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This group was later renamed as Black Women For Reproductive Justice (BWRJ). [citation needed] In March 2008, Chicago Abortion Fund started a public access television show called The A Word featured on television channel CAN-TV 21 and YouTube. [4] The program's hosts discuss reproductive health and answer questions from viewers.
2017 Chicago Women's March. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services was before the US Supreme Court in 1989. The Court ruled in a case over a Missouri law that banned abortions being performed in public buildings unless there was a need to save the life of the mother, required physicians to determine if a fetus was past 20 weeks and was viable ...
On that day, the Clergy Consultation Service of New York opened the first freestanding outpatient abortion clinic in the U.S., the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (later known as Women's Services), under the medical direction of Dr. Hale Harvey III and the administration of graduate student Barbara Pyle.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global non-governmental organisation with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health, and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning.
This conference was the starting point for a coordinated global reproductive health supplies movement. In 2003 the Supply Initiative was established as a coordinating mechanism. In 2004, 12 organizations, mostly donors from the public and non-governmental sectors, established the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
Peter Brinsden in 2007. Peter Robert Brinsden MBBS, MRCS, LRCP, FRCOG (born 2 September 1940) is known for the treatment of infertility in couples. From 1989 to 2006 he was the medical director of Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK, a leading centre for the treatment of fertility problems, and where about 6,000 babies have been conceived using IVF and other assisted conception treatments.
As of 2011, forty-seven states and the District of Columbia had laws allowing certain people to decline to perform certain actions or provide information related to abortion or reproductive health. [368] At the federal level, the Church Amendment of 1973 was proposed to protect private hospitals objecting to abortion from being deprived of funding.
Faye Wattleton (born Alyce Faye Wattleton; 8 July 1943) is an American reproductive rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position.