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PLANNED PARENTHOOD STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO NEW HHS REGULATION IMPACTING WOMEN’S HEALTH

akimmell — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:56:42 -0500

Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards:

“Planned Parenthood continues to be concerned that the Bush administration’s proposed regulation poses a serious threat to women’s health care by limiting the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate health information and services. At a time when more and more families are uninsured and under economic assault, we find our health care system is in crisis and our president taking steps to deny access to basic care. Women’s ability to manage their own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.

Obituary: Doris Carson was a city pioneer in women's reproductive health

akimmell — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:01:41 -0500

The physician was an avid promoter of family planning.

August 9, 2008
By Jessie-Lynne Kerr, The Times-Union

"My greatest concern is to see that every child is a wanted child," she said in a 1992 interview with the Times-Union. She fervently promoted family planning and said she was uncomfortable with abortion.

There will be a memorial service at 2 p.m. Friday at Riverside Presbyterian Church, 849 Park St., where she had been an elder and Sunday school teacher.

Our view: Rights at risk

akimmell — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:02:57 -0500

Orlando Sentinel
August 3, 2008

Shelve arrogant White House push to redefine birth control as abortion

Countless Space Coast women every day make private decisions about bearing children, including choosing to use contraception.

The vast majority of American women use a contraceptive method at some point in their lives.

And 62 percent of the 62 million women nationwide of childbearing age are currently using one, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Bush Administration Twists Facts to Trick States into Accepting Funds for Ineffective Abstinence-Only Programs

akimmell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:43:40 -0500

July 28, 2008

Title V Grant Extension Is a Gimmick; Hurts Florida Teens

Sarasota, FL — Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates (FAPPA) today criticized the Bush administration for misleading states about the certainty of Title V abstinence-only program funding in a new grant extension announced recently. The move is a gimmick aimed directly at countering states’ rejection of failed abstinence-only programs.

Abortion Proposal Sets Condition on Aid

akimmell — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:56:17 -0500

New York Times
By ROBERT PEAR
July 15, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control.

Under the draft of a proposed rule, hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign “written certifications” as a prerequisite to getting money under any program run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

95 groups unite to push health care agenda

akimmell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:08:49 -0500

By Lisa Greene, St. Petersburg Times
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

TAMPA — Making health care more affordable is so important to 95 local and national advocacy groups that they have formed a coalition to push health care reform.

The coalition, Health Care for America Now, launched a national media campaign Tuesday with news conferences in Tampa and 52 other cities, including six more in Florida.

"We will either have a guarantee of quality, affordable health care," said Bill Newton, executive director of the Florida Consumer Action Network, one of the groups participating. "Or we will continue to be at the mercy of the private insurance industry … putting company profits before our health."

Participating groups include the National Education Association, the Campaign for America's Future, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Service Employees International Union and MoveOn.

States turn down US abstinence education grants

akimmell — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:52:07 -0500

Associated Press

June 24, 2008

By KEVIN FREKING

WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.

Editorial: States getting realistic about abstinence; time for feds to do the same

akimmell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:06:04 -0500

Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

June 27, 2008

ISSUE: More states rejecting abstinence grants.

It is no great surprise that states are having doubts about the effectiveness of federal abstinence education programs.

Seminar brings regional AIDS awareness home to Collier

akimmell — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:23:56 -0500

Naples Daily News

June 24, 2008

When it comes to HIV/AIDS numbers, the South is definitely facing an uphill battle, one AIDS official said.

“I think the statistics are still pretty amazing,” said Kathie Hiers, CEO of AIDS Alabama, a nonprofit group in Alabama that provides housing and supportive services to low-income persons with HIV/AIDS. “Look at the South ... by far the fastest-growing area in the country.”

Repairing the Damage, Before Roe

Judderwocki — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:59:37 -0500

The New York Times
June 3, 2008
With the Supreme Court becoming more conservative, many people who support women’s right to choose an abortion fear that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave them that right, is in danger of being swept aside.

When such fears arise, we often hear about the pre-Roe “bad old days.” Yet there are few physicians today who can relate to them from personal experience. I can.