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The Quickie: PPFA, PPAF Present Rep. Barbara Lee With the Reproductive Health Icon Award During CBC

For Immediate Release: Sept. 16, 2024


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Welcome to “The Quickie” — Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s daily tipsheet on the top health care & reproductive rights stories of the day. You can read “The Quickie'' online here.

In today’s Quickie: PPFA and PPAF present Rep. Barbara Lee with repro health award and GA’s abortion ban is causing preventable deaths.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND PRESENT REP. BARBARA LEE WITH THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ICON AWARD DURING CBC: She is an icon, she is a legend. We’re of course talking about Congresswoman Barbara Lee. This past weekend, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund honored Congresswoman Lee, who will retire from Congress at the end of this term, with the Reproductive Health Icon Award for her career of work to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities to enhance the health and well-being of underserved and marginalized communities. 

Congresswoman Lee is one of the first members of Congress to courageously share her abortion story on the House floor, cementing her legacy as one of the most unapologetic advocates for protecting access to abortion and reproductive health care. She was instrumental in the fight to end the discriminatory Hyde Amendment, is the co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, and so much more

(Pictured left to right: Sen. Cory Booker, Alexis McGill Johnson, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and Sen. Laphonza Butler)

PPFA and PPAF at CBC

Read more here.

 

GEORGIA DECLARED ITS FIRST PREVENTABLE DEATH AS RESULT FROM THE STATE’S ABORTION BAN: A new article from ProPublica details the devasting death of a mother in Georgia due to delayed emergency abortion care. ProPublica found that at least two women have died in the state after not being able to access legal abortions and emergency care.  In 2019, Dr. Melissa Kottke, an OB-GYN at Emory warned lawmakers during a hearing over the state’s ban that, “They [doctors] would feel the need to wait for a higher blood pressure, wait for a higher fever — really got to justify this one — bleed a little bit more.” 

Unfortunately, preventable deaths caused by abortion bans are nothing new. In many cases, patients have been turned away or have been forced to carry high-risk pregnancies. 

Read the full article from ProPublica.

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