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Written by Deirdra Harris Glover
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
For nearly 77 years, Planned Parenthood of Alabama has helped people make lifelong responsible choices. From July 14 – 22, an extremist anti-abortion group, Operation Save America, will be in Birmingham in an attempt to disrupt our community with shocking imagery and misleading rhetoric. Planned Parenthood of Alabama knows that the public wants real solutions to the problem of unintended pregnancy, and for 77 years, Planned Parenthood of Alabama has been here providing the education, information and services people need to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion.
The actions of this extremist anti-choice group do not distract us from our primary concern, which is always the health and safety of our clients. Planned Parenthood is committed to helping women prevent unintended pregnancies by providing medically-accurate sex education and low-cost contraceptives to women in Alabama.
Planned Parenthood follows a strict non-engagement policy with protestors. It is our hope to keep the level of disruption surrounding our health center to a minimum, and as such, we will not be engaging in counter-protests at our health care facility.
We are encouraging our supporters and activists to focus on work that will be important beyond just the next few weeks, like our prevention legislation, due to be introduced in the 2008 Alabama legislative session. Supporters can help with these efforts by visiting our website www.ppalabama.org and signing our Alabama Prevention Petition, joining our Planned Parenthood Action Network, or making a donation to Planned Parenthood of Alabama.
We thank the many supporters who have expressed their outrage at the efforts of the anti-abortion extremists. We remind our supporters that OSA’s annual event will be over soon and we can focus our efforts on the things that are truly important like reducing unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion in Alabama. We also thank the supporters that have visited our website to make donations or sign up for our Pledge-A-Picket program to help reduce harassment at our health centers.
For nearly 77 years, Planned Parenthood has worked to make sure people have the information and means to decide freely and responsibly whether and when to have children – we still have plenty of work to do. We hope that you will join us in working to protect reproductive health.
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Written by Felicia Brown Williams, Planned Parenthood
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
Study Is Further Proof That Abstinence-Only Doesn't Work Washington, DC — In response to the Friday evening release of Mathematica’s evaluation of abstinence-only programs, Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Inc. (PPA) called on Congress to stop funding programs that don't work and instead support medically accurate, comprehensive sex education with the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act. The Mathematica study found that when compared to a control group, students who attended abstinence-only programs were no more likely to delay sexual activity or have fewer partners.
Felicia Brown Williams, PPA Vice President of Public Affairs and director of their Mississippi public affairs program, issued the following statement: "The results of this study come as no surprise. It is time for local, state and national leaders to realize that wasting money on abstinence-only programs does not prevent unintended pregnancy or reduce the rates of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. Mississippi’s leaders need to recognize that we owe our children and teens more—our youth deserve the information necessary to protect themselves and their futures. Mississippi’s youth need comprehensive sex education, including abstinence education and medically accurate sex information, to make informed decisions about their health. One need only review the teen pregnancy statistics and rates of sexually transmitted infections to see that it is obvious that abstinence-only education is failing our state."
The bipartisan REAL Act would create a grant program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services that would fund comprehensive sex education programs in schools nationwide. Currently, no federal program is dedicated to supporting comprehensive sex education, despite the proven effectiveness of such programs. It is estimated that only 10 percent of all American school districts have a sexuality education policy that is comprehensive and includes information about contraception and safer sex in addition to abstinence.
For more information on the REAL Act or on Planned Parenthood resources for teens and parents, please visit www.plannedparenthood.org. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 16 April 2007 )
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Written by Deirdra Harris Glover
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
Supporting the Criminalization of Abortion in Mississippi
is a Threat to Women’s Health HATTIESBURG, MS—Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Inc., today denounces Governor Haley Barbour’s signing of Mississippi Senate Bill 2391, a bill consisting of a measure that will criminalize abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, and two measures further restricting abortion services in Mississippi.
Felicia Brown Williams, VP of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Alabama and Director of their Mississippi public affairs program, issued the following statement about this legislation:
SB 2391 is a measure that criminalizes abortion, and this legislation is fueled by politics, not concern for the health and safety of women. By signing this bill into law, Governor Barbour has proven that he cares more about politics than women’s lives and health.Governor Barbour should be focusing his energies on rebuilding after Katrina, good education, affordable medical care and housing, and stop interfering in the personal moral health care decisions of women and families. Birth control and medically accurate sex education are proven tools to prevent unintended pregnancy – abortion bans are not. This legislation does nothing to reduce unintended pregnancies in Mississippi. If Governor Barbour truly cares about reducing the number of unintended pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion, he and the Mississippi legislature will work with Planned Parenthood to increase access to birth control and medically accurate sex education. |
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