Ruth Messinger and I spoke last night at the annual dinner of ChoiceMatters – Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion at the Scarsdale Women’s Club.

Vicki Cowart:

January 28, 2016

“I’m so inspired by the support shown for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains this morning at the Breakfast of Champions in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
New Mexicans from across the state converged with a clear message: We are united to protect reproductive rights and access to compassionate health care and real sex-ed. We won’t be deterred. Thank you Alexander Sanger for your moving words, and thank you to all who attended!”

source: http://www.facebook.com/vicki.cowart.5

By Barbara Goldberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Outside the crumbling Brooklyn building where the first U.S. birth control clinic opened 100 years ago, Alexander Sanger reflected on the move that landed his grandmother in jail and fueled a controversy over women’s reproductive rights that has raged ever since.

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After the killings in the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in December 1994, we at Planned Parenthood of New York City ran the ad below in the New York Times.
Some things never change, or are slow to change. The rhetoric of opponents of safe and legal abortion most definitely contributed to the mindset of the attacker. These opponents are as responsible as the killer. They aided and abetted the man with the assault rifle. Continue reading →

by Alexander Sanger

Entrapment, then jail for birth control? Not for abortion, for birth control? The idea would be ludicrous if not for the recent use of entrapment and edited videos trying to establish the ‘guilt’ of family planning providers allegedly ‘selling’ fetal remains after legal abortions. The attack here is on family planning providers, and Planned Parenthood in particular, with Congress and state legislatures trying eliminate their funding, thereby forcing Planned Parenthood to close its doors and stop serving patients unable to pay. Continue reading →

by Cristina Silver, September 25, 2015

Planned Parenthood has harsh words for Pope Francis after the leader of the Roman Catholic Church championed life — including before birth — in his address to Congress on Thursday. Francis and the church are limiting women’s rights by urging Catholics not to use contraception, said a spokesman for the women’s health organization. Continue reading →

No More Deja Vu
by Alexander Sanger

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will define the global development agenda for the next 15 years, will be formally adopted by heads of state at the United Nations beginning today.
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by Alexander Sanger

Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Council, an inter-governmental body charged with upholding human rights around the world, issued a resolution on the importance of the family in achieving sustainable development. Continue reading →