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News: Local and Global
On January 8, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a major speech today to mark the 15th year of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Secretary Clinton announced the U.S. Government's renewed support for and dedication to reaching the ICPD goals and other related UN agreements, including the Millennium Development Goals, by 2015. Watch her speech here.
***Action Alert ***
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) recently introduced H. Res. 947, which renews U.S. commitment to the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) on it 15th anniversary.
A landmark meeting held in Cairo in 1994, the ICPD recognized that women’s empowerment, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights are critical to achieving sustainable development and eradicating global poverty.
We need your help TODAY to get more co-sponsors of this resolution. Currently the resolution has 16 co-sponsors including Grijalva (D-AZ), Jackson Lee (D-TX), Slaughter (D-NY), Rush (D-IL) and “Hank” Johnson (D-GA); Davis, Susan (D-CA), DeGette, (D-CO), Edwards, (D/MD), Maloney, (D-NY), and Schakowsky (D-IL).
Call your representative and urge him/her to co-sponsor Rep. Lee’s resolution on the International Conference on Population and Development. You can reach your Representative through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3141.
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Healthcare Reform: OP-ED from PIWH
Who Will Fight for Women
By Belle Taylor-McGhee, PIWH President and CEO
The so-called compromise struck by the Senate on women’s access to abortion in healthcare reform strikes a serious blow to a woman’s personal privacy. Requiring women to write two separate checks – one for her general health coverage and one for coverage for abortion – is fundamentally in conflict with a woman’s right to choose, which Roe v. Wade concluded is a personal privacy matter – protecting a woman’s anonymity in the private medical decision to choose abortion.
Let’s not kid ourselves that this most recent deal isn’t wrought with serious problems. Just how will the abortion check be handled in the new healthcare system? Who will have access to that information? How will women with supplemental abortion coverage explain that to an abusive partner? And how will the price of abortion coverage under the new system be set?
It’s clear that the fundamental right to choose is no longer a slippery slope. It’s actually fallen off the cliff.
PIWH is committed to raising these critical questions and working with our allies to ensure that we get answers. If Congress isn’t going to fight for women, then we must. As the final votes are passed on healthcare reform, we need your support to stop this erosion on women’s health before it hits the ground.
PIWH in the NEWS
The Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (PIWH) joined several allied organizations in support of comprehensive healthcare reform at a rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday, December 2nd.
The rally was part of an organized national “Day of Action” to protest restrictions on abortion access in national healthcare reform. Speaking before the crowd, PIWH President and CEO Belle Taylor-McGhee called on the U.S. Senate to reject any measures that would deny abortion coverage in the new healthcare exchange, and to reject any measure that would limit access to persons based on their legal status.
The following are media reports from the rally:
Abortion Rights Advocates Rally Against Amendment To Health Care Reform Bill
- KTVU Channel 2 (San Francisco)
- Supe Dufty Speaks In Favor Of Abortion Rights At City Hall Rally
- KRON Channel 4 (San Francisco)
“How Can a Pharmacist Help Me?”
Pharmacy Access Partnership Eases the Contraceptive Communication Gap for Teens
PIWH is proud to announce that Pharmacy Access Partnership, a center of PIWH, has been featured in the Fall issue of Grantee Magazine, a quarterly publication of the California Wellness Foundation, for the Youth Friendly Pharmacy Initiative.
Press Statements
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