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Planned Parenthood Condemns House Vote, Misplaced Agenda Against Women

Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC Action Fund today condemned a resolution passed by extreme politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives that unfairly allows employers in the District of Columbia to discriminate against their employees on the basis of their personal reproductive health decisions.
May 1, 2015 • National

House Republicans Double Down on Extreme Attacks on Women’s Reproductive Rights

It seems like common sense that a woman shouldn’t be fired because she’s had an abortion, uses birth control, or in vitro fertilization to start a family, but some extreme members of Congress don’t see it that way.
April 30, 2015 • National

Race to the bottom on women’s health at Iowa Faith & Freedom Summit

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the likely GOP nominees for president are competing in a race to the bottom on women’s health and will say anything to appeal to an extreme faction of the Republican Party
April 28, 2015 • National

ICYMI: Polls Have Been Misleading You About What Americans Actually Believe About Abortion

These statements are just not accurate. In fact, the public overwhelmingly supports abortion rights and has for decades. However, a small minority on the far right is deeply opposed to abortion, and they exercise outsized influence in conservative politics. That's very different than the public being split or divided on the issue.
April 27, 2015 • National

Hillary Clinton draws clear contrast w/ 2016 GOP candidates on women’s health, economic security

During her keynote at the Women in the World conference Thursday, Hillary Clinton brought welcome attention to an issue that has too long been over simplified by political pundits and pollsters alike: that reproductive health is not separate from economic concerns — they are deeply linked in women’s lives.
April 24, 2015 • National

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Congratulates Loretta Lynch on Her Confirmation as Attorney General

Planned Parenthood Action Fund released the following statement today on the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general, whose nomination was held up twice as long as the last seven attorney general nominees combined.
April 23, 2015 • National

Congressional Committee Votes to Allow Employer Discrimination Based on Reproductive Health Care Decisions

Today, an extreme group of anti-women’s health members of Congress moved forward to block a commonsense measure that would protect women who live in the District of Columbia from employment discrimination based on their reproductive health care decisions.
April 22, 2015 • National

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Statement on Proposed Agreement on Senate Human Trafficking Measure

Planned Parenthood Action Fund released the following statement today on the proposed bipartisan agreement on the human trafficking bill in the U.S. Senate.
April 21, 2015 • National

Marco Rubio and the race to the bottom on women’s health

Despite the vast majority of voters, including Republicans, Independents, and Democrats who want elected officials to move forward on women’s health, Senator Marco Rubio and the other GOP presidential contenders thus far, including Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, have made careers of working to turn back the clock on women’s health and rights.
April 20, 2015 • National

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