Election Success!

After an exciting campaign season and near-record levels of voter turnout on Election Day, we've woken up to a pro-choice President in President-elect Barack Obama and a re-elected pro-choice, pro-family planning, pro-women’s health Governor Christine Gregoire.

Even though there is still work to be done, Americans can be confident that, in President-elect Barack Obama, we have a leader who respects women's rights and who will fight to protect women's health care. Both Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have consistently demonstrated their commitment to women's health care, including support for affordable birth control and commonsense, science-based sex education.

Up and down the ballot, pro-choice candidates swept the polls, winning key races that will help ensure that pro-choice, pro-women's health policies are put in place throughout the country.

Find out more election news in our Press Room.

Women's Equality Day

Women's Equality Day is Tuesday, August 26th. This day celebrates women’s right to vote. The passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26th, 1920 finally guaranteed women the right to vote. Join Planned Parenthood and volunteer your time so we can make sure this right is not squandered! We need your help to reach out to women voters and get them involved in the political process. In order to protect women’s access to basic health care, we need women’s voices to be heard loud and clear. There are lots of volunteer opportunities including: phone banking, canvassing, data entry and helping us staff information tables at summer events across the state.
For more information on any of these opportunities, contact us.

Join the push for Health Care Reform

The Healthy Washington Coalition, which is a large group of organizations working together on health care reform for our state, is holding a series of public meetings around the state to discuss what Washingtonians think are the most important issues in reforming health care. These meetings are a very important opportunity for us to speak up on family planning issues. "Health care reform" can sound intimidating - like something you'd have to really know a lot about in order to make intelligent contributions to the conversation. That's not true! "Health care reform" is just people talking about how to make good health care more available to more people. These meetings are specifically designed to be town hall-style meetings for the public, and your voices speaking up for the role of reproductive health in overall health care and coverage are crucial!

Three upcoming meetings are scheduled in Bellevue, Everett and Vancouver. Please let us know if you can attend a meeting - we would love to see you there!