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Planned Parenthood Welcomes President Obama!


We are so excited to (finally!) have a president who fights for women's health, and we know you must be, too. There are plenty of ways to show your support for Barack Obama and women's health online:

-Change your main profile image on Facebook or MySpace to one of these awesome Obama graphics (save the graphic of your choice to your hard drive, then upload as your own profile picture.)

-Update your social networking status to say "_____ is proud to have a president who fights for women's health."

-Visit the discussion board and let us know what this new day for women's health means to you.

-You can also join the conversation on the Planned Parenthood blog.

Thank you again for your dedication and energy through this historical election season. It's all led up to this point, when we get to proudly say we now have a president who will fight for women's health. Go, Obama!

PLANNED PARENTHOOD APPLAUDS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FY10 BUDGET PROPOSAL

includes expanding Medicaid family planning programs to prevent unintended pregnancies and strengthen women's health care

Planned Parenthood applauds President Barack Obama for living up to his commitment to supporting women’s health and investing in commonsense proposals to expand family planning programs. President Obama’s 2010 budget includes a provision to expand family planning under Medicaid, which would help extend basic health care to millions more women. In addition, the president’s budget promotes “evidence-based” teen pregnancy prevention programs.

“We commend the president for his commitment to make family planning and basic health care services, including lifesaving cancer screenings, more accessible and affordable to millions of low-income women and their families,” said PPFA President Cecile Richards. “With women and their families losing health coverage every day, we applaud the president for making women’s health a priority as he works to reform our health care system.”
[read the full news release]

FIRST 100 DAYS OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SEES WOMEN’S HEALTH BECOME A NATIONAL PRIORITY

It’s been a tremendous 100 days for those of us committed to strengthening women’s health care and ensuring that young people have the information and care they need to become healthy and productive adults. Thanks to President Obama's leadership, health care decisions are now being driven by sound science and not political ideology.

“While on the campaign trail, President Obama promised women and their families that he would not only tackle health care reform, but also end the politicization of women’s health. And in what by any measure has been a busy 100 days, President Obama has lived up to that promise,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “It’s been a tremendous 100 days for those of us committed to strengthening women’s health care and ensuring that young people have the information and care they need to become healthy and productive adults. Thanks to President Obama's leadership, health care decisions are now being driven by sound science and not political ideology. That’s change we all can believe in — and change that will succeed in reducing our nation’s alarming rate of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. It’s change that puts prevention first — to the benefit of all women and their families.”
  • Health Care Reform — President Obama convened the White House Forum on Health Care Reform, signaling his commitment to ensuring every American has access to quality, affordable health care. PPFA President Cecile Richards was invited to participate and share how the organization, as a leading health care provider, sees the need to reform the nation’s health care system to ensure that access to women’s health is a priority.
  • Affordable Birth Control —The president signed legislation to restore access to affordable birth control for millions of college students and low-income women, and help ensure access to affordable contraception for millions of women, especially in these tough economic times.
  • Budget Priorities — In his proposed budget, the president included a commonsense Medicaid waiver to expand family planning under Medicaid and called for evidence-based, medically accurate sex education.
  • Global Gag Rule — With the stroke of a pen, President Obama overturned the global gag rule and once again allowed millions of women around the world access to critical reproductive health care services.
  • HHS Midnight Rule — The Obama administration began the process of rescinding the Bush administration’s midnight HHS regulation that limits the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate health care information and services.
  • Secretary of State — With the appointment of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Obama signaled his commitment to approach the issues of women’s health and rights, family planning, and global poverty with the seriousness and commitment they deserve. Secretary Clinton understands that improving the status of women is not simply a moral imperative; it is necessary to building democracies around the globe.
  • Health and Human Services Secretary — The president, nominated longtime champion of women’s health, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, to be the secretary of HHS. Governor Sebelius has been a strong advocate for health care reform and has a proven track record of supporting increased access to affordable health care and commonsense prevention policies that improve health outcomes.
  • White House Council on Women and Girls — The president established the White House Council on Women and Girls to focus on a wide range of issues facing American women and their families, including the high rate of unintended pregnancies and the alarming number of sexually transmitted infections.
  • Plan B — Under the Obama administration, the FDA now supports over-the-counter access to Plan B (emergency contraception) for women 17 years and older.
  • AIDS Outreach — President Obama has made a strong commitment to developing a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce the number of HIV infections, increase access to health care, and reduce HIV-related health disparities to address the growing HIV/AIDS crisis among women and girls in the United States.