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This highly reliable method brought a new sense of sexual freedom to men and women. By 1970, FPA clinics were offering advice and treatment, without restriction. In 1974, FPA handed their network of over 1,000 clinics to the NHS when contraception became free for all. Family planning is still part of the health service. [10]
American Family Planning, formerly known as The Ladies Center and as Community Healthcare Center, was a clinic in Pensacola, Florida, providing abortions and other women's healthcare services. It is notable as the site of a number of acts of anti-abortion violence .
Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 H.R. 3471: November 11, 2013 Judy Chu (D-CA) 132 Died in committee. S. 1696: November 11, 2013 Richard Blumenthal(D-CT) 35 Died in committee. 114th Congress: Women's Health Protection Act of 2015 H.R. 448: January 21, 2015 Judy Chu (D-CA) 146 Died in committee. S. 217: January 21, 2015 Richard Blumenthal(D ...
The practice, which affects 100–140 million women and girls across the world, violates their right to health and bodily integrity. In 2007, UNFPA in partnership with UNICEF , launched a $44 million program to reduce the practice by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end it within a generation.
Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc., 512 U.S. 753 (1994), is a United States Supreme Court case where Petitioners challenged the constitutionality of an injunction entered by a Florida state court which prohibits antiabortion protesters from demonstrating in certain places, and in various ways outside of a health clinic that performs abortions.
Family Planning Association, a British sexual health charity; The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong; Flygprestanda, a Swedish aviation company; Fort Abbas railway station, in Pakistan; Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960), American columnist and poet who used F.P.A. as a nom-de-plume; Facility Planning Area, sewer planning in the United States
The Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centres originated in Los Angeles, and subsequent member clinics opened throughout California, Tallahassee, Florida, Atlanta, and Georgia. Women's health movement historian Sandra Morgen notes, "Until the National Black Women's Health Project... in the 1980s, the FFWHC was the only multiple-site group ...
Governor Lawton Chiles lobbied the Florida Legislature to statutorily create the Florida Commission on the Status of Women after he took office in 1991. The leading sponsor in the House of Representatives for CS/CS/HB 109 was Representative Elaine Gordon, while Senator Carrie Meek sponsored the companion bill, SB 1324.