Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2012.  May’s employment report shows the economy continues to confront strong headwinds. The addition of a mere 65,000 jobs last month and a small uptick in the unemployment rate is alarming and unacceptable.  Most frustrating is the fact that it is not the means for recovery that[Read More…]

Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2012.  Three years to the day since the murder of abortion provider and women’s health activist Dr. George Tiller, irrational anti-abortion attacks continue. Today it is extremists in Congress seizing on sex-selection abortions overseas to bash U.S. women and their doctors.[Read More…]

NOTE: Two-thirds of the House needed to vote in favor to pass H.R. 3541, and it only got 246 votes. NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2012. Statement by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America: “This bill would not have advanced women’s health and equity. It would have imposed harmful restrictions[Read More…]

Calls on Congress to Focus on Legislation That Would Advance health and Equity for Women NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—May 30, 2012.  Planned Parenthood Federation of America today said it strongly opposes legislation in the House that would impose harmful restrictions on women’s health care and interfere with the doctor/patient relationship. Planned Parenthood[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2012.  Statement from Leslie Kantor, MPH, vice president of education for Planned Parenthood Federation of America “As a nonprofit health care provider with nearly 800 health centers, Planned Parenthood provides access to professional, nonjudgmental, affordable reproductive health care, ensuring nearly three million patients receive preventive and lifesaving[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2012. The full text of the op-ed by President Barack Obama is printed below. The piece was published today in Military.com, Military Times and Stars and Stripes. Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans By President Obama Today, all across America, we’re coming together to remember our men and[Read More…]

Statement by Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards on Gallup Poll Results on U.S. Attitudes Toward Abortion and Birth Control: “Abortion is a deeply personal and often complex decision for a woman. NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2012.  “What this poll makes clear is that labels like ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life’ simply[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2012.  Today, President Obama visited a manufacturer of wind turbine blades in Newton, Iowa to call on Congress to renew the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy. The PTC helps level the playing field and is critical for providing the certainty that the wind industry needs[Read More…]

“It is unbelievable that in the year 2012 we have to fight for access to birth control,” says Planned Parenthood. Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2012.  Today’s lawsuits filed against the Obama administration’s birth control benefit seek to restrict women’s access to low-cost birth control, which is both a basic economic and[Read More…]

NRDC: Obama has chance to limit industry’s undue influence at NRC  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2012 – The following is a statement by Christopher Paine, nuclear program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the announced resignation of Greg Jaczko as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Greg Jaczko set a[Read More…]