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Marching in the Negro Silent Protest Parade | July 28, 1917
Holding up a banner at the Women’s Strike for Equality | August 26, 1970
Supporting March for Women’s Lives | April 5, 1992
Gathering in D.C. for the March for Women’s Lives | April 25, 2004
Fighting back at the Women’s March | January 21, 2017
This Thursday, we're throwing it back to last month when you made over 13,000 calls in 48 hours to your Senators in support of Planned Parenthood (yay!)
Reblog with your favorite #TBT moment in our fight to protect health care this summer.
#TBT to when...this happened.
Who's going to hide on their roof this time? #ProtectOurCare
Another Thursday, another sham hearing: We're having déjà vu to exactly this time last month. RIGHT NOW, anti-abortion politicians are running a hearing on Planned Parenthood — and didn't invite Planned Parenthood to speak. Instead, they invited only longtime anti-abortion activists to speak. #TBT
If the takeaways from the first Judiciary Committee hearing are any indication, this hearing will see extreme politicians make unfounded political attacks with no attempt to find the truth, and no requests for full, unedited source footage for the discredited smear videos that they are basing their false claims on.
Let’s call this what it is: An all-out attack on safe and legal abortion in this country.
Think Congress should stop wasting time attacking reproductive health? SIGN ON→ppact.io/standactsign.
In its ruling, the court recognized for the first time that the constitutional right to privacy “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy” (Roe v. Wade, 1973).
Congress tried to block Planned Parenthood non-profit health centers from serving patients who rely on federally funded health programs in 2011 too, making the same claims that community health centers could “absorb” the millions of patients across the country who’d be left without care. What did experts say then, and other times legislators have tried (or succeeded) to block Planned Parenthood health centers from providing care?
Alaska Dispatch News: “Without Planned Parenthood [in some parts of Alaska], options for low-income women are limited…. As to other clinics absorbing Planned Parenthood's patients, that would be a challenge, said Joan Fisher, executive director of Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center. The community health center — the only one in Anchorage — couldn't take on hundreds of new patients, she said. ‘Will they be able to get in? No, probably not. Then what will happen? They won't be on birth control. They won't get their paps. They might get pregnant. Then what are you going to do?’”
A local health care provider said to the Hartford Courant, "Defunding Planned Parenthood would be the moral equivalent of turning off the electricity and a whole segment of health care would go dark.... There just is no other capacity in Connecticut for what Planned Parenthood provides."
Huffington Post: “Those familiar with the mechanics of the WHP, however, question the feasibility of other health centers picking up the 42,000 women who would no longer be treated by Planned Parenthood. 'The coverage will continue, but that may not mean much if you look at the overall picture,' said Jose E. Camacho, Executive Director of the Texas Association of Community Health Centers. 'Health centers’ funding is being leveled, so we can’t say in good conscience that [Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)] have the capacity to take these women in.' FQHCs are serving one million people, 230,000 of childbearing age. The future of health care for close to a quarter million clients is also hazy, Camacho says, considering the House’s recent cuts to Title XX, V, and X programs. To add 40,000-plus former Planned Parenthood patients would be a 20 percent increase and 'just can’t be done over a night or two without funding.'”
Austin Chronicle: “Put simply, says Randall Ellis, senior director of government relations for the well-respected Houston FQHC Legacy Community Health Services, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low-income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care services. 'We work in conjunction with Planned Parenthood for family-planning and HIV services. We do referrals back and forth, so that people can receive services in the setting that they're most comfortable in,' he said. 'These family-planning providers, providers that specialize in family-planning services, provide these services in a much more cost-effective manner than do the other [providers] without the know-how – much more [cost-effectively] than Legacy or the other FQHCs ... that don't have the background' or expertise in providing reproductive health care.”
Women’s History Month #TBT: It’s been almost 100 years since many women won the right to vote, but the fight continued, and even today, voting rights are still under attack.
Your rights shouldn’t depend on who you are or where you live — whether it’s the right to vote or the right to access the health care you need — and it's time for us to move forward together.
Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a decision that has changed (and saved) women's lives — and this afternoon, the House voted to turn the clock back 42 years.
Here's a special #TBT to let them know: We will never let them take us back.
#TBT: The March for Women's Lives—10 years ago tomorrow.
The fight continues.
Throwback Thursday: One of our favorite photos of the incomparable Governor Ann Richards (aka PPFA President Cecile Richards' mom!).
As Senator Lindsey Graham prepares to introduce a 20-week abortion ban in the Senate today, an all-too-appropriate throwback.
