Press Releases

Demonstrating the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, a new study published by the nonpartisan Guttmacher Institute revealed that the proportion of privately insured U.S. women who did not pay out-of-pocket costs for oral contraceptive pills rose dramatically from 15 percent to 67 percent between the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2014.

Sept. 18, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Votes is launching its first TV ad in Iowa this week, highlighting U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst’s dangerous and out-of-touch record on women’s health.

Sept. 17, 2014 • National

As part of the Women are Watching advocacy and political campaign to elect pro-women’s health candidates, Planned Parenthood Votes today announced its first TV ad buy of the cycle to hold anti-women’s health Senate candidates Cory Gardner in Colorado and Thom Tillis in North Carolina accountable for their shared records of working to make birth control less affordable and accessible for women.

Sept. 12, 2014 • National

A new poll of voters in 18 battleground states found that the issues of women’s health and economic security for women and families are the top motivators for key groups of voters.

Sept. 9, 2014 • National

Last week, the Washington Post published a piece on Amendment 67, an extreme and dangerous measure on the Colorado ballot that would ban all abortion and could criminalize women and their doctors.

Sept. 8, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Votes president Cecile Richards released the following statement on Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ courageous revelation of her deeply personal and complex decision to have an abortion later in pregnancy due to a fetal anomaly in her memoir Forgetting to Be Afraid.

Sept. 6, 2014 • National

Planned Parenthood Votes president Cecile Richards released the following statement on Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ courageous revelation of her deeply personal and complex decision to have an abortion later in pregnancy due to a fetal anomaly in her memoir Forgetting to Be Afraid.

Sept. 5, 2014 • National

On Wednesday, September 3, women’s health champion Senator Kay Hagan will face off against North Carolina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis at the first of three planned debates in their campaign for U.S. Senate.

Sept. 3, 2014 • National

As part of their larger effort to muddy the waters around their unpopular positions on women’s health and birth control, some politicians, including Cory Gardner in Colorado, are proposing to move select forms of birth control over-the-counter.

Sept. 2, 2014 • National