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ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project
Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project seeks to uphold the rights of individuals to decide freely, without governmental hindrance or coercion, whether or not to bear a child. The Reproductive Freedom Project strives to ensure that all in our society have access to sexuality education, contraception, abortion, prenatal care, and childbearing assistance.

American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change.

California Women's Law Center (CWLC)
Since its founding in 1989, the California Women's Law Center has served as a unique advocate in California, working in collaboration with others to address the comprehensive civil rights concerns of women and girls. The CWLC prides itself on forging novel approaches to the problems that confront women and girls, proposing unique strategies to implement those approaches and recasting issues in new terms. The CWLC is the first law center in California solely dedicated to addressing the comprehensive legal concerns of women and girls on issues of Sex Discrimination, Violence Against Women, Family Law, Child Care, and Women's Health and Reproductive Rights, because these issues and the relationships among them define the basic civil rights of women and girls.

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC)
Catholics for a Free Choice, an independent not-for-profit organization, is engaged in research, policy analysis, education, and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health. Working in the Catholic social justice tradition, CFFC is affiliated with Catholic Organizations for Renewal and the Women-Church Convergence, both based in the United States, and with the European Network/Church on the Move. This web site is presented in 3 languages: English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) is a non-profit legal and policy advocacy organization dedicated to promoting women's reproductive rights. CRLP's domestic and international programs engage in litigation, policy analysis, legal research, and public education seeking to achieve women's equality in society and ensure that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.

Contraception and Reproductive Health Website
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University maintains this large collection of documents about contraception and reproductive health.

Emergency Contraception Website
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University operates this site which is dedicted to providing information and news about emergency contraception in both Spanish and English. Once on this site, you can obtain a directory of clinics, answers to frequently asked questions and articles from medical journals.

Healtheon/WebMD
Healtheon | WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry. Healtheon/WebMD is using the Internet to facilitate a new system for the delivery of healthcare, resulting in a single, secure environment for all communications and transactions that will enable a more efficient and cost-effective healthcare system. With corporate headquarters in Atlanta and technology headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company was formed in November 1999 as a result of the merger of Healtheon Corp., WebMD Inc., MedE America, and Medcast.

National Abortion Federation
Founded in 1977, the National Abortion Federation is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. The organization's mission is to preserve and enhance the quality and accessibility of abortion services. Our members include non-profit clinics, private physician's offices, for-profit surgi-centers, feminist women's health centers, Planned Parenthood affiliates, and hospital-based clinics.

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)
Since 1977, the NARAL Foundation has worked to protect the freedom to choose and to reduce the number of abortions through research, public education, community outreach and leadership development and training.

National Network of Abortion Funds
The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is an affiliation of community-based abortion funds throughout the United States. We believe that:
The right to choose abortion is meaningless without access to abortion services.
Restrictions on abortion access and funding are discriminatory because they especially burden poor women, young women, women of color and rural women
Abortion is a component of basic healthcare, which is a right that should be guaranteed to all through an expanded Medicaid program or another universal national healthcare plan.
We must act now to support women who want abortions and cannot afford them. Our member funds provide direct financial assistance and support to these women.

National Organization of Women
With over 250,000 members, NOW is the largest feminist organization in the United States. Since NOW was founded in 1966, we have struggled to end the injustice and inequality women face daily.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
For 28 years, NFPRHA has worked to assure access to voluntary family planning and reproductive health care services and to support reproductive freedom for all. A national non-profit membership organization, NFPRHA represents virtually all of the domestic family planning field, including private non-profit clinics; state, county and local health departments; Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates; family planning councils and hospital-based clinics. NFPRHA members provide reproductive health care at over 4200 clinics nationwide, to more than four million low-income women each year. Centrally located in Washington, D.C., NFPRHA is at the forefront of the fight to maintain and to expand access to reproductive health care for women.

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH)
The mission of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) is to enable concerned physicians to take a more active and visible role in support of universal reproductive health. PRCH is committed to ensuring that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom of choice to make their own reproductive health decisions. A national not-for-profit organization, PRCH was founded in 1992; staffing followed in 1995.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Each year, Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide provide high quality, affordable reproductive health care and sexual health information to more than five million women, men and teens. Planned Parenthood health centers offer a wide range of reproductive and sexual health services.

Planned Parenthood - For Teens
"teenwire.com" provides sexuality and relationship information to teens. This trustworthy information is provided by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
The mission of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is to improve the quality of life by enabling all people voluntarily to exercise individual choice in their own fertility and reproductive health."

Pro-Choice Action Network (link broken)
The Pro-Choice Action Network was formed in 1986 to secure safe, fully funded, high quality abortion services for women. (Formerly known as the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics, our group changed its name in 1998.) Pro-CAN is the longest-established and largest pro-choice organization in BC. We have close working ties with the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), Canada's national pro-choice group.

Pro-Choice Connection
This web site provides honest, valuable information and helps support a woman's right to safe, legal and
accessible abortion. Find answers to questions about abortions, obtain post abortion support, or gather birth control information.

Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Since its inception, PEP has been committed to conducting research on a diverse population of pro-choice supporters. Through focus groups and a national poll, PEP's research on young women ages 16-25 is the most extensive ever conducted at one time on young women's attitudes toward choice.

ProChoice Resource Center Online, currently known as Abortion Access Project
The ProChoice Resource Center provides information and resources to pro-choice grassroots activists and supporters by answering questions, helping craft solutions to various organizing obstacles and challenges, and sharing proven and effective strategies for promoting reproductive freedom and other basic liberties.

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) is a national, nonprofit organization which affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living. Incorporated in 1964, SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.