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Use the links below to read Planned Parenthood’s most recent press releases.  For media inquiries, please contact us at 212-261-4650 or 202-973-4882.


05.14.08 | Planned Parenthood Celebrates National Women’s Health Week
05.06.08 | Planned Parenthood Recognizes Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
04.29.08 | Planned Parenthood Celebrates National Volunteer Week — 20,000 Strong
04.23.08 | Planned Parenthood Brings College Students to Capitol Hill To Lobby to Restore Affordable Birth Control
04.23.08 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Congressional Investigation Into Failure of Abstinence-Only Programs
03.28.08 | Planned Parenthood Honors Outstanding Affiliates and Volunteers with Annual Excellence Awards
03.28.08 | Pro-Choice Clergy Discuss Role of Religion in Politics and the Call to Social Responsibility at Annual Interfaith Clergy Breakfast
03.27.08 | Planned Parenthood Holds Capitol Hill Briefing on REAL Sex Ed
03.27.08 | Planned Parenthood Arizona CEO Bryan Howard Receives Highest Honor for Leadership
03.27.08 | Celebrities and Advocates Join Planned Parenthood to Honor Exceptional Contributions
03.25.08 | Planned Parenthood Celebrates 2008 “Back Up Your Birth Control” Campaign Day of Action To Ensure Access to and Awareness of Emergency Contraception
03.18.08 | 15 Editorials Echo Planned Parenthood’s Push for Comprehensive Sex Ed
03.14.08 | Editorials Across the Country Echo Planned Parenthood’s Call for Comprehensive Sex Ed
03.11.08 | Planned Parenthood President Statement On CDC Report on Teen STI Rate
03.04.08 | Kansas Grand Jury Clears Planned Parenthood
03.03.08 | Planned Parenthood Statement on Pediatrics Study: Beyond the “Big Talk”
02.29.08 | A Letter to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri (PPKM) Clients from PPKM President and CEO Peter Brownlie
02.26.08 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America Criticizes Anti-Choice Vitter Amendment
02.13.08 | PROPER ATTIRE: REQUIRED FOR ENTRY TM
02.08.08 | Planned Parenthood Accepts Nominations For 2008 Maggie Awards for Media Excellence
02.07.08 | Planned Parenthood Commemorates National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
02.04.08 | Planned Parenthood Calls on FDA to Ensure Continued Patient Safety
02.04.08 | President's Backwards Budget Cuts Family Planning Programs
01.01.08 | January is National Cervical Cancer Screening Month
12.27.07 | Planned Parenthood Scores Victories in Signed Budget Bill
12.26.07 | PPFA President Statement on Planned Parenthood of New Mexico Arson
12.20.07 | Planned Parenthood Praises New Mexico’s Rejection of Federal Funds For Wasteful Abstinence-Only Programs
12.20.07 | Planned Parenthood Statement on CDC Sex Ed Study
12.19.07 | Planned Parenthood Scores Two Legislative Victories in Budget Bill
12.07.07 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards on New Mexico Clinic Arson
12.05.07 | PPFA President Statement on CDC Report on Teen Birth Rate
11.28.07 | World AIDS Day Highlights Importance of Prevention
11.15.07 | Global Nonprofit Planned Parenthood Celebrates National Philanthropy Day
11.13.07 | President Vetoes Preventive Health Care for Women
11.13.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Senators Obama, McCaskill, Kennedy and Murray for leadership on Prevention Through Affordable Access Act
11.08.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Congressional Expansion of Family Planning
11.07.07 | Nation's Leading Reproductive Health Care Advocate and Provider Calls for End to Abstinence-Only Federal Funding
11.01.07 | PLANNED PARENTHOOD APPLAUDS REP. CROWLEY’S PREVENTION THROUGH AFFORDABLE ACCESS ACT
10.23.07 | Planned Parenthood Mourns the Death of Griswold v. Connecticut Attorney Catherine Roraback
10.19.07 | Phill Kline Continues Political Crusade Against Women's Health
10.18.07 | Congressional Leaders Join Planned Parenthood in Calling For Replacement of Anti-Family Planning Advocate to Head Nation’s Family Planning Program
10.18.07 | Phill Kline Continues Assault On Planned Parenthood
10.17.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Bush to Replace Anti-Birth Control Extremist Orr
10.15.07 | Planned Parenthood Supports Bill to Study Postpartum Depression
10.02.07 | Planned Parenthood Opens Aurora Health Center
10.01.07 | CATHOLIC CHARITIES’ OPPOSITION TO WOMEN’S HEALTH LAW IS PUT TO REST BY U.S. SUPREME COURT
09.27.07 | Planned Parenthood Praises Passage of Children’s Health Care Bill
