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*Reverend [[Ignacio Castuera]], PPFA national chaplain
 
*Reverend [[Ignacio Castuera]], PPFA national chaplain
 
*Reverend [[Karen H. Seneca]], clergy project manager
 
*Reverend [[Karen H. Seneca]], clergy project manager
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===Visioning Steering Committee===
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In fall 1998, the board of Planned Parenthood approved a visioning project for the organization. The title for the vision is "Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025." Of the vision the organization stated,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061109100329/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/-planned-parenthood-vision-for-2025-.htm Planned Parenthood: ''Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025''] (accessed on Nov. 9, 2006 via the WayBack Machine)</ref>
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:''"In 1999, recognizing its impact on the century just ending, Planned Parenthood embarked on a two-year visioning journey to contemplate, deliberate, and define how our organization might have an equally significant impact on the 21st Century."''
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The following were members of the vision steering committee:<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061109202240/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/vision-chronology-7453.htm Planned Parenthood: ''Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025 - Chronology''] (accessed on Nov. 9, 2006 via the WayBack Machine)</ref>
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*[[Esperanza Garcia Walters]]
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*[[Cindy Ashley]]
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*[[Don Avant]]
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*Rev. [[Mark Bigelow]]
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*[[Audrey Bracey Deegan]]
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*[[Heather Saunders Estes]]
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*[[Gloria Feldt]]
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*[[Paula M. Gianino]]
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*[[Loan T. Huynh]]
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*[[Miriam Inocencio]]
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*[[Paula A. Johnson]], MD
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*[[Randall Doubet King]]
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*[[Douglas F. Schofield]]
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*[[Mary Shallenberger]]
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*[[Ginger Yrun]]
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*[[Watts Wacker]]
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'''Staff:'''
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*[[Bob Blomberg]]
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*[[Norah Holmgren]]
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*[[Jim LeFevre]]
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'''Consultants:'''
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*[[Tom Conger]]
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*[[Douglas Gould]]
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*[[Gio Gutierrez]]
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*[[Ryan Mathews]]
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*[[Jonathan Peck]]
  
 
==Affiliates==
 
==Affiliates==

Revision as of 03:34, 16 February 2013

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), commonly referred to as "Planned Parenthood" is the U.S. affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). It is the largest abortion business in the United States of America. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. (PPAF) which serves as Planned Parenthood's activist arm, focuses on lobbying for less regulation on abortion, and on educating children and youth with its message.

Personnel

National Spokespersons

As at March 5, 2012, the following served as spokespersons for the organization:[1]

Clergy Advisory Board

As at October 2007, the following served on the Clergy Advisory Board for PPFA:[2]

Office of Special Projects

As at October 2007, the following worked for the Planned Parenthood® Federation of America Office of Special Projects, based in NYC:[2]

Visioning Steering Committee

In fall 1998, the board of Planned Parenthood approved a visioning project for the organization. The title for the vision is "Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025." Of the vision the organization stated,[3]

"In 1999, recognizing its impact on the century just ending, Planned Parenthood embarked on a two-year visioning journey to contemplate, deliberate, and define how our organization might have an equally significant impact on the 21st Century."

The following were members of the vision steering committee:[4]

Staff:

Consultants:

Affiliates

Arizona

California:

Indiana

New York

Texas:

Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine:

Deaths

Edrica Goode

This 21-year-old aspiring lawyer went to a Planned Parenthood in Riverside, California, on January 31, 2007, for a second-trimester abortion. Despite clear signs of infection, a nurse practitioner inserted laminaria and sent her home.[5]

Diana Lopez

Diana Lopez, age 25, was 19 weeks pregnant when she went to a Planned Parenthood for an abortion on February 28, 2002. Before the day was over, Diana had bled to death.[6]

Holly Patterson

Holly Patterson, age 18, died September 17, 2003, from sepsis caused by a fetus incompletely expelled in a chemical abortion. Holly got the drugs for the fatal abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Hayward, California, on September 10.[7]

Vivian Tran

Vivian was 22 years old, and died December 29, 2003, six days into the abortion process. She'd been given abortion drugs on December 23 at the Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood facility.[8]

Nichole Williams

Twenty-two-year-old Nicole was the third patient known to have died of abortion complications under the dubious care of Dr. Robert Crist. The others were Latachie Veal and Diane Boyd. Nichole submitted to an abortion at a National Abortion Federation member facility operated by Planned Parenthood.[9]

References

  1. PP: National Spokespersons (accessed on March 5, 2012)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Planned Parenthood Action Fund: Clergy Voices, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Fall 2007
  3. Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025 (accessed on Nov. 9, 2006 via the WayBack Machine)
  4. Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood Vision for 2025 - Chronology (accessed on Nov. 9, 2006 via the WayBack Machine)
  5. RealChoice web site: Edrica Goode, Planned Parenthood Death (accessed on 13 March 2012)
  6. RealChoice web site: Diana Lopez, Safe and Legal Abortion Death (accessed on 13 March 2012)
  7. RealChoice web site: Holly Paterson, Medical Abortion Death (accessed on 13 March 2012)
  8. RealChoice web site: Vivian Tran, Medical Abortion Death (accessed on 13 March 2012)
  9. RealChoice web site: Nichole Williams, Abortion Death (accessed on 13 March 2012)