About me: In health centers, on the streets, and in the Legislature, Planned Parenthood of Florida is at the forefront of the reproductive health and rights movement in the Sunshine State. We work hard every day to make sure that the movement toward reproductive freedom for all is sustained, vibrant and relentless!!!
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The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)and the Healthy Teens Campaign of Florida have released a report on the state of sexual health and education in Florida. Read the full report to learn more about youth health statistics and the effect of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs across Florida. Read this informative blog post from FAPPA's Executive Director, watch the video report below and click on this map to find out more:
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Who I'd like to meet: People of all ages throughout Florida who want to stand up and make a difference to protect our rights. Those who want to take part in advocacy events and activities.. and are not afraid to have some FUN!
Spread the Word: Florida Gets An F!
Teens today aren't getting the facts. Instead, they are getting medically-inaccurate information - or no information at all - from ineffective abstinence-only programs. And it's putting their lives at risk!!
Teens are used to getting grades, but now they are grading Florida schools - and Florida gets an F! Watch our video and sign up for our Action Network to get involved.
It is irresponsible to withhold information from teens that can protect them from unintended pregnancy and dangerous infections - and that may just save their lives. Bulletin this video, send to your friends and post on your profile to spread the word...
Want another way to make a difference? Tell your lawmakers to put Prevention First!
The Prevention First Act ensures access to birth control and reduces unintended pregnancies by guaranteeing access to emergency contraception for rape survivors, protecting the right to birth control for all women, and protecting the right to have lawful and valid prescriptions filled at the pharmacy.
Click here to sign the petition:
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Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando now offers a Sex Ed Textline! **407-443-1750**
Our staff is available to discuss a wide range of issues and answer your questions. The Planned Parenthood Textline offers anonymous answers to questions about: ~sexual behavior ~reproductive health ~birth control ~abstinence ~STDs and HIV ~pregnancy options ~communicating with partners and parents
Our staff offers objective information and the support necessary for you to make personal and private decisions. Text messages sent to the Textline are completely confidential and free of charge. However, standard text messaging rates may apply.
**407-443-1750**
The Textline is for educational purposes only. We do not provide medical advice. To make an appointment at one of our clinics, please call 407-246-1788.
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The same radical right-wing groups behind Florida's divisive Amendment 2 are at it again. This time they are promoting Gainesville's Charter Amendment 1, which is designed to take existing basic anti-discrimination protections away from the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.
Progress Florida has joined groups as diverse as the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, Gainesville City Commission, Equality Florida, ACLU of Florida and Planned Parenthood in opposition to the Charter Amendment. It is critical that this measure be defeated because we know that if it works in Gainesville the radical right will try it in other Florida cities - and on issues that extend beyond rights for LGBT Floridians. For more details read our blog entryhere.
Every ten years, politicians in Tallahassee rig the playing field by carving out districts designed to keep them in power. They pick their voters rather than the voters picking them.
That's how President Obama convincingly won Florida, yet Republicans in the legislature maintained their ironclad majorities.
Progress Florida promotes progressive values through online organizing, media outreach, networking with Florida's leading progressive organizations, and empowering citizens (that's you) to push for progressive change throughout the Sunshine State. To learn more and take action visit www. ProgressFlorida. org.
you have saved my life and loved me as your own too many times; i return the love by educating my daughter (and former students who i gave extra credit to for getting free condoms and signing up for health exams) and celebrating today with her and the beauty of being goddesses of our own destinies...please feel my love respect gratitude adoration and inspiration...you are so loved and needed...always...
Bisexual? Fluid? Pansexual? Omnisexual? Hetroflexible or Homoflexible? or maybe you're more of the "no boxes please - I'm just me" type. How do YOU identify yourself?
This summer, the Bush administration tried to keep secret a proposed federal regulation that would allow health care providers to redefine abortion to include birth control. With your help, we forced Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt to make the plans public.
Then the administration submitted the proposed rule for public comments. More than 200,000 people — including more than 90,000 Planned Parenthood supporters like you, and more than 150 members of Congress — immediately called on the Bush administration to withdraw this damaging proposal that could keep millions of people from receiving basic health information and necessary medical care.
The White House had also promised that no new regulations would be issued after November 1.
Well, it's now November 14, and guess what? President Bush is poised to implement this disastrous new policy as soon as next week. Tell the Bush administration: Keep your word. Stop the attack on women's health.
Less than two weeks ago, the American people voted to move past the Bush administration's policies that have done so much harm to women, men, and families in need of comprehensive reproductive health care. In elections at local, state and federal levels — including the election of Barack Obama, the first pro-choice president in eight years, and the defeat of three dangerous anti-choice ballot initiatives in California, Colorado, and South Dakota — the American people spoke out loudly for new policies that put the needs and rights of patients first. It's outrageous that President Bush is using his last days in office to implement a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information.
This new rule could allow almost 600,000 health care entities who receive federal funding to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control— and then refuse to provide these basic services. For any health provider
Thanks for the add!!!!!!!! & helping support the restoration of affordable birth control. just wondering if I can contact your organization to discuss the issues and any information you might have to assist me on the campaign? (price increases, fluctuations you have seen in different options being used by females, etc) Thanks!
