Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards released this statement following comments today by President Obama’s senior economic advisor, Gene Sperling, that the president will not support any cuts to the Medicaid program:

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards released the following statement hailing tonight’s announcement by the Obama Administration that they are dropping their appeal to a court ruling this April lifting the age and point of sale restrictions on emergency contraception:

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Proposed Federal Rule Could Help Millions of Women Avoid Unintended Pregnancy

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards called on Speaker John Boehner and House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Chairman Trent Franks (R-AZ) to cancel Thursday’s hearing on his bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide in light of today’s ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a similar law in Arizona is unconstitutional.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

(Indianapolis, Ind.) – Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) today filed suit against the Indiana State Department of Health in U.S. District Court, arguing that Senate Enrolled Act 371 (SEA 371), legislation that singles out one health center in Lafayette for unnecessary new restrictions, is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS), represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and joined by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed suit today in Federal District Court in Sioux Falls, SD, against a new law that severely restricts abortion access.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Files State Suit against Women’s Health Program Ban

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, represented by attorneys at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, today filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, challenging the constitutionality of a recently enacted Nebraska law misleadingly titled “The Women’s Health Protection Act.”

Jan. 30, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Federation of America sharply criticized Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for signing a mandatory ultrasound law that will deny Virginia women access to individualized reproductive health care and further hurt women seeking a safe and legal abortion in Virginia.

Jan. 30, 2014 • National