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Join Planned Parenthood Los Angeles in the Campaign for a Healthy South LA!

Reader diary posted by PPLABlog

June 18, 2009 - 1:56pm

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a key player in our campaign and help thousands of women, men and teens get the
quality, affordable reproductive health services they need and deserve.


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Choice Words from Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

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May 20, 2009 - 4:51pm

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State of World Population 2009 by the U.N. Population Fund

Reader diary posted by Jane Roberts, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA

November 18, 2009 - 7:50pm

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Thoraya Obaid, executive director of the UN Population Fund about family planning: “There is no investment in development that costs so little and brings benefits that are so far-reaching and enormous”.

 


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Women's Health Equals Global Health: A Radical Proposal

Reader diary posted by Jane Roberts, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA

November 7, 2009 - 12:35am

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We need a peaceful, purposeful, stubborn and obstinate revolution.   


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Abortion Remains A Foil for Opponents of Reform

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 21, 2009 - 6:00am

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All the sexual health-specific sturm und drang around the process of health reform over the past few months has resulted in a set of bills all of which that take roughly the same “abortion neutral” approach.

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VIDEO: Klobuchar Joins Senate Push for Women’s Health

By Andy Birkey, New Journalist Fellow

October 20, 2009 - 9:35am

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar is one of several female Democratic senators demanding that health insurance disparities that impact women be eliminated as part of the health reform packages being debated in Congress.

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Family Planning is a Green Technology

By Frances Kissling

September 29, 2009 - 6:00am

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Two hundred million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy but lack access to contraception. Recent research suggests that filling this gap is a humane and cost-effective human rights and environmental strategy.

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Regional Groups Find Allies in New Places

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2009 - 8:02am

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While ultra-conservatives attempt to derail health reform with intellectually dishonest charges of taxpayer-funded abortion, state and local pro-choice advocates seek more centrist issues to attract allies to the greater cause.

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Climate Change, Population Growth and Reproductive Health: It's About More Than Reducing Emissions

By Karen Hardee and Kathleen Mogelgaard, Population Action International

September 23, 2009 - 6:00am

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As heads of state gather in NY and Pittsburgh this week to discuss our climate future, they should broaden their view beyond the technological fixes that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and remember the human face of climate change—a face that is frequently female, and in need of fundamental support that will enable her to take care of herself, her family, and our world.

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ICPD: Refocusing on Comprehensive Reproductive Health

By Kimberly Whipkey, CHANGE

September 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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All women – whether living with HIV, married, young, transgender, poor, queer – experience their reproductive health in overlapping ways throughout their lives, and reproductive health programs and services should reflect this reality.

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