Above, UHPP staff and volunteers joined Planned Parenthood supporters from across the country in Washington, D.C. to lobby for health care reform on December 2. All together, over 1000 people attended and over 100 lobby visits took place. Thanks, once again, to the courageous and stalwart group who made this very successful lobby day possible. 
UHPP staff and supporters in Washington, D.C. with Congressman Paul Tonko.
S.T.A.R.S. Burma Shave for Health Care Reform
Above, Columbia County peer educators Jon T., Dylan S., Chris T., Angela M., Olivia W., Amber M., Isabel R., Danielle G., and Letycia T. pose for a group shot at their "Burma Shave" health care reform visibility event in Hudson on September 2.
The peers, all local students and educators in the Seriously Talking About Responsible Sex (S.T.A.R.S.) program through UHPP, held signs and collected signatures on their petition demanding the inclusion of women's health care and community health care providers in any the national health care reform legislation. Without access to community providers like Planned Parenthood across the country, many people would no longer be able to get the basic preventative health services they need—and if reproductive health care doesn't make the bill, women will be worse off after reform than they were before it. This just wouldn't be right, and our peers told the Hudson community so!
To read the story on the peers' event in the Register Star, click here.
To read more about health care reform and get involved in future events, click here.
UHPP Goes to Washington D.C.
On Thursday, July 17, UHPP and PP Mohawk Hudson staff and peer educators lobbied U.S. Representatives Paul Tonko (pictured) and Scott Murphy in Washington DC on health care reform. Both Congressmen pledged to ensure that reproductive health care services are included in any health care reform package and that women will continue to have access to community health providers like Planned Parenthood.
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For more information, contact Blue Carreker at blue@uhpp.org
