW YORK - November 17 - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal court to order the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to release documents outlining U.S. policy limiting refugee and undocumented teenagers' access to important reproductive health services, including contraceptives and abortion. The ACLU filed today's legal papers after ACF ignored a Freedom of Information Act request from the ACLU dated August 19, 2008.

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Posted in civil liberties, immigrant rights, reproductive rights

A Quick Sigh of Relief, Now Let's Get to Work Rebuilding Reproductive Rights

The election of Barack Obama heralds at long last a season of promise and opportunity: the chance to improve the lives of millions of Americans and people throughout the world by ending the Bush administration's horrific war on women and making reproductive health a priority for U.S. law and policy. Yet earlier this fall, I said that no matter who won in November, those of us on the front lines of the fight for reproductive rights and health care would have our work cut out for us.

Posted in beyond obama, reproductive rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2008
4:36 PM

CONTACT: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Pregnant Women Desperate for Free Emergency Care in Haiti

Doctors Without Borders Struggling to Provide Care

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - November 6 - Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) are struggling to provide free, quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.

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Posted in healthcare, reproductive rights, Haiti

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 5, 2008
3:04 PM

CONTACT: Planned Parenthood
Diane Quest, 202-973-4851

Colorado Voters Defeate Dangerous Amendment and Put Women's Health and Safety First

WASHINGTON - November 5 - Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) stands with voters in Colorado who resoundingly rejected by a three to one margin a ballot initiative that would have eliminated a woman's ability to make personal, private decisions about her health care. Amendment 48 sought to grant legal rights to a fertilized egg. It could have banned all abortions and could have been used to block stem cell research and in vitro fertilization, among other reproductive health services.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate more than 880 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.
Posted in reproductive rights
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