VOTE NO on HB 461. Encourage members of the House Health and Human Services Committee to trust women and focus on creating greater access to comprehensive reproductive health care, rather than building roadblocks that put women’s health at risk. Representative Eliason is sponsoring HB 461, or Abortion Waiting Period that would extend the current 24-hour [...]
We need you to tell the House Education Committee to vote “no” on HB 363! They vote today! Rep. Wright is sponsoring HB 363 Health Education Amendments and proposes to change our state Health and Sex Education curriculum to prohibit anything but “abstinence only” lesson plans. This policy would impact all public school districts, with [...]
Dear Friends, Today, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced that it will continue to make grant funds for breast health and education available to Planned Parenthood, which could include Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. We are gratified that Planned Parenthood’s partnership with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation will [...]
We see presidential candidates vowing to defund Planned Parenthood. We see anti-choice lawmakers in state after state putting harsh new restrictions on women’s right to make their own medical decisions. We’ve had enough. The dangerous ideologues who campaign on anti-choice, anti-women’s health platforms have to know that they can no longer get away with it [...]
Heather Stringfellow, longtime director of the Salt Lake Rape Recovery Center, has moved on to Planned Parenthood as vice president of public policy. This beautifully written piece in the Salt Lake Tribune is the perfect introduction. Enjoy! Peg McEntee, Salt Lake Trib: Planned Parenthood has the right leader at the right time “A decade ago, [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ruled on a national level, birth control is basic preventive care! Join us in thanking the HHS for this decision. They are currently accepting public comment including certain religious groups who want to be an exception to providing birth control insurance benefits for their employees. Make your [...]
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