Stand Up For Women's Health

Here are a few of the news stories we’ve been paying attention to over the past week:

Local News:

• Check out Lizz Winstead’s interview with the Village Voice about her benefit for us: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/lizz_winstead.php
• Joan Walsh also wrote about her benefit for us: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2011/09/22/planned_parenthood_benefit
• Jezebel has a first-person story by a woman who tried to go to our Brooklyn health center and would up in a CPC instead: http://jezebel.com/5842125/the-time-i-tried-to-get-an-abortion-from-a-crisis-pregnancy-center
• Which Gothamist picked up as well: http://gothamist.com/2011/09/21/cautionary_tale_about_anti-abortion.php
• The Chiaroscuro foundation is again trying to fight against sex education: http://gothamist.com/2011/09/26/conservatives_insist_that_sex_ed_wi.php

National News:

• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has officially ended: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140605121/with-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-an-era-ends
• Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have been going back and forth over the HPV vaccine: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64229.html
• While Denise Grady is saying that Bachmann’s comments on the HPV vaccine were extremely harmful: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/health/20hpv.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
• NYTimes editorial: where abortion rights are disappearing: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/where-abortion-rights-are-disappearing.html?_r=1
• According to USA Today, college students are split on the effectiveness of NYC’s sex ed mandate: http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/ccp/college-students-split-on-effectiveness-of-required-high-school-sex-ed
• While primetime show Grey’s Anatomy featured a character who gets an abortion: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/someone_actually_had_an_aborti.html?mid=partnerfeed
• Washington Post asks: does Obama have a “woman problem?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/barack-obama-doesnt-have-a-women-problem-at-least-not-yet/2011/09/20/gIQAmJTHiK_print.html
• Either way, his polls don’t look great: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/20/124702/poll-obama-expected-to-lose-but.html
• Cecile Richards is listed as a Huffington Post political game-changer: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/who-is-the-ultimate-game-_n_962974.html?1316572528#s362601&title=Cecile_Richards
• Priests for Life is in serious financial trouble: http://www.washingtonpost.com/on-faith/catholic-anti-abortion-group-in-financial-trouble/2011/09/23/gIQAl1UOrK_story.html
• Actress Aisha Tyler talks about why she supports Planned Parenthood in The Root: http://www.theroot.com/blogs/reproductive-health/4-questions-aisha-tyler
• There’s a new series of race-based anti-abortion in California, this time targeting black men: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-black-men-targeted-by-anti-abortion-billboard/

International News:

• Researchers say that the Millenium Development Goals will not be met by 2015: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14974145
• The Senate re-introduced a bill to permanently repeal the global gag rule: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/21/bill-permanently-overturning-global-rule-introduced-congress-0
• Peace Corps volunteers are now allowed to get abortions in cases of rape, incest, or danger to their lives: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/09/22/senate-committee-votes-lift-abortions-peace-corps-volunteers-cases-rape-life-endangerment-0
• Young people all over the world are having more unsafe sex than ever before: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44664040/ns/health-sexual_health

State News:

• Rick Perry slashes funds for women’s health: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140449957/gov-perry-cut-funds-for-womens-health-in-texas
• Looks like Michigan may pass a “partial birth abortion” ban: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/09/michigan_partial-birth_abortio_1.html
• Even though 1) such a thing doesn’t exist as a defined medical procedure and 2) what the bill refers to is already banned by federal law: http://jezebel.com/5843285/michigan-close-to-passing-partial+birth-abortion-ban
• A new California bill would allow minors to seek STD care without parental consent: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMbdm2TJi8QNSrgHHyilKZshwiOQ?docId=547c3822aa93438785d79184498764d0
• A woman in Idaho is challenging the state’s restriction on abortions after 20 weeks: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-rt-us-abortion-idahotre78n0k3-20110923,0,199947.story