TORONTO – The LGBTQ Youth Initiative at Planned Parenthood Toronto will launch Send the Right Message Sept. 26. This LGBTQ youth-led campaign provides resources for straight and cisgender youth who want to help improve the lives of LGBTQ people. As a comprehensive public campaign, activities range from TTC advertisements, to a video on pronoun use…
NEW YORK N.Y. — Planned Parenthood has announced a multi-phase pilot program to build and expand its comprehensive HIV prevention and education efforts. Gilead Sciences, Inc, a research-based biopharmaceutical company, awarded the $900,000 grant to support and expand efforts of HIV prevention and education, including the integration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, at Planned Parenthood affiliate…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Planned Parenthood Federation of America has condemned President Donald Trump’s signing of a measure designed to undermine women’s health and overturn a rule that reinforced protections for the more than 4 million people who rely on Title X, the nation’s family planning program, for their health care. The bill signed by President…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In response to last week’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to overturn an Obama-era rule prohibiting states from denying federal family planning funding to Planned Parenthood or other organizations because they also offer abortion care, Equality California is asking all members of the LGBT community and allies to sign…
LOS ANGELES — In response to Thursday’s announcement by House Speaker Paul Ryan that he intends to target Planned Parenthood funding in his attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Equality California (EQCA) Executive Director Rick Zbur issued the following statement: “Equality California is calling on all members of the LGBT community and our allies to…
Like most medical students, I took anatomy in my first year, spending hours dissecting a cadaver with five colleagues. Every five weeks, our full day of testing ended with a practical exam. It began by circulating through a room full of bodies guessing the name or function of parts identified with a pin and ended…
Local trans assistance fund deserves mention, too Dear Editor, This letter is in direct response to the column Trans Progressive Thursday, May 30 by Ms. Autumn Sandeen (Funding LGBT nonprofits: LGBTweekly.com). While noteworthy to point out an assistance fund to aid trans people has been started by Jacob Rostovsky in Los Angeles, I’m wondering why…
(CNN) — An outspoken and provocative conservative who emerged from Saturday’s Republican Party of Virginia Convention as the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and blasted African-Americans for their “slavish devotion” to the Democratic Party. E.W. Jackson, an African-American pastor and attorney from Chesapeake, made the comments…
(CNN) — President Barack Obama on Friday chided recent state efforts to enact tougher abortion laws and became the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood when he spoke at a gala for the group. “When you read about some of these laws, you want to check the calendar. You want to make sure you’re…
Planned Parenthood supports marriage equality Dear Editor, Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in defense of and opposition to marriage equality. Among the issues addressed were the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban approved by voters in 2008. Why is Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of reproductive and sexual…
