PPFA Maggie Awards for Media Excellence 1978–2005

2005

• Glamour magazine for "Yes, You Can Save Women's Lives"
• CBS-TV for Cold Case — "Volunteer" episode
• Rev. Tom Davis for Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances
• Kinsey
• Vera Drake

2004

• Women's eNews for overall excellence in reporting on reproductive rights and health
• Working Assets for covering reproductive rights and health onhttp://www.workingassets.com/ and for donating a portion of the proceeds of its various services to nonprofit organizations, including Planned Parenthood

2003

• Human Rights Watch for its website, http://www.hrw.org/
• The WB Television Network for Everwood — "The Kissing Bridge" episode
• People magazine for "An Iowa Mystery"
• HBO films for Real Woman Have Curves
• HBO for Six Feet Under for its unique depiction of sexuality, gay and straight

2002

• Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe, special award for consistently insightful opinions about the need to protect women's reproductive health and rights
• San Diego Union-Tribune, for "Girl and Boy, Interrupted"
• Ann Telnaes, syndicated cartoonist, Tribune Media Service, for editorial cartoons in support of reproductive rights
• Essence magazine for "In Case of Emergency" and "If All Else Fails"
• ABC News 20/20 for "Abortion & Terrorism"
• MPH Entertainment, Inc. for The History of Sex in the 20th Century
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) for its Web site, http://www.siecus.org/
• NBC-TV for Law & Order: Criminal Intent — "The Third Horseman" episode
• NBC-TV for Days of Our Lives for daytime drama about sexual and reproductive health
• HBO for Sex and the City for its treatment of sexual and reproductive health issues
• Daimler-Chrysler for a television advertisement that uses sexuality in a positive and humorous way
• Fast Company magazine for "Planned Parenthood's 25-Year Plan"

2001

• Patt Morrison, columnist, Los Angeles Times — special award for Spontaneous Activism
• Los Angeles Times for coverage of reproductive health issues
• Glamour magazine for "Why I Risk My Life to Do Abortions"
• Richard North Patterson for Protect and Defend
• The Dallas Morning News for editorials on family planning
• Queen Latifah/Telepictures Productions for "Teens Desperate to Have Babies: Convincing Them to Wait"
• Hispanic Radio Network for "Mundo 2000 — International Women's Day"
• The Feminist Majority Foundation for their website,http://www.feminist.org/
• Joan Osborne for advocacy and education through music
• Rod Lurie for The Contender
• NBC-TV for Third Watch — "Faith" episode
• ABC-TV for General Hospital for daytime drama about sexual and reproductive health

1999-2000

• Teen People magazine for coverage of our issues
• Mike Peters for cartoons supporting reproductive health and rights issues
• Natalie Marie Angier for Woman: An Intimate Geography
• Judy Mann for columns covering our issues
• NBC-TV for 3rd Rock from the Sun — "Sex and the Sally" episode
• MTV/Kaiser Family Foundation for True Life: I Need Sex RX
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation for their website, http://www.kff.org/
• NBC-TV for The West Wing — pilot episode
• Ani DiFranco for "Hello Birmingham"
• Eve Ensler for The Vagina Monologues
• John Irving/Miramax Films for The Cider House Rules

1998

• Glamour magazine for "The Truth About Abortion and Women's Health"
• The Village Voice for "Roe v. Wade: 25 Years Later"
• The Metro Times for "Matter of the Heart"
• Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA) for "Dangerous Liaisons"
• Waco Tribune-Herald for columns on reproductive health care and freedom
• KCRG-TV for "Dangerous Liaisons"
• KRON-TV for "First Cut: AIDS Update"
• CBS-TV Cosby — "Now Is The Time, The Walrus Said" episode
• Youth Radio for "Youth Voices on Sex"
• ABCNEWS.com for "Maternal Morality Worldwide: Dying for Motherhood"

1997

• Sarasota magazine for "Sex, Lies and Politics"
• The Houston Chronicle for editorials on family planning, reproductive rights, and Planned Parenthood
• The Washington Post for a series of cartoons on family planning, legislation, and abortion rights by Herb Block
• HBO for If These Walls Could Talk
• KRON-TV for "First Cut 97-05"
• NBC-TV for "The More You Know" PSAs
• Hispanic Radio Network for "Buscando la Belleza" (Searching For Beauty and Health)

1996

• Self magazine for "What's New in Birth Control?"
• The Nation magazine for Katha Pollitt's columns on the abortion issue
• The Chicago Tribune for "Gambling With Life: Why Parents Defy Odds and Circumstance to Have More Babies"
• HBO for The Dying Rooms
• HBO for Sandra's Web: A Mother's Diary
• ABC for Home Improvement — "The Vasectomy One" episode
• NBC-TV for Dateline NBC for "The Toughest Choice"

