| Biography of Ann Rose
Ann Rose is a creative and motivated professional
that specializes in women’s health education in Atlanta, Georgia.
Currently, Ms. Rose is focusing on healthcare marketing opportunities via the Internet. She is President of the
ClinicPages.com network and an online directory of Abortion Providers,
Abortion Clinics Online. Abortion Clinics OnLine has been online since 1995 and is the largest source for online abortion clinic information in the world. She also has an educational site, Ann Rose’s
Ultimate Birth Control Links
where she personally answers over 30 questions per week regarding birth control. A compilation of her Q&A is in the works. Her latest project with Susan Hill is the
Hot Flash Report, an online liberal blog.
She is also a partner in the National Women’s Health Organization, a group of 5 abortion and family planning clinics in the Eastern and Southern United States.
Ms. Rose has over twenty years experience in administration, marketing, service development, referral enhancement and public relations for contemporary outpatient women’s health care facilities and services; and she is an accomplished public speaker and health educator.
She has specialized nationwide in working with health care clients, especially abortion providers, hospitals, outpatient surgi-centers, and women’s health centers. As a member of the Speaker's Bureau of major
pharmaceutical companies since 1992, she has conducted educational workshops throughout the country for medical facility personnel on stress management, values clarification, contraceptive risk taking, why women delay, repeat abortion. and self-esteem. She has also performed stand up comedy in Atlanta and nationwide. She maintains a close relationship with the Atlanta and national media.
In 1977, Ann Rose helped open the nation's first hospital specializing in second trimester
abortion. She served in the capacities of Clinic Director, Counseling, Director, Admissions Supervisor, and Director of Community Relations between 1977 and 1989. Under Ms. Rose's ground floor initiatives, this nationally-acclaimed women’s specialty abortion hospital served over 100,000 women. Ms. Rose developed some of the first marketing programs for women’s health services including informational brochures, advertisements (print, radio, television), direct mail, newsletters, and community involvement. Nationally recognized as a specialist in women’s health care marketing, she has also developed surveys, forms, consents, patient flow systems, and patient referral tracking programs. Her front line presence in contemporary women’s
health issues has resulted not only in local press but also in national interviews with all the major
networks including CNN, Talk-Back Live, ABC’s 20/20, CBS Nightly News and CBS’s 48 Hours. She has also been politically active in shaping legislation both locally and nationally, as well as working with major family planning organizations.
Biography of Susan Hill
Professional:
1975 - Present: President of National Women’s Health Organization, a network of 8 free standing clinics and
surgi-centers through the US specializing in gynecological and abortion services. Clinics are located in Columbus GA, Raleigh NC, Ft. Wayne IN, Wilmington DE, Milwaukee WI, Fargo ND, and Jackson MS. Ms. Hill has been on the forefront of the national movement to provide abortion services to underserved areas of the country, and to keep abortion services available throughout the country.
1973-1975: Director of EPOC Clinic in Orlando FL, the first abortion clinic outside of Miami which opened right after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion.
1970-1973: Social worker in North Carolina and Florida
Education:
Meredith College, Raleigh NC. BA in Sociology / Social Work. 1970
A small Southern Baptist Women’s College
Legal Actions:
Ms. Hill and the National Women’s Health Organization have successfully sued the anti-abortion opposition over 34 times in Federal and State actions, and have never lost. Suits have been for false advertising, zoning ordinances, injunctions, etc. Her aggressive pursuit of legal remedies through the courts have kept the opposition at bay and has set important national precedents. NWHO clinics were the clinic plaintiffs in the landmark RICO case, Now v. Scheidler, against anti-abortion elements. This case was successfully litigated in 1998 and applied racketeering laws to anti-abortion extremists.
National Boards:
National Abortion Federation. Founding Member and Board Member. 1976-1981.
National Abortion Rights Action League. National Board Member. 1979-1984.
National Coalition of Abortion Providers. Founding Member. 1990-Present.
Honors and Awards:
North Carolina Equity 2000 Carpathian Award Nominee - 2000
North Carolina Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award - 1999
Raleigh NOW Award - 1999
National Abortion Rights Action League Choice Champion - 1995
North Carolina NOW Equality for Women Award - 1994
Fund for Feminist Majority Feminist of the Year Award - 1994
NOW Unsung Hero Award - 1989
Television Appearances:
Donahue, Nightline, Sonya Live, C-Span, NBC Nightly News, BBC TV & Radio, 20/20, Belgian TV, ABC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, McNeil-Lehrer Report, PBS, CNN, CBS Morning News, CBS Nightly News, Freedom Forum (PBS), MSNBC, CNBC, Rivera Live, NPR, Dr. Laura.
Print Media:
Business Week, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, Spin, Spy, Atlanta Constitution, Philadelphia Enquirer, Miami Herald, New Yorker, Glamour Magazine, Washington Post, Buffalo News, Chicago Sun
Times, Chicago Tribune, USA, Boston Herald
Testimony:
Before Congress regarding the FACE Bill. 1993
Before Congress regarding enforcement of the FACE Bill. 1994
Before the FDA regarding RU486. 1996
Before Congress regarding RICO. 1998.
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