Know Your Rights: Advocating for Your Sexual and Reproductive Health
This guest post comes from the Planned Parenthood Arizona Education Team’s Casey Scott-Mitchell, who serves as the community education & training coordinator at Planned Parenthood Arizona. It’s...
View ArticleDue Protections: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 40
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1977. Photo: Lynn Gilbert Today, Susan Struck’s political positions are nothing that would stick out in a red state like Arizona. A few years ago, she joined the chorus of...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Can Older Adults Receive the HPV Vaccine?
When the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were introduced, a lot of people were excited about protection from a sexually transmitted virus that could cause cancers, including cervical cancer, anal...
View ArticleMaternal Mortality: A National Embarrassment
Americans spend more money on childbirth than any other country, but we’re not getting a good return on our investment. Less than a century ago, approximately one mother died for every 100 live births...
View ArticleMeet Our Candidates: January Contreras for Arizona Attorney General
The time to fight back — and fight forward — for reproductive justice is fast approaching. The stakes are high in this year’s state election, with candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney...
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Photo: Lauren Walker A proud announcement to start the rundown this week: We are NOT backing down in our fight to expand access to abortion, birth control, and reproductive health care across the...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Transgender Men and Cervical Health
Healthy cervical cells as seen under a microscope. Image: National Cancer Institute Just one month ago, headlines screamed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received a list of...
View ArticleBest of the Blog: 2017 Edition
It’s been a rough year. Ever since the 45th president was inaugurated in January, we have been pushing back against attempts to overturn the rights of women, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, people of color,...
View ArticleEroding the Birth Control Mandate
The Trump Administration made its boldest move against contraception access on Friday, when it reversed Obama-era policies requiring most employers to include birth control in employee insurance plans....
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Let’s start this week’s rundown on a ridiculous note. Apparently a bunch of weirdos think a sticker on the head of a penis is an alternative to a condom. #FacePalm (Slate) 45’s administration...
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
The Congressional Budget Office just released its scoring of “Trumpcare.” As anyone with half a wit about them presumed, it’s not favorable. And it’s not a good look for the GOP. Twenty-three million...
View ArticleThe American Health Care Act, Act 2
It’s time to raise your voice. When the House of Representatives failed to pass the American Health Care Act in March, we thought they would move on to other things. They had already faced the wrath of...
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Our smarmy Vice President Mike Pence was all too eager to cast the tie-breaking Senate vote to advance legislation allowing states the right to block Title X funds from going to Planned Parenthood. In...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name: Repealing the Affordable Care Act
Supporters drop off petitions and rally at Rep. Martha McSally’s Tucson office, March 15, 2017 As this post goes to press, word has come that Speaker Paul Ryan has pulled the American Health Care Act,...
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Photo: Debra Sweet It goes without saying that these are uncertain, uneasy times for many of us living in America right now. We have an unstable, habitually dishonest, temperamentally unfit egomaniac...
View ArticleTom Price, Secretary Against Health and Human Services?
Protesters at Sen. McCain’s Tucson office, December 20, 2016. On December 20, I took part in a demonstration opposing changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We gathered...
View ArticleMeet Our Candidates: Scott Prior for State Senator, LD 16
The Arizona primary election takes place TODAY! Find your polling location here. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates...
View ArticleMeet Our Candidates: Cara Prior for State Representative, LD 16
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 30, 2016. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Contraception: Contraceptive Changes on the Horizon
The Affordable Care Act has undeniably improved women’s ability to receive preventive care that includes contraception. Insured women are now able to have any FDA-approved birth control provided to...
View ArticleSenate Bill 1318: It’s Not Just a Bill
The following post comes to us via Brittany Frew, who is (almost) a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in marketing. She hopes to go into either advertising or health care, but mostly...
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