Body Politic '08: Pro-Choice Poker!

Join Us and Celebrate Change in 2008!

For New York, the 2008 Election will be the time for pro-choice political change and the Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund is committed to making that change happen.

But we need pro-choice New Yorkers like you!

Fight for Your Rights. Party.

Pro-Choice Poker!

Saturday, November 17
5-9pm
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Tickets $20

Meet other pro-choice New Yorkers, play a friendly* game of poker and support the important political work of the Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund.

Your $20 ticket to this fabulous party also gets you a one-year membership to the Action Fund. As a member, you'll get all the latest info on how to make pro-choice political change in 2008 and beyond. Bring friends and get them signed up as Action Fund members too!

Click Here to RSVP

Can't make it to this event? There will be Body Politic '08 events happening throughout the year leading up to the 2008 Election. Click here to find out about other upcoming parties and check back often!

*Games are for fun not money.

JOIN US: November 12 Rally for Affordable Birth Control!

Join NYU: Voices for Choice, NOW-NYU, NYU Law Students for Reproductive Justice at the Birth Control Cri$is Rally!!!

Monday, November 12th

4:45-6pm

Washington Square Park

When the Deficit Reduction Act (passed by Congress in 2005) took effect this year, students and low-income women were left out in the cold! College health centers and safety-net providers, like Planned Parenthood, had previously been able to purchase birth control from drug companies at an extremely discounted rate. But no more. As a result, affordable birth control has become out of reach for many college women. For example, the cost of a pack of birth control on some campuses has risen from $5 to nearly $50 a month!

Send Congress a message to restore access to affordable birth control for college students and low-income women!

Featuring Special Guest Speakers:
U.S. Representative Joseph Crowley

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn

Meena Shah, NYU Voices for Choice

And others!

Sign the Hyde Petition!

The following is a petition from the Hyde - 30 Years is Enough! Campaign, who is working to secure full reproductive access for low income women:

Dear Friend,

Abortion is still legal in the U.S., but every year thousands of women are denied this right because they don’t have the money to pay for abortion care.

Low-income women are often forced to use money they need for food and rent to cover the cost of an abortion. Many women cannot raise enough money and must continue the pregnancy and stay trapped in poverty. Women face this difficult situation because in 1976 Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, which excludes abortion from government-funded health care programs.

We urge you to join the more than 60 groups in the Hyde – 30 Years is Enough! Campaign demanding an end to this injustice! Sign our petition calling on Congress to repeal the Hyde Amendment and restore coverage of abortion for low-income women.
Women enrolled in Medicaid and similar programs receive coverage for all medically necessary health care services, including prenatal care, labor, and delivery. However, as a result of the Hyde Amendment, a woman enrolled in Medicaid is denied assistance in most circumstances if the care she needs is an abortion.

Sign the petition and make your voice heard! Our goal is to collect 20,000 signatures to deliver to Congress by January 22, 2008. With your help we can meet this goal! Please forward this email to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to sign.

By signing the petition, you join a strong, national effort called the Hyde – 30 Years is Enough! Campaign. The campaign is led by the National Network of Abortion Funds, a network of groups that raise money to help women cover the cost of abortions. A complete list of organizations participating in the campaign can be found here.

Please join us and sign the petition now!

Together, we can create a society in which all women have the power and resources necessary to make healthy decisions about their bodies and families.

Thank you,
The Hyde – 30 Years is Enough! Campaign

www.hyde30years.nnaf.org

After Happy Hour this Tuesday....

Jennifer Baumgardner, Kara Jesella, and Marisa Meltzer!

TUESDAY, October 30th * 8 PM* LAST EXIT BAR, 136 ATLANTIC AVENUE, DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN* $5 suggested donation

Please join us on Tuesday, October 30th, for our second reading of the season, as Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer (HOW SASSY CHANGED MY LIFE) and Jennifer Baumgardner (LOOK BOTH WAYS) read in support of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.

Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer are the New York–based authors of HOW SASSY CHANGED MY LIFE: A LOVE LETTER TO THE GREATEST TEEN MAGAZINE OF ALL TIME. They have written and edited for publications such as The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Elle Girl, Bitch, Jane, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon,Nerve, and Elle.

