Rounds, Colleagues: Stop Illegal PPP Loans to Planned Parenthood PIERRE U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and a group of senators in a letter urging U.S. Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza to prevent Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving illegal loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as they did last…
Donya Nasser (Trustee member of the committee)
An MA volunteer, Donya Nasser has been Senior Manager, Public Engagement and Policy at the Center for the Developing Adolescent since 2019. She has been a Global Trustee on the Governing Council for IPPF since 2017; a Board Director for IPPF Western Hemisphere Region since 2017; and a Board Director for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Action Fund (PPAF) since 2015.
She has also been the Director of Strategic Partnerships on the Youth Working Group of