An event in honor of the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN NEW YORK STATE
When: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway, 6 th Fl. (between Bleecker & Bond Streets)
Recent restrictions on abortion rights and access to contraception at the federal and state levels, including the Supreme Court's recent decision concerning the federal abortion ban, have further rolled back women's right to self-determination. In the face of these persistent attacks on our rights, what strategies and analysis are useful in our work to try to defend and advance the struggle for women's ability to control their reproduction? This event brings together activists, attorneys and allies to discuss past and recent victories and set-backs in the fight for reproductive rights, how these can be applied to our work today and ideas for action.
Speakers include:
Annie Tummino
Co-chair of the Women's Liberation Birth Control Project and lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the FDA's failure to approve the Morning-After Pill as an over-the-counter drug without any age restrictions.
Rhonda Copelon
Professor of Law and Director of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic of the City University of New York School of Law and lead attorney in Harris v. McRae, CCR's challenge to federal restrictions on the use of Medicaid funds for medically necessary abortions.
Nancy Stearns (invited)
Lead attorney in CCR's 1972 landmark case, Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz, which was the first challenge in the nation on behalf of a class of women to declare the NYS ban on abortion unconstitutional. The case sparked similar challenges in other states and created precedent for the Supreme Court's decision to legalize abortion in Roe.
NYS Assemblywoman Pat Eddington (invited)
Sponsor of the "Women's Reproductive Domain Act," in the NY State Assembly. This bill seeks to make a woman's decision whether to have an abortion a civil right that cannot be interfered with and any attempts to interfere with that right a form of discrimination.
Introductory remarks:
Andrea Costello
Organizer with Redstockings Allies and Veterans of the Women's Liberation Movement and CCR Staff Attorney.
Organized by:
The Women's Liberation Birth Control Project & The Center for Constitutional Rights
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
How Do Immigration Policies Affect People With or At Risk for HIV?
How Do Immigration Policies Affect People With or At Risk for HIV?
The national debate over immigration impacts the health of documented and undocumented people in our communities
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
6:30 - 8:30PM
LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street (Between 7th & 8th Avenues), NYC
Free ~ Open to the public ~ Refreshments provided
Since the beginning of the epidemic, HIV positive immigrants have faced daunting challenges accessing care and treatment. And HIV negative immigrants are at particular risk for HIV due to policies that force them to remain largely underground.
The recently revised entry ban on HIV positive travelers adds disturbing new criteria while upholding many of the cruel provisions of the original ban – an embarrassment to the country, prohibiting the International AIDS Conference from ever being held in the US. For 20 years, HIV positive immigrants already in the
country have been barred from achieving any recognized legal status except in extremely limited circumstances. They’ve also been barred from coming to the US to immigrate.
Join us to discuss the challenges facing immigrants in our increasingly isolationist country – and learn how to take action!
Speakers Include:
Sangeeta Budhiraja – Queers for Economic Justice
Amanda Lugg – African Services Committee
Nancy Ordover – GMHC
Moderated by: James Learned, CHAMP
Co-sponsored by:
African Services Committee, Bronx AIDS Services, Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Community
HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), Queers for Economic Justice, Harm
Reduction Coalition, Human Rights Watch-LGBT Rights Program, Immigration Equality, International Gay & Lesbian
Human Rights Commission, Lambda Legal, LGBT Center, NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)
List in formation
For more information or to be added as a co-sponsor, contact James at jlearned@champnetwork.org
or call (212) 937-7955 x 60.
www.champnetwork.org // www.gaycenter.org
The national debate over immigration impacts the health of documented and undocumented people in our communities
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
6:30 - 8:30PM
LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street (Between 7th & 8th Avenues), NYC
Free ~ Open to the public ~ Refreshments provided
Since the beginning of the epidemic, HIV positive immigrants have faced daunting challenges accessing care and treatment. And HIV negative immigrants are at particular risk for HIV due to policies that force them to remain largely underground.
The recently revised entry ban on HIV positive travelers adds disturbing new criteria while upholding many of the cruel provisions of the original ban – an embarrassment to the country, prohibiting the International AIDS Conference from ever being held in the US. For 20 years, HIV positive immigrants already in the
country have been barred from achieving any recognized legal status except in extremely limited circumstances. They’ve also been barred from coming to the US to immigrate.
Join us to discuss the challenges facing immigrants in our increasingly isolationist country – and learn how to take action!
