Tag: Planned Parenthood

President Bush has threatened to veto the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, passed by the House last week, which gives federal and congressional employees four weeks of paid parental leave after birth, adoption, or placement of a foster child (via The Washington Post).

The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution declaring rape and sexual violence as a war tactic (via The Daily Nation).

The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California has released a statement denying allegations that PPAC overcharged the government for oral contraceptives (via the LA Times).

The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California has released a statement denying allegations that PPAC overcharged the government for oral contraceptives (via the LA Times).

The Virginia Senate has voted to cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood of Virginia because it offers abortions, marking the first time in over a decade that the Senate has decided against giving state aid to the organization because of its abortion-related activities (via the Washington Post).  

The Missouri Senate has preliminarily approved a bill that would require parents of girls entering the sixth grade to be sent information on how HPV is transmitted, the virus' symptoms and its link to cervical cancer, as well as require parents to tell the state whether their daughters have received the immunization (via Belleville News Democrat).  

A Tennessee House subcommittee has voted not to increase limits on abortion by rejecting a resolution that would have amended the state's constitution to say that "nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion" (via The Daily News Journal).

And meanwhile in New York, abstinence only education does more harm than good.

A DailyKos diarist, starts a 3-part series entitled:  "Coming Out of the Abortion Closet".  She advocates telling personal abortion stories and being proud of the decision to have an abortion.

If you want to see what one organization is doing for pregnant women, check out the National Advocates for Pregnant Women website.

Does the future of birth control lie with men? From RhRealityCheck.org.

The New Jersey Supreme court smacks down a requirement that doctors give abortion patients values-laden information.

Marcy Bloom discusses Integrating Men Into Abortion Care at RHRealityCheck.

According to Feministing.com, the protests are heating up against the new Planned Parenthood in Aurora OH.

The Global Gag Rule which was reinstated by GWBush on his first day in office has been repealed by the US Senate.

Check out this insane story about anti-abortionists trying to stop Planned Parenthood from opening a clinic outside of Chicago in Aurora IL.  

A prominent Catholic columnist thinks that 15 years to life is appropriate punishment for women having an abortion.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee comes out against contraception.  We know it's not just abortion they're trying to ban.

A group of "Clowns KKKick KKK ass!" in Knoxville during a Nazi/KKK hate rally.  Clever.

In case you missed it. Here is the video of the Jackson Women's Health Organization which was featured on NBC Nightly News last Friday.  It's the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.