09.20.07 | Planned Parenthood Responds to Aurora, IL, Ruling
09.20.07 | Statement of Steve Trombley President and CEO, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area September 20, 2007
09.17.07 | Statement of Steve Trombley President and CEO, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area September 17, 2007
09.13.07 | Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area Seeks Federal Court Order Allowing Aurora Health Center to Open as Scheduled on September 18th
08.27.07 | Planned Parenthood Urges Bush Administration To Appoint an Attorney General Who Will Stand Up For Women’s Health and Protect Privacy Rights
08.24.07 | Court Ruling Protects Patient Privacy
08.24.07 | One Year After Over-the-Counter Approval, Planned Parenthood Continues Campaign to Ensure Access to Emergency Contraception
08.02.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds House For Supporting Children and Women’s Health
07.27.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds House Vote to Support Women’s Health and Prevention Services
07.19.07 | Congress Stands Up for Women’s Health
07.13.07 | Opinion Survey Shows Broad Support in U.S. for Action to Bolster Reproductive Health Care
07.11.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Surgeon General Nominee to Pledge Support For Science, Women’s Health and Safety
06.28.07 | Attorney General Ends Inquisition into Medical Records
06.27.07 | Letter to CBS President and CEO Mr. Leslie Moonves
06.27.07 | Outrage Grows at Refusal of CBS and FOX to Broadcast Condom Ad
06.27.07 | Letter to FOX President of Entertainment Mr. Peter Liguori
06.25.07 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America Welcomes Ellen Golombek, New Vice President for External Affairs
06.21.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds House Vote to Support International Family Planning
06.18.07 | Planned Parenthood Criticizes FOX and CBS Networks for Refusing to Broadcast Condom Ad
06.13.07 | Prevention First is Focus of Planned Parenthood Services
06.07.07 | PPFA Celebrates Griswold Decision
06.06.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds House and Senate Introduction of ABC Act
05.25.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Newly Nominated U.S. Surgeon General To Promote Prevention; Respect and Protect Women’s Health
05.22.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds FDA Approval of Lybrel
05.17.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Congress to Pass Community Health Care Workers Act
05.04.07 | Missouri Supreme Court Rules on Teen Health Endangerment Laws
04.25.07 | Planned Parenthood Announces 2007 Maggie Award Winners
04.24.07 | Planned Parenthood Activists Protest Supreme Court Decision On Wednesday, April 25
04.19.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Introduction of Freedom of Choice Act
04.18.07 | U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Federal Abortion Ban
04.17.07 | Planned Parenthood Celebrates National Volunteer Week
04.13.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Congress to Get REAL About Abstinence
04.09.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Congress To Support Family Planning
04.04.07 | Planned Parenthood Activists Nationwide Get Wal-Mart to Change Its Birth Control Policy at Pharmacies: Emergency Contraception Will Be Stocked and Dispensed Without Discrimination or Delay
04.02.07 | Another Anti-Sex Education, Anti-Choice Bush Appointee Steps Down
03.30.07 | Planned Parenthood Honors Reproductive Rights Champions at Celebrity-Studded Gala Event
03.30.07 | Planned Parenthood Honors Outstanding Affiliates and Volunteers with Annual Excellence Awards
03.30.07 | Planned Parenthood Teen Summit Trains Young Activists to Stand Up for Sex Education and Health Care
03.30.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Bush Administration To Replace Anti-Birth Control Advocate Keroack With Qualified, Pro-Family Planning Public Health Expert
03.29.07 | Bush Administration Appointee Keroack Was Unqualified to Run American's Family Planning Program
03.29.07 | Planned Parenthood and Clergy Examine “Religion, Politics and Reproductive Justice” at Annual Interfaith Clergy Breakfast
03.23.07 | Governor Haley Barbour Jeopardizes the Future of Women’s Health in Mississippi
03.22.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds House and Senate Introduction of REAL Act
03.16.07 | Eighth Circuit Upholds Excluding Birth Control from Health Care Plans
