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Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Votes Ramp up Efforts to Educate Mass. Voters about Gomez’s Dangerous Agenda for Women

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund today announced a multi-layered campaign to educate Massachusetts voters about what’s at stake for women’s health in advance of the June 25 special election. The Action Fund is the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and endorsed Ed Markey in March. In the final days leading into the election, the group, together with its independent expenditure committee, Planned Parenthood Votes, will make an estimated 145,000 calls and will send mail to 74,300 households.
June 18, 2013 • National

“The stupidity is simply staggering”

“The stupidity is simply staggering.” That’s a direct quote from Republican Representative Charlie Dent (R-PA) in reference to the decision of his party’s leadership to bring an unconstitutional bill that would ban abortion nationwide at 20-weeks up for a vote next week. “I’ll be very frank: I discouraged our leadership from bringing this to a vote on the floor,” he told CQ-Roll Call. “Clearly the economy is on everyone’s minds, we’re seeing very stagnant job numbers, confidence in the institution of government is eroding and now we’re going to have a debate on rape and abortion.”
June 14, 2013 • National

U.S. Supreme Court Announcement Is Another Court Victory for Women’s Health

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court decision that invalidated an effort by the State of Indiana to block women in Indiana’s Medicaid program from continuing to access preventive health care services at Planned Parenthood health centers.
May 28, 2013 • National

Planned Parenthood: Victory in Arkansas Is a Message to All States that Cutting Women Off from Planned Parenthood Is Too Extreme for Even the Most Hostile States to Women’s Health

Marking a victory for Planned Parenthood’s patients, and the supporters in Arkansas who organized in opposition to anti-women’s health bills, the state legislature ended its session today without passing one of the broadest measures ever considered that would have blocked public health funds from Planned Parenthood and other health care providers who provide or even refer patients for safe and legal abortions.
May 17, 2013 • National

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Congratulates Ed Markey for Primary Victory in Mass. Special Election

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens congratulated women’s health champion Ed Markey for winning the Massachusetts Senate special election Democratic primary this evening.
April 30, 2013 • National

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Announces Final Stretch in Massachusetts Volunteer Voter Education Program

With less than a week before the Massachusetts Special Election Primaries, Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced the final stretch of a month-long volunteer-driven voter education program to help elect Ed Markey to the U.S. Senate and Linda Dorcena Forry to the State Senate on April 30. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and endorsed Ed Markey on March 13, 2013.
April 24, 2013 • National

Planned Parenthood: Report on State Politicians' Attacks on Women’s Health Is a Call to Action

A new report signals that 2013 may be even worse than the record-breaking years of 2011 and 2012 for state legislation that limits access to women’s health care— with a wave of restrictions that will significantly impact millions of women.
April 15, 2013 • National

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Condemns Backdoor Abortion Ban Passed in Alabama

Planned Parenthood Action Fund today condemned legislation passed by the Alabama state legislature that could essentially ban abortion in the state.
April 3, 2013 • National

North Dakota’s Extreme Abortion Ban Must Be a Wake-Up Call Nationally, Planned Parenthood Action Fund Says

Planned Parenthood Action Fund today said that the extreme ban on abortion signed into law in North Dakota is a wake-up call for the country, in the midst of an unprecedented rash of bills that would severely restrict women’s access to abortion. Bills have been introduced in 42 states that would ban or severely limit access to abortion — and, going much further, would make it harder for women to get birth control, cut women off from cancer screenings, and prohibit sex education programs that help prevent teen pregnancy.
March 26, 2013 • National

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