Speakers Include:
Sangeeta Budhiraja – Queers for Economic Justice
Amanda Lugg – African Services Committee
Nancy Ordover – GMHC
Moderated by: James Learned, CHAMP
Co-sponsored by:
African Services Committee, Bronx AIDS Services, Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Community
HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), Queers for Economic Justice, Harm
Reduction Coalition, Human Rights Watch-LGBT Rights Program, Immigration Equality, International Gay & Lesbian
Human Rights Commission, Lambda Legal, LGBT Center, NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)
List in formation
For more information or to be added as a co-sponsor, contact James at jlearned@champnetwork.org
or call (212) 937-7955 x 60.
www.champnetwork.org // www.gaycenter.org
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Happy Hour this Monday!
Repro Health Happy Hour is this MONDAY from 6-9pm! Come celebrate the holidays at Fresh Salt bar on Beekman Street!
35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church and Planned Parenthood of New York City
invite you to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
and the
79th Birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
6:00 – 8:00 PM
HANSON PLACE CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
144 St. Felix Street at Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York
Special Keynote Speaker
THE REVEREND DR. JAMES A. FORBES, JR.
Dr. Forbes is Senior Minister, Emeritus, The Riverside Church in the City of New
York, founder of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, and host of “The Time
is Now” on Air America Radio
NOTE: Subway lines B, D, M, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 stop at Atlantic/Pacific or the Atlantic Avenue stop. Exit at Hanson Place. The following bus lines stop near the church: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67. The LIRR also stops at Atlantic Avenue.
invite you to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
and the
79th Birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
6:00 – 8:00 PM
HANSON PLACE CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
144 St. Felix Street at Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York
Special Keynote Speaker
THE REVEREND DR. JAMES A. FORBES, JR.
Dr. Forbes is Senior Minister, Emeritus, The Riverside Church in the City of New
York, founder of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, and host of “The Time
is Now” on Air America Radio
NOTE: Subway lines B, D, M, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5 stop at Atlantic/Pacific or the Atlantic Avenue stop. Exit at Hanson Place. The following bus lines stop near the church: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67. The LIRR also stops at Atlantic Avenue.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
TONIGHT! Polish Pro-Choice Hero!
Wanda Nowicka
President,
The Federation for Women and Family Planning
Astra Network, Poland
“Reproductive Rights in Poland
in the Context of the European Union”
Wanda Nowicka will discuss the predicaments of reproductive rights and health activism in Poland where abortion became illegal in 1993 as a result of the increased power of the Catholic Church. In response to these restrictions, Polish NGOs under Nowicka’s leadership have been conducting assertive advocacy and lobbying for reproductive health and rights. Their activism is increasingly turning to transnational actors, especially the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, to compel reproductive justice locally.
4:30 – 6:00 P.M., Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Hess Commons, 722 W. 168th Street (10th floor)
Reception will follow – please join us.
RSVPs would be appreciated: cm829@columbia.edu, (212) 304-5201
This event is sponsored by:
Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group (SHAG)
Columbia Center for Research in Population, Health, and Society (CUPC)
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
together with Ibis Reproductive Health
President,
The Federation for Women and Family Planning
Astra Network, Poland
“Reproductive Rights in Poland
in the Context of the European Union”
Wanda Nowicka will discuss the predicaments of reproductive rights and health activism in Poland where abortion became illegal in 1993 as a result of the increased power of the Catholic Church. In response to these restrictions, Polish NGOs under Nowicka’s leadership have been conducting assertive advocacy and lobbying for reproductive health and rights. Their activism is increasingly turning to transnational actors, especially the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, to compel reproductive justice locally.
4:30 – 6:00 P.M., Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Hess Commons, 722 W. 168th Street (10th floor)
Reception will follow – please join us.
RSVPs would be appreciated: cm829@columbia.edu, (212) 304-5201
This event is sponsored by:
Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group (SHAG)
Columbia Center for Research in Population, Health, and Society (CUPC)
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
together with Ibis Reproductive Health
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
"Got Health Care?" Event at PPNYC
What's all the talk about Health Care Reform?
We are hosting the second installment of a three-part series on health care reform entitled "Got Health Care?"
Come talk with state and national experts
in a Presentation of the Massachusetts Universal Health Care Plan
Tuesday, December 4th
6:00-7:30pm
26 Bleecker Street
7th Floor Conference Room
RSVP at choicevoice@ppnyc.org
We are hosting the second installment of a three-part series on health care reform entitled "Got Health Care?"
Come talk with state and national experts
in a Presentation of the Massachusetts Universal Health Care Plan
Tuesday, December 4th
6:00-7:30pm
26 Bleecker Street
7th Floor Conference Room
RSVP at choicevoice@ppnyc.org
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