Jennifer Baumgardner is a Brooklyn-based magazine writer and author. She is the co-author of Manifesta and Grassroots, and the author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. She has written for The Nation, Jane, Glamour, National Public Radio, and Out.

Founded in 2004, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit summer day camp serving girls aged 8-18 in New York City. The program offers girls the chance to learn how to play musical instruments, write songs, perform, learn about different types of music, and generally “rock out” in a supportive environment that fosters self-confidence, self-esteem, creativity, tolerance, and collaboration. Rock camp is dedicated to youth empowerment through music. The program is founded on the proposition that music can serve as a powerful tool of self-expression and self-esteem-building for girls and young women, and can help combat racism and stereotypes by building bridges of communication and shared experience among girls from diverse communities.

THE HISTORY OF ABORTION IN AMERICA

DR. EDGAR MANDEVILLE, DIRECTOR, OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER
INVITES YOU TO

GRAND ROUNDS: "THE HISTORY OF ABORTION IN AMERICA"
BY
KENNETH C. EDELIN, M.D.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
author of
BROKEN JUSTICE. A TRUE STORY OF RACE, SEX AND REVENGE IN A BOSTON COURTROOM

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2007
4 - 5:30 PM
HERBERT CAVE AUDITORIUM
HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER
506 LENOX AVENUE (AT 135TH STREET)
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: WWW.BROKENJUSTICE.COM.
PLEASE RSVP TO: ROBIN@PONDVIEWPRESS.COM BY MONDAY NOVEMBER 5TH.
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BROKEN JUSTICE is the true story about Dr. Ken Edelin, a young, black doctor who arrived in Boston in 1971 to do his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital. In January of 1975, he was put on trial for murder – the charge resulting from an abortion he had performed on a 17-year-old girl – before a jury that was all white, predominantly male, and overwhelmingly Catholic. The dynamic confluences of race, sex, and revenge played out in a Boston courtroom during the six-week trial. With recent Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights, BROKEN JUSTICE is important reading for pro-choicers and pro-lifers alike.

WORDS OF CHOICE EVENTS

Sunday, October 28
Two Exciting Events with
WORDS OF CHOICE

An Evening of New Works

Directed by Francesca Mantani Arkus
With: Patricia A. Chilsen, Christopher D. Burris, Esosa Edosomwan,
Carl H. Jaynes, Nairoby Otero

Words of Choice, a theater company devoted to artistic explorations of women's freedom and choice, presents new works about sex, pregnancy, abortion, contraception and activism. Reception follows.

Sunday October 28, 2007, 7 pm
The TACT Studio, 900 Broadway (at 20th St.), Suite 905

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Creativity Workshop: Artistic Investigations of Reproductive Rights

Led by Francesca Mantani Arkus, Cindy Cooper, Suzanne Grossman

An afternoon of creative exercises to jump start artistic writings and performances related to choice, sponsored by Words of Choice.

Sunday October 28 2007, 2-5 pm
The TACT Studio, 900 Broadway (at 20th St.), Suite 905

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Tickets for each event: Voluntary donation -- $5-$15
Advance purchase: www.brownpapertickets.com

Information: 212-560-2616, www.wordsofchoice.org
wordsofchoice@mindspring.com

"Politics and the F Word: Does Feminism Matter?"

"Politics and the F Word: Does Feminism Matter?" is featuring panelists Hillary Clinton Strategist Ann Lewis, Us Weekly Editor Janice Min, Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten, NYU Public Affairs SVP Lynne Brown and Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin to talk about a number of issues surrounding the issue of women and politics. The discussion is much-needed. Yes, we have a female Speaker of the House and leading presidential candidate, but let's not forget that women still hold less than 25% of all elected offices in the U.S.

So if you're in town and want to come by and check out the (free!) feminist fun, here are the details:

Date: Tuesday, October 23
Location: NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,
The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street
Time: 8:30 a.m. breakfast, program 9 – 10 a.m.

RSVP online or by phone at 212-981-5285

Co-Sponsors:

NARAL Pro-Choice New York
National Organization for Women (NOW) – NYC
Planned Parenthood of NYC