Press Releases

Pennsylvanians for Choice

September 30, 2010

Media Contacts: Pittsburgh: Susan Frietsche, Women’s Law Project, Phone: 412-281-2892 Harrisburg: Sari Stevens, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates, Phone: 717-315-6871 Philadelphia: Rebecca Foley, WOMEN’S WAY, Phone: 508-615-0898 Statewide Coalition Condemns Proposed Abortion Ban Restricts women’s access to reproductive health coverage in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, PA: Today Pennsylvanians for Choice, a statewide coalition...Read More >

PLANNED PARENTHOOD PENNSYLVANIA PAC ENDORSES JOE HOEFFEL FOR GOVERNOR

April 8, 2010

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sari Stevens April 8, 2010 (717) 315-6871 PLANNED PARENTHOOD PENNSYLVANIA PAC ENDORSES JOE HOEFFEL FOR GOVERNOR Harrisburg, PA – The Board of the Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania PAC announced today that it is unanimously endorsing Democratic nominee Joe Hoeffel in the upcoming gubernatorial election. The organization says Hoeffel...Read More >

Teen Birth Rate Rises for the First Time in Fourteen Years

December 6, 2007

HARRISBURG - The Center for Disease Control release of the 2006 teen birth rate statistics confirmed what reproductive health care advocates know: the United States is facing a teen pregnancy health care crisis, and the national and state policy of abstinence-only programs just isn't working. According to newly released CDC data the rate of teen births nationally rose by 3% overall – the first increase in the teen birth rate since 1991 and identical to the rate of increase in the...Read More >

World AIDS Day Highlights Importance of Prevention

November 30, 2007

[30 November 2007] —- As the global community marks World AIDS Day on December 1, 2007, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates called on Congress to halt funding for harmful abstinence-only programs that deny teenagers lifesaving information about preventing infections like HIV/AIDS. "World AIDS Day is a powerful reminder of the importance of prevention — and of the fact that young people in the U.S., and right here in Pennsylvania, are being denied the information they need to protect...Read More >