1995

• Glamour magazine for "An Abortion Doctor's Diary of Terror"
• Ser Padres magazine for "Niñas Que Son Madres"
• The Boston Globe for coverage of December 30 murders at the Brookline, MA, clinics
• CNN for "Christian Soldiers"
• NBC-TV Dateline for "Dutch Treat"
• NBC-TV for Law and Order — "Progeny" episode
• Lucky Duck Productions, with Ogilvy Adams and Rinehart, for Smart Sex
• Youth Radio for "The Realities of Teen Pregnancy: A Day in My Life by Ayoka Medlock"
• Monitor Radio for "Population Perspective"
• Honorable Mention
  • The Beaumont Enterprise (TX) for "Kids Having Kids"

1994

• The Nation magazine for "Eastward, Christian Soldiers! Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia"
• Concord Monitor (NH) for series "Sex Education — Teen Realities"
• Chicago Tribune for series "Saving Our Children: When Kids Have Kids"
• Concentric Media and KTEH-TV for When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
• Home Box Office for Talking Sex: Making Love in the '90s
• KSBW-TV for Not Me: Innocence in the Time of AIDS
• WBBR 1130 AM for "Condom-Phobics"

1993

• The Philadelphia Daily News for "Out of Control"
• Daily Local News (West Chester, PA) for editorial cartoon by Rick Cole
• Glamour magazine for "Why Do We Romanticize the Fetus?"
• Health magazine for "The Birth Control Bind"
• Home Box Office for Life Stories: Families in Crisis for "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story"
• WHSW-TV 24 for "In Your interest/Teen Pregnancy"
• Media Works, Inc. for Sex Education in America: AIDS and Adolescence
• WHTZ-100 FM for "Z-100 Love Phones"

1992

• Glamour magazine for "Where Are the Doctors Who Will Do Abortions?"
• The San Diego Union for five-part series "Bedside Planners: Contraception in the '90s"
• The Washington Post for series of cartoons on family planning and legislation by Herb Block
• ABC-TV for Roseanne — "A Bitter Pill to Swallow" episode
• ABC News for PrimeTime Live for "Lying In Wait"
• ABC News for 20/20 for "Is This Our Future?"
• KING 5 TELEVISION for Sexual Survival
• Monitor Radio for "Women and AIDS"
• Honorable Mention
  • Univision Network News for "Buffalo Anti-Abortion Demonstrations" and for The Cristina Show for "Condomania"

1991

• The Washington Post for series of cartoons on family planning and legislation by Herb Block
• The Dallas Morning News for six-part series "Sex Lies and Big Brother: Sexual Tyranny in Romania"
• Glamour magazine for "Teenage and Pregnant" and "The Politics of Birth Control"
• NBC/Carsey Werner Co. for A Different World — "If I Should Die Before I Wake" episode
• World Monitor Television for "Women with AIDS"
• Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. for Peter Jennings Reporting: The New Civil War

1990

• San Francisco Examiner for series of columns on reproductive rights issues by Suzanne Salter
• Newsweek magazine for coverage of the abortion issue
• Lifetime Television for Ask Me Anything: How To Talk to Kids About Sex
• WPLG-TV for "AIDS en la Familia"
• Tribune Entertainment, Inc. for The Geraldo Rivera Show — "To Be Gay in the Midst of the AIDS Catastrophe"
• NBC-TV for L.A. Law — "Captain Hurt" episode

1989

• ABC-TV for 20/20 for "The Abortion Pill"
• NBC-TV for "Roe v. Wade" and A Different World — "No Means No" episode
• ABC Radio for "American Agenda: Abortion"
• New Woman magazine for "A Matter of Life and Love: One Woman's Story"
• Arkansas Gazette for "Children Having Children"

1988

• Essence magazine for "A Matter of Choice"
• Los Angeles Times for its series "Prenatal Care: Less Costs More"
• WSM Radio/Nashville for "AIDS: Plague of the '80s"
• NBC-TV for A Year in the Life — "Things You Should Know Before and After" episode
• NBC-TV for outstanding segments on AIDS and young people on Main Street
• ABC-TV for outstanding news segments on AIDS and contraceptive technology on Good Morning America and for World News Tonight for its series on world population

1987

• ABC-TV for made-for-TV-movie Daddy
• NBC-TV for "AIDS Composite"
• KING-TV for two-hour documentary Teen Sex: What about the Kids?
• Working Woman magazine for feature on "Where 'Boss' Stops and 'Friend' Begins"
• Alabama Journal for a series of articles titled "Teen Pregnancy: An Alabama Tragedy"

