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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.
Read more(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 ...
Read more(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 ...
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Tea Party Republicans’ assault women’s preventive care and birth control: Redux
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
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
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.
