FPA holds its 7th Annual Legislative Conference, introducing the Margaret Sanger Awards to recognize legislators who have made significant contributions to family planning policy. The awards are named after Margaret Sanger, who established the first birth control clinic and founded Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

FPA is instrumental in persuading Governor Mario Cuomo to launch a $5 million Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Initiative designed to provide education, job training and enhanced life options for at-risk, pregnant and parenting teens.

FPA joins an alliance of 30 groups in a major effort to pass a New York Equal Rights Amendment, which ultimately fails in the Senate.

In March, FPA’s Long Range Planning Committee issues a new report, “New York’s Key System for Delivering Basic Preventive Health Care to the Poor, Medically Indigent, and Medically Disenfranchised” with wide distribution to policymakers.

FPA succeeds in getting the Legislature to increase family planning funds by $500,000 in the State Budget. FPA’s organizational members now reach 125.