Planned Parenthood Advocate

Planned Parenthood: Obama Reelection, Minnesota Triumphs Are ‘Resounding Victory For Women, By Women’

President Obama’s reelection – and the state-level successes in Minnesota – are a historic victory for women’s health, according to the Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund (PPMNSAF).

“This is a resounding victory for women – and by women. More than ever before, women’s health was a decisive issue in this election. Minnesotans voted to ensure that women will have access to affordable health care and be able to make their own medical decisions,” said Sarah Stoesz, President of the PPMNSAF.

[VIDEO] Lizz Winstead on Rachel Maddow, headlines Minneapolis Planned Parenthood Fundraiser 5/22

Lizz Winstead, who will be performing on May 22nd at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis to benefit the Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund, was featured on the Rachel Maddow Show to talk about her new book, Lizz Free or Die, and the ongoing political War on Women.

Check it out!

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>Register to see Lizz at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis on May 22nd to support the Planned Parenthood Action Fund!

Pledge a Protester on Good Friday!

Every year on Good Friday, anti-choice protesters gather to protest a woman's right to choose at our clinic in St. Paul. This year, we are expecting over 1,000 protesters at our brand new St. Paul Vandalia Street Planned Parenthood Health Center and headquarters. It can be a challenging day for our patients and staff, confronting large crowds of opponents of women's health care. But there is something you can do to help.

Make the protest against women's health care and Planned Parenthood backfire by pledging every anti-choice protester. The more anti-choicers that show up at our clinic, the more money raised by our supporters for Planned Parenthood to continue providing women's health care to our region.

Click to Pledge a Protester!

Statement of Sarah Stoesz, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, on the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Decision to Reinstate Funding for Breast Cancer Screenings at Planned Parenthood Health Centers Nationwide

The outpouring of support for women in need of lifesaving breast cancer screening this week has been astonishing and is a testament to our nation's compassion and sincerity.

This show of support underscores what a critical resource Planned Parenthood is in the fight to detect and prevent breast cancer.  We were so heartened by the calls and emails we received from people in our region, who made it clear that they did not like to see politics playing a role in women’s health care. 

During the last week, millions spontaneously joined a national conversation about lifesaving breast cancer prevention care and reinforced shared values about access to health care for all.  This compassionate outcry in support of those most in need rose above political, ideological, and cultural divides, and will surely be recognized as one of our nation's better moments during a contentious political time.  Planned Parenthood thanks each and every person who has contributed to elevating the importance of breast cancer prevention for so many women in need.

We are very happy the Susan G. Komen Foundation has had a change of heart.  This decision will mean that women around the country who need life-saving cancer screenings will still be able to acess them.

Contact: Jen Aulwes, 651.755.9557

Vote for the most outrageous statement of 2011!

It's been a big year for ridiculous and ignorant statements about women's health. Thank goodness for the folks at the Comedy Central for helping us roll with the ridiculous as we endured these outrageous and baseless assertions.While Planned Parenthood has long been working to promote good policy that favors health and education, we've recently adopted our own new policy in response to these groan-worthy assertions: let's have a sense of humor, and roll with the ridiculous.

And so, it's time for you, our level-headed, reasonable champions of women’s health, to weigh in on this most pressing matter: Who is most deserving of Planned Parenthood's 2011 WTH?!? Award?

>Click here to vote for Planned Parenthood's 2011 WTH?!? Award.

(That's "What the Heck?!?" for those not savvy with abbreviations. We're sure you've wondered that once or twice this year. We sure know we have, and sometimes when we exclaim it, we've even used crasser language than that. Don't tell our grandmas!)

And don't worry - we did the homework for you and narrowed it down to the Final Four most dumbfoundingly, forehead-smackingly ignorant statements. Drum roll please...

Is it the twice-nominated Michele Bachmann... ...for taking to the floor of Congress to erroneously but hilariously bemoan the availability of drive-through abortions in suburban shopping centers?

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Mother F#@kers
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Or...for making her now infamous and glaringly uninformed claim about the HPV vaccine?

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Uncensored - HPV Mandate & Pro-Vagina Controversy
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Is it good ol’ Senator Jon Kyl, for his “not intended to be a factual statement"... statement about Planned Parenthood?

 

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Both Colbert Report and The Daily Show had something to say about this one!

...Or was it our good friends at Fox News for their uproarious assertion that certain, er, women’s health procedures can be obtained at Walgreen’s?

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Pap Smears at Walgreens
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We all know better, and so we can only laugh. Watch the clips. Cast your vote. Tell us, what was the most outrageous statement.

Because when you bang your head against your desk long enough after listening to this stuff, sometimes you do forget. Can someone pass me an aspirin?

>Click to vote for the most outrageous statement about reproductive health in 2011