02.21.07 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America Introduces the Pro-Choice Cell Phone Powered by Working Assets
02.13.07 | Planned Parenthood Holds Nationwide Demonstrations On February 13
02.05.07 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Introduction of Prevention First Act in U.S. House of Representatives
02.05.07 | President's Budget Proposal Ignores America's Family Planning Needs
02.01.07 | Planned Parenthood Mourns the Death of Columnist Molly Ivins
01.24.07 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Bush Administration To Rethink Health Care Proposal
01.22.07 | Planned Parenthood Sets Prevention-First Health Care Agenda
01.02.07 | Planned Parenthood Launches Campaign for Expanded Access to Birth Control, Highlights Appointment of Eric Keroack as Bad Medicine
12.21.06 | Opposition to Bush’s Anti-Birth Control Appointee Grows
12.05.06 | Free Emergency Contraception Available At Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Health Centers on Dec. 6
11.21.06 | Planned Parenthood Calls on Secretary Leavitt to Pull Keroack
11.16.06 | Bush Appointment of Anti-Birth Control Advocate to Key Health Post Shows Disregard for the Health and Safety of Underserved Communities
11.08.06 | Planned Parenthood Asks Supreme Court to Protect Women's Health in Case Challenging Federal Abortion Ban
10.19.06 | HotSpots (Security Briefings): September 2006
10.06.06 | Planned Parenthood Joins Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
10.05.06 | More than 3,000 Activists Raise Funds To Fight South Dakota Abortion Ban
09.29.06 | Teen Endangerment Act Stalled in Congress
09.28.06 | Activists Across the Nation Hold Potluck Fundraisers to Fight South Dakota Abortion Ban
09.26.06 | House Passes Teen Endangerment Act
09.14.06 | The Nation Mourns the Passing of Governor Ann W. Richards (1933 – 2006)
09.06.06 | Abstinence-Only Harms HIV Prevention
08.24.06 | Emergency Contraception OTC
08.01.06 | Senators Question FDA Politics
07.31.06 | FDA May Move on Plan B
07.25.06 | Dangerous Family Restriction Act
07.21.06 | Stop Funding Dangerous Programs
07.18.06 | FDA Approves Implanon
07.17.06 | "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" Report
06.29.06 | HPV Recommendations
06.29.06 | Protect Medicaid Patients
06.29.06 | HPV Immunization
06.21.06 | Condoms Help Prevent HPV
06.19.06 | U.S. Supreme Court to Review Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood
06.17.06 | Louisiana Criminalizes Abortion
06.17.06 | La. Will Criminalize Abortion
06.14.06 | Support Teen Health and Safety
06.08.06 | Cancer Vaccine Approved
06.07.06 | Discrimination Amendment Fails
06.02.06 | La. Gov. Supports Abortion Ban
05.30.06 | Signatures Filed in South Dakota
05.25.06 | House Blocks UNFPA Funds
05.18.06 | HPV Vaccine
05.15.06 | Support Contraceptive Access
05.12.06 | More Questions in FDA Delay on EC
05.11.06 | HIMMAA Defeated
05.10.06 | Senators Stand Up for Prevention
05.09.06 | Oppose "Lose Your Benefits Bill"
05.08.06 | PPFA Supports EC Campaign
04.20.06 | teenwire.com® Is Webby Nominee
04.07.06 | The Freedom of Choice Act
04.04.06 | Flaws of Global Abstinence-Until-Marriage Programs
03.31.06 | Planned Parenthood Honors Outstanding Affiliates And Volunteers with Annual Excellence Awards
03.31.06 | Nationally Recognized Rev. Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite Keynotes Planned Parenthood Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
03.30.06 | Representatives from 43 States Demand Congress Protect Women's Health and Rights
03.30.06 | Planned Parenthood Honors Dedication to Women's Health and Rights
03.24.06 | Effort to Repeal SD Abortion Ban
03.20.06 | Servicios de abortos inducidos por medicamentos con mifepristona en Planned Parenthood
03.20.06 | Declaración de Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH Vicepresidenta de Asuntos Médicos Planned Parenthood Federation of America
03.17.06 | A Statement from PPFA
03.17.06 | Mifepristone Medication Abortion Services at Planned Parenthood
03.15.06 | Women's Health Benefits at Stake
03.15.06 | The Lose Your Benefits Bill
03.14.06 | Michigan Abortion Ban Put on Hold While Challenge Proceeds
03.09.06 | Planned Parenthood Activists in 33 Cities Will Demonstrate Thursday, March 9, in National Day of Solidarity
03.08.06 | Clinics Stay Open
03.08.06 | Harmful Health Bill Introduced
03.06.06 | SD Governor Signs Abortion Ban
02.28.06 | Contraceptive Access Lags
02.22.06 | South Dakota Bans Abortion
