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Opinion: The GOP's Dangerous Attack on Planned Parenthood

Mar 8th 2011 – 5:00AM
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In 1916, one woman's strength, determination and conviction helped open the door for hundreds of millions of women worldwide to plan their own pregnancies. As a nation, we have made great strides since Margaret Sanger opened that first family planning clinic in New York City nine decades ago, and Planned Parenthood is...

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  • 06/01/12 Protect Women's Health Source: Scientific American - Health Almost 100 years ago Margaret Sanger opened a tiny birth-control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Poor Yiddish- and Italian-speaking women, overwhelmed by large families that they could not support, would come for advice about how to avoid pregnancy and the dangers of horrific, sometimes life-threatening, self-administered abortions.
  • 05/31/12 An Exposé Before a Vote on Gender-Based Abortions Source: The New York Times - New York NY As the House prepared to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender, a group opposed to abortion rights has stepped up its campaign using hoax patient visits and hidden cameras to show Planned Parenthood employees offering guidance to women looking to terminate their pregnancies because they were concerned about having a girl.
  • 05/29/12 Want to see the REAL War on Women? Live Action Video:... Source: The Jawa Report Did I move to China and no one told me I did ?
  • 05/29/12 Want to see the REAL War on Women? Live Action Video:... Source: The Jawa Report Did I move to China and no one told me I did ?
  • 05/21/12 Michael Steele: Planned Parenthood used abortions to... Source: The Raw Story Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to "eliminate and limit" the African-American population.

Background on margaret sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist.

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