Stand with Planned Parenthood as we urge our elected officials to protect the health and safety of women and families.  Women and men need access to vital family planning services like STI testing, breast and cervical cancer screening, and birth control in order to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.  Teens need medically-accurate, age-appropriate information so they can make informed decisions. 

In 1970, New York was one of the first states in the nation to permit safe and legal abortion. The law was a groundbreaking step in protecting women's health and reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. Over the past three and a half decades, however, much has changed in law and medical practice and New York's law is out of date and in need of reform.

New York law does not contain a health exception, or even any affirmative guarantee protecting women's rights to make private reproductive health care decisions. We rely on the federal constitution to guarantee those rights, leaving us vulnerable to further erosion by the Supreme Court. New York State must continue to protect and respect women's health and the right to make private reproductive health care decisions, no matter what happens in the Supreme Court.

Stand with us. Speak out. Please sign this petition and join us in telling state legislators that WOMEN'S HEALTH MATTERS!  An email will be sent to your representatives declaring your support.