02.21.06 | Court Takes Abortion Ban Case
02.16.06 | EC on Boston Legal
02.14.06 | MA Pharmacy Board Rules on EC
02.13.06 | Science First on Condom Label
02.13.06 | PPFA's Comments to the FDA on Condom Labeling
02.03.06 | Victory for Medical Privacy
02.03.06 | EC Access at Wal-Mart Demanded
01.31.06 | Alito Confirmed to Supreme Court
01.31.06 | Court Strikes Down Abortion Ban
01.31.06 | Real State of the Union
01.24.06 | PPFA Urges Senate to Reject Alito
01.18.06 | Court Ruling in Ayotte Case
01.13.06 | New Anti-Alito Ad Launched
01.09.06 | PPFA Announces Next President
01.05.06 | "Crony" Bypasses Congress
01.05.06 | Federal Abortion Ban and Alito
12.22.05 | Congress Cuts Family Planning
12.21.05 | DOJ Refuses FOIA
12.21.05 | The Year in Review
12.08.05 | Move to Repeal Global Gag Rule
12.02.05 | Alito Memo, Strategy to Gut Roe
11.30.05 | Supreme Court Hears Abortion Case
11.30.05 | Statement on Ayotte Supreme Court Hearing
11.28.05 | Missouri Abortion Ban Struck Down
11.21.05 | FDA Should Stick to Science
11.17.05 | Missouri Judge Upholds New Abortion Law
11.17.05 | Target's Pharmacist Refusal Policy
11.14.05 | FDA Decision on EC Was Political
11.14.05 | Alito on Constitution and Abortion
11.10.05 | Target Takes Aim at Women
11.09.05 | Voters Protect Teen Safety
11.03.05 | Planned Parenthood Applauds Bi-Partisan Effort to Bring Emergency Contraception Over the Counter
11.02.05 | Poll on Judge Samuel Alito
10.31.05 | Bush Nominates Samuel Alito
10.27.05 | Miers Withdraws Nomination
10.21.05 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America Maggie Awards 2006
10.20.05 | PPFA Challenges Federal Abortion Ban
10.19.05 | Sex Ed Video Breaks New Ground on Body Image
10.17.05 | WSJ: Miers Would Overturn Roe
10.12.05 | Standing Up for Women's Health
10.03.05 | Miers Nominated to Court
09.29.05 | Judge Roberts Confirmed
09.29.05 | Albertsons Censors Seventeen
09.27.05 | State Judge Blocks Governor Blunt's New Abortion Law
09.23.05 | Grant Assists Victims of Katrina
09.23.05 | Commissioner of FDA Resigns
09.22.05 | Dismay over Vote on Roberts
09.22.05 | Missouri Judge Hears Case Against Teen Endangerment Law
09.22.05 | Katrina Evacuees Qualify for Free Birth Control and Other Reproductive Health Care Services
09.16.05 | Bush Administration Withholds UNFPA Funding for Fourth Consecutive Year
09.15.05 | Planned Parenthood Sues State Over Health Endangerment Law
09.15.05 | Testimony of Karen Pearl
09.14.05 | Planned Parenthood Press Conference Announcing Opposition to the Nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States
09.12.05 | Planned Parenthood Delivers 100,000 Petitions to Senate Judiciary Committee Affirming Support for Roe v. Wade
09.08.05 | PPFA Demands Documents
09.08.05 | Photos: Press Conference Regarding Medical Privacy Hearing in Kansas
09.08.05 | Planned Parenthood Will Assist Hurricane Victims in New Mexico
09.08.05 | Medical Privacy Hearing in KS
09.08.05 | Planned Parenthood of Indiana Offers Help to Victims of Hurricane Katrina
09.06.05 | Role of Chief Justice Too Important for a Nominee Who Has Not Expressed Support for Women's Health and Safety
09.04.05 | Statement on Passing of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
09.02.05 | Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee Offers Help to Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina
09.02.05 | PPFA to Testify at Court Hearings
09.02.05 | Planned Parenthood of Nebraska & Council Bluffs Responds to Hurricane Refugees with Free Services
09.02.05 | Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando Offers Help to the Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina
09.02.05 | Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region Offers Help to the Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina
09.02.05 | Planned Parenthood Heart of Illinois Offers Help to the Women Affected by Hurricane Katrina
08.31.05 | FDA Official Resigns
08.30.05 | Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas Offers Free Birth Control and Emergency Contraception to Women Fleeing Hurricane Katrina
08.26.05 | FDA Defers Decision on Plan B Over-the-Counter Application
08.26.05 | FDA Delay On EC
08.24.05 | Prepared Remarks of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
08.22.05 | COWC Files Federal Suit to Protect Patients Records
08.16.05 | Illinois Rules on Access
08.09.05 | Ayotte Case Could Jeopardize Women's Health and Safety
08.05.05 | Attorney General Refusal to Provide Robe