Press Releases

This January, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s leading women’s health care provider and advocate, is reminding women to get screened for cervical cancer. January is National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Kicks Off National HIV Awareness Month

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

New worldwide estimates of maternal mortality rates released by four UN agencies yesterday show a 34 percent decline over an18-year period.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America said today that emergency contraception should be available over the counter without age restrictions, citing solid scientific and medical research showing that it is safe and effective in preventing unintended pregnancy.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards urged the House of Representatives to reject the budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) when it comes up for a vote today. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is anything but a “Path to Prosperity” — it is an out-of-touch proposal that hurts women and their families.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America denounced today’s House Judiciary Committee passage of dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that would ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide — interfering in a woman’s ability to make personal decisions about her pregnancy in consultation with her doctor.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Amendment to House Homeland Security Appropriations Bill Is Another Attack on Women’s Health

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

House Bill Would Deny Access to Abortion in Virtually All Circumstances and Subject Doctors to Criminal Penalties

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Activists Hit Farmers' Markets, Backyard Barbecues, to Gather Thousands of Signatures in Support of Reproductive Rights

Jan. 30, 2014 • National