The Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates (FAPPA) is the state public policy office representing Florida’s five Planned Parenthood affiliates. FAPPA works to advance public policy in areas of reproductive health care, family planning and medically-accurate sex education in order to make comprehensive reproductive health care available to all.
The last-minute amendment preventing the proposed "public option" from covering abortions, which was shoved down the throats of Congress in order to pass the bill, should be looked at as an opportunity for Florida and all of America. The dissolution of Title V funding by the Obama administration, which provided school districts with funds to disseminate information on abstinence only, will free up monies to create a proactive rather than a reactive rationale toward the abortion issue.
November 17, 2009, George Washington University School of Public Health
WASHINGTON - The Stupak/Pitts Amendment was added to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), which passed the House on November 7th. The amendment bans federal funding for abortions and bars payment of federal subsidies to health insurance products sold in exchanges that cover most medically indicated abortions.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday.
Disproportionate Impact on Racial Minorities Persists
Adolescent girls ages 15–19 years had the largest reported number of chlamydia and gonorrhea cases (409,531) when compared to any other age group, followed closely by women ages 20-24, according to an annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report finds that more than 1.5 million cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea were reported in 2008.
In the vote on health care reform offered by the House Democratic leadership, women were given the status of potted plants. It didn't seem to matter that women generally vote Democratic at substantially higher rates than men, their reproductive health care was sacrificed on the altar (and it was an altar) of getting the thing passed.
Sujatha “Suzie” Prabhakaran just liked Planned Parenthood from the start.
The 33-year-old medical doctor, who also holds a master’s degree in public health, was hired last summer as the new director for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. She oversees clinics in Sarasota, Bradenton, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, Winter Haven, Tampa and Lakeland.
WASHINGTON — The House on Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, historic health care overhaul legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so.
If passed by the Senate, the bill would bring about the most sweeping changes in the American health care system since Medicare was created 44 years ago.
The debate over health care reform has hit a predictable bump in the road: abortion. Opponents of abortion rights want to ban abortion coverage from any health insurance plan where customers receive federal subsidies — going against the trend in the private market and effectively preventing millions of American women from choosing to have access to a legal medical procedure. Congressional leaders need to steer clear. The best solution is to embrace an option that gives women access to abortion coverage but does not spend federal dollars to do it.
When the House narrowly passed the health care reform bill on Saturday night, it came with a steep price for women’s reproductive rights. Under pressure from anti-abortion Democrats and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, lawmakers added language that would prevent millions of Americans from buying insurance that covers abortions — even if they use their own money.