1986

• NBC-TV for St. Elsewhere — "Boom Boom Womb" and "To Tell the Truth" segments
• WIVB-TV for Family Secrets (Documentary)
• Vogue magazine for "Selling Chastity: The Sly New Attack on Your Sexual Freedom"
• The Washington Post for a six-part series "At Risk: Chronicles of Teen-Age Pregnancy"

1985

• ABC-TV for World News Tonight for "Almost Adults"
• ABC-TV for 20/20 for "Sex Education"
• NBC-TV for Today for "Sex Education"
• WJLA-TV for five-part series on "When Babies Have Babies"
• NBC Radio for "It Can Happen Anywhere" (child sexual abuse)
• WEEI Newsradio for "The Learning Center" (teenage sex and pregnancy)
• Youth News, Oakland, CA, for "Heartthrobs and Hormones" (teenage sex and pregnancy)
• The Boston Globe for a series of editorials supporting reproductive rights and reproductive health
• Mike Peters for an editorial cartoon satirizing the federal government's position on reproductive rights
• Glamour magazine for "The Battle Against Planned Parenthood" (Feature Article)
• Glamour magazine for "Why We Can't Be Silent About Anti-Abortion Tactics" (Feature Article)
• Image magazine, Texas Christian University, for "Smart Sex" (Feature Article)
• Ms. magazine for "The Fetus and The Law — Whose Life is it Anyway?" (Feature Article)
• Time magazine for "The Population Curse" (Cover Story)

1984

• ABC News' 20/20 for "Too Much, Too Soon"
• WCBS-TV for "Preventing Teen Pregnancy: The HUB Program"
• NBC-TV/UBU Productions/Paramount Television for Family Ties — "Ready or Not" episode
• KAMR-TV, KFDA-TV, and KVII-TV (Amarillo, TX) for a unique cooperative effort to promote 1983 National Family Sexuality Education Week
• Family Circle magazine for "What Kids Really Want to Know About Sex but Are Afraid to Ask"
• Seventeen magazine for "Sex and Your Body"
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch for "Children Having Children"
• The Bergen Record (NJ) for a series of four editorials

1983

• ABC News' Nightline for "Teen Contraception — The Baltimore Experiment," "Abortion Clinic Violence," and "Anti-Abortion Setback" (Television News)
• KPIX-TV for "The Snitch Rule" and "Snitch Rule Update" (Television Editorial)
• NBC-TV for Family Ties — "Oops" episode (Television Entertainment)
• WRKS-FM for "The Stork Doesn't Work Alone" (Radio Documentary)
• Parents magazine for "Genetic Counselors: How They Can Help and How They Can't" (Magazine Feature)
• Los Angeles Times for nine editorials on the subject of reproductive rights (Newspaper Editorial)
• Honorable mention certificates to:
  • KUHT-TV for A Baby Maybe: To Be or Not To Be a Parent(Television Documentary)
  • WFSB-TV for "Babies Shouldn't Die" (Television News)
  • Newsweek magazine for "Infertility" (Magazine Feature)
  • Family Circle magazine for "How Women Feel About Abortion: An Exclusive Family Circle Survey" (Magazine Feature)
  • Glamour magazine for "The Battle Over Abortion:" (Magazine News)
  • Charlotte News and Observer for "Growing Up in the '80's" (Newspaper Feature)
  • Gannett News Service for outstanding coverage of the issues surrounding abortion (Newspaper Feature)

1982

• Hearst/ABC Video Services for Where Do Babies Come From?(Television Documentaries)
• WDAY-TV for "Opening of the Fargo Abortion Clinic" (Television News)
• Glamour magazine for "Contraceptive Update — The Latest on What's Right or Wrong for You" (Magazine News)
• Glamour magazine for "My Abortion — Why It Was The Most Difficult Decision I May Ever Have To Make (Magazine Feature)
• Honorable Mention Certificates to
  • Group W Production for Hour Magazine show featuring Ann Landers speaking out on the need to keep abortion legal (Television Editorial)
  • WFAA-TV, for a five-part series on infertility (Television Public Affairs)
  • Seventeen magazine for "Sex and Your Body" (Magazine Feature)
  • WSB for continuous enlightened programming efforts (Radio Public Affairs)

1981

• David Greene/Finnegan Associates for The Choice
• Honorable Mention Certificates to
  • Dan Curtis Associates for "I Think I'm Having a Baby"
  • The MacNeil/Lehrer Report for "Medicaid Abortion"
  • Hour Magazine for "How We Can Encourage Teens to Be Sexually Responsible"
  • David Sawyer and Victoria Hamburg for "So Many Voices: A Look at Abortion in America"

1980

• Michael Hirsh and Station WTTW/Chicago Public Television for Guess Who's Pregnant: An Update

1978

• Tandem/Tat Production House: for three television episodes on adolescent pregnancies, in One Day at a Time, Good Times, and In the Beginning