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welcome to ppav
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia's mission is to preserve and broaden reproductive freedom through legislation, public education, electoral activity, and litigation in the Commonwealth of Virginia. PPAV works to ensure that individuals and families have the freedom, information, and ability to make their own informed reproductive choices.
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campaign for affordable birth control
What if Congress passed a law that made the price of your groceries go up
by 900 percent? There would be an instant uproar! And you can bet the problem
would be fixed, immediately. Because of a technical error made by Congress in 2005, the cost
of birth control has sky rocketed on college campuses and in health centers
across the country. Women who were paying $5 to $10 per month are now paying $40
to $50 for the same prescription. For the college students and low-income women
affected by this cost hike, that’s no small matter.
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virginia general assembyl session summary
Each
year, there are 15-20 anti-choice bills introduced in the Virginia
General Assembly, including attempts to close clinics and limit access
to FDA-approved methods of birth control. Virginia's legislature is so
extreme that even the Birth Control Protection Act, a measure to simply define birth control and protect it from Virginia's laws restricting abortion,
has failed in recent sessions. The Birth Control Protection Act is part
of Planned Parenthood's effort to put prevention first and engage with
reasonable legislators of all political parties on common-sense,
common-ground solutions like family planning and sexuality education.
2008 reproductive rights report >>
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victory in virginia: anti-choice budget amendments defeated
Planned Parenthood of Virginia hailed the decision by the
House and Senate budget conferees to remove an anti-family planning amendment offered
by State Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37) to the House Budget bill (HB 30).
Senator Cuccinelli’s amendment specifically targeted Planned Parenthood from
receiving state funding for prevention health care services including gynecological
exams, pap smears, cancer screenings, contraception, and testing and treatment
for sexually transmitted infections. We are especially grateful to our friends on the Budget Conference Committee who fought hard for women's health: Senator Edd Houck (D-17), Senator Janet Howell (D-32), Senator Dick Saslaw (D-35) and Delegate Johnny Joannou (D-79).
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