Our top priority is the compassionate care that we provide. In the video, one of our staff members speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassion. This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for the staff member's tone and statements, as always, if there is any aspect of our work that can be strengthened, we want to know about it, and we take swift action to address it.

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It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

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This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

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I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.

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At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

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I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.

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I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

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I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked about. Folks in popular culture being willing to take on issues, I think that is such a key part of having a culture shift and an institutional shift.

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The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

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Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

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So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

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President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

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We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

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And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

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Leading Planned Parenthood over the last 12 years has been the honor of my lifetime. Together, we have made real progress in this country, expanding access to services and making reproductive rights a central priority of our nation's health care system, i'm deeply proud of the progress we've made for the millions of people Planned Parenthood health centers serve across the country each year.

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In this election, with the attacks on women's health and rights, more than ever before we don't need a friend, a solid vote, a statement, we need a fighter.

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Enough is enough, with our supporters, we're launching 'I Vote Planned Parenthood Action.' We'll organize and mobilize to elect lawmakers who are in our corner.

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We are thrilled to honor this select group of fearless journalists and activists for their always honest, brave, and accurate reporting on sexual and reproductive health, these are the stories that empower and educate — the stories of women, communities of color, members of the LGBT community — and it is incredibly important that these stories are told and amplified over the next year.

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Our doctors repeatedly say, 'This is not something that makes money for Planned Parenthood,'.

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