Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood is dedicated to working with others across the country to ensure that any health care reform plan passed by Congress will: 

1) Ensure that comprehensive reproductive health care services, including birth control, GYN exams, pregnancy testing, cancer screening, STI testing and treatment, pregnancy options counseling and referrals, and abortion services are covered as basic services available to all.  

2) Ensure that community-based health care providers like Planned Parenthood are included in health plan networks.

 We need volunteers to help us advocate for these goals as Congress and the White House engage in difficult and challenging negotiations this fall.  Our Senators and Congressional Representatives need to hear from us. Join us as we make visits to local legislative offices, write letters to local paper, phone bank into Congressional offices, canvass local communities and stage visibility events. We must work hard to protect these services. Women cannot be worse off after health care reform than we are now.

To get involved, contact blue@uhpp.org or call 434-5678 x 133. Click here to see our past events.

Most Recent Event

October 20: National Day of Action—We are coming down to the final weeks of negotiation on health care reform. Debate and voting is expected on the final versions of  both the House and Senate bills. To ensure that our goals—to ensure access to the full range of reproductive health services, including abortion, and to community health care providers like Planned Parenthood—are part of the final bills PPFA has called for a National Day of Action next Tuesday, October 20. 2009. To be involved:

1.      Look out for an email on October 20 asking you to contact your members of Congress and then, take action!  OR

2.      Sign up to participate in national phone banking from your home, your college dorm, or from UHPP.

3.      Volunteer to table at a UHPP health center and help patients call their members of Congress.

Email blue@uhpp.org for information.

UHPP employees, volunteers and activists at President Obama's visit on September 21st