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Family Planning Advocates’ Day of Action Monday, January 9, 2012

Join Family Planning Advocates and hundreds of pro-choice supporters at the Capitol on January 9, 2012 for the kick off of the new legislative session!

Our legislative priorities for 2012 are:

Securing Family Planning Funding
Advocating for the Reproductive Health Act
Influencing Health Care Reform Implementation
Advocating for Comprehensive K-12 Sex Education

Make it a priority to join us in Albany on January 9, 2012. Register now!

News

Tea Party Republicans’ assault women’s preventive care and birth control: Redux
November 2nd, 2011

In the latest Congressional attack on women’s health care, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Chair Rep. Joe Pitts held a hearing today on taking away new preventive health benefits from millions of women nationwide, including health plan coverage of birth control without copays. This benefit in new health insurance plans is one of the greatest advancements for women’s health care in decades.

Distractions amid the gridlock
October 23rd, 2011

Times Union Editorial Oct. 23, 2011

Our opinion: Just what do guns and abortion have to do with this nation’s problems right now? Everything, apparently, to House Republicans.

Americans are crying out for action from Washington on the economy, on unrelenting high unemployment, on the deterioration of the nation’s middle class. So what does the House of Representatives put on its front burner?

Guns and abortion.

Playing Politics With Women’s Lives
October 19th, 2011

New York Times Editorial Oct. 19, 2011

House Republicans approved an egregious measure last week that would shrink access to abortion to the point of endangering women’s lives.

Press Releases

Today, in response to a decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to end support for breast health and education provided through Planned Parenthood, Family Planning Advocates of New York State railed against anti-choice extremists for their shortsighted and mean-spirited pressure campaigns that ultimately harm women.

(ALBANY NY Jan. 24, 2012) Family Planning Advocates celebrates the Assembly’s passage of the Reproductive Rights and Justice Week Resolution, commemorating women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care on the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. “After witnessing an unprecedented number of attacks on women’s health care in 2011, we thank New ...

(ALBANY NY Jan. 20, 2012) This Sunday, January 22, the nation recognizes the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. For New York, however, our commemoration is much more personal. In 1970, three years prior to the Roe decision, the Empire State revolutionized women's health care when our wise lawmakers passed the ...