Planned Parenthood Applauds President’s Focus on Helping Women and Families Get Ahead; Underscores that Women’s Access to Health Care Must Be Part of Economic Agenda
Planned Parenthood Federation of America welcomed President Obama’s focus on helping women and families get ahead in the State of the Union address this evening, releasing a statement underscoring that women’s health must be part of any economic agenda moving forward, and the importance of protecting and expanding access to family planning along with every other advance women have made over the last century.
Jan. 21, 2015
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Planned Parenthood Applauds President’s Focus on Helping Women and Families Get Ahead
Jan. 20, 2015
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Planned Parenthood Calls on Congress to Move Forward on Women’s Health, Not Backward
Planned Parenthood sent a letter to every Member of Congress today emphasizing that women’s health and economic security are deeply connected and laying out ways that the 114th Congress can move forward on improving health outcomes for women.
Jan. 20, 2015
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Planned Parenthood Launches Campaign Urging Obama Administration to Correct Harmful Global Policy
Building on previous calls for action on the issue, Planned Parenthood today launched a campaign to mobilize its eight million supporters to urge President Obama to correctly interpret implement the Helms Amendment, in parallel with renewed calls this week from leading reproductive health groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights, Ipas and others.
Jan. 15, 2015
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60 Percent of Americans Support Access to Abortion at 20 Weeks in Cases of Severe Fetal Abnormalities
The first poll that reflects the reality of abortion later in pregnancy was released today, showing that when voters understand the real-world circumstances surrounding abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, they overwhelmingly oppose laws that would ban the procedure at that stage.
Jan. 7, 2015
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Planned Parenthood Calls on Court to Block Severe Abortion Restrictions
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments in the Center for Reproductive Rights’ case against a severe Texas law, which had forced more than a dozen health centers to stop providing safe, legal abortion overnight when it was allowed to briefly go into effect on October 2, 2014.
Jan. 7, 2015
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New Report: Nearly 60 Percent of ACA Enrollees Are Women
According to the latest enrollment numbers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 56 percent of those who enrolled in new, affordable health care coverage between November 15 and December 15 under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were women.
Dec. 30, 2014
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Supreme Court Denies Review of Arizona Abortion Restrictions, Politically Motivated Law Remains Blocked by Court Order
The United States Supreme Court today declined to review an Arizona law that would severely limit women’s access to medication abortion, an extremely safe method of ending a pregnancy in its earliest stages.
Dec. 15, 2014
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New Study Reaffirms Abortion Is Safe, PPFA Urges Policy Makers to Base Legislation on Science
In response to a new study reaffirming that abortion as practiced in America today is safe, Planned Parenthood released the following statement urging elected officials to consider the science when drafting legislation that affects women’s health, most notably medically unnecessary targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP), which have been introduced and passed by anti-women’s health legislators and special interest groups with the stated intent to “increase safety.”
Dec. 8, 2014
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