Stand Up For Women's Health

Sorry for the lack of posts these past few weeks — too many holidays. But we’re back, with a roundup of the latest reproductive health care news:

Planned Parenthood:

• On September 22, Lizz Winstead is doing a benefit show for PPNYC along with Sandra Bernhard, Lisa Lampanelli and more. Tickets are available here: http://www.ppaction.org/site/Calendar?id=101269&view=Detail
• Chiaroscuro Foundation broke down New York City’s rates of abortion by zip code and released the data. the NY Observer covers it with a quote from us: http://www.observer.com/2011/09/two-thirds-of-all-clinton-babies-are-aborted-the-neihborhood-not-the-president/

New York:

• Archbishop Dolan was also on Inside City Hall along with the Chiaroscuro Foundation, criticizing sex ed: http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/145821/archbishop-dolan-concerned-about-city-s-mandatory-sex-ed
  RH Reality Check points out the irony of a group opposed to sex ed lamenting the rate of abortion: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/09/antichoice-york-group-pushes-abstinenceonly-decries-abortion-rates-same-month
• The special election to replace Anthony Weiner is happening tomorrow: http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/79126/naral-for-weprin/
• We have endorsed Democrat David Weprin: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/elections-politics/press-releases/planned-parenthood-action-fund-endorses-david-weprin-new-yorks-ninth-congressional-district-1101.htm
• Though Free Republic is saying that David Weprin could lose the race: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2776671/posts
  The NY Post endorsed Bob Turner (not a surprise: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/elect_bob_turner_EKjexG4S51YGlPspgZJ9qI
• And the NY Times is also saying that Weprin might lose (so vote!): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/nyregion/fearing-loss-of-a-house-seat-democrats-make-a-late-push.html?ref=newyorkregion2010elections

National News

• Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s live-tweeted last week’s GOP debate: http://storify.com/ppact/gop-debate-9711
• Rates of HPV vaccination are low across the country: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-x-0907-hpv-vaccine-20110907,0,7366299.story
• In related news, a study shows that two doses of the HPV vaccine may be just as effective as three: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/womenshealth/story/2011-09-08/Two-doses-of-HPV-vaccine-may-work-as-well-as-three/50324740/1?loc=interstitialskip
• Conservatives are stepping up their efforts to prohibit funding for birth control: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/07/140156682/conservatives-step-up-attacks-on-public-funding-for-birth-control
• O, Oprah’s magazine, called our nation’s respect for women’s health severely in need of a makeover: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Things-That-Need-Upgrades-Donna-Brazile_1
• Interesting article on just how far away the negative depictions of black teenagers in pop culture often are from the reality: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/06/stepp.black.teens/

International News

• The UK is facing a possible abortion law: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMPsbhcM0Fy681c2M_nU_xJN-N2g?docId=8d9e839019334ff88f7c7ad400654dd1
• The NY Times ran an editorial calling for Obama to end a US policy of prohibiting assistance for abortion to victims of rape as a war crime: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/opinion/humanitarian-aid-for-rape-victims.html?ref=opinion

State News:

• It looks like Virginia might be enacting strict rules prohibiting abortion: http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/clouded-push-abortion-rules
• The South Dakota ruling was overturned, with “mixed” results: http://jezebel.com/5837456/south-dakota-allowed-to-make-doctors-discuss-existing-relationship-with-fetus
• Mother Jones has more detail: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/mixed-bag-south-dakota-abortion-script-decision
• Kansas is, in fact, paying Planned Parenthood some of the money it owes: http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/State_Pays_Federal_Funds_To_Planned_Parenthood_129371858.html?ref=858
• And Obama is bypassing a New Hampshire decision to refuse funding for reproductive health care and giving money straight to Planned Parenthood: http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110908/NEWS06/110909903
• Reuters also reports: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/us-plannedparenthood-newhampshire-idUSTRE7887DE20110909?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
• A personhood amendment will appear on Mississippi ballots in November: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/09/mississippi.personhood/
• Courts across the country are holding up a lot of the anti-choice and anti-reproductive health state laws: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/us/06legal.html

 That’s all we’ve got. What have you been reading that we missed?