Here’s what we’ve been following the past week:
- PPNYC’s President and CEO Joan Malin had a great piece in the Huffington Post reminding us all that yes, abortion counts as health care.
- The fantastic magazine New Youth Connections, which is distributed in public schools throughout the city, has a great feature on PPNYC’s “We’re Going to the Principal’s Office” campaign,
- Public News Service interviewed PPNYC about providing health care to those without insurance.
- CBS has decided to air an anti-choice ad during the Super Bowl next week.
- Even though it also decided to reject an ad for a gay dating site because it deemed the commercial inappropriate.
- Local news site DNAinfo talked to PPNYC about the CBS anti-choice ad.
- Francis Kisslingwrote about CBS’s decision to air the ad in the Washington Post this weekend.
- And the NY Times ran an editorial about it over the weekend.
- The Guttmacher Institute came out with a study saying that in 2006 teen pregnancy rose for the first time since 1990.
- Metro NY reported that the same study also saw some of the highest rates of pregnancy and abortion in New York State.
- And the NY Times had an editorial about it over the weekend.
- Scott Roeder was convicted of first degree murder for killing of Dr. George Tiller. The jury reportedly deliberated for less than an hour.
- Groups are calling for Obama to keep his promise to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
That’s all we’ve got. What have you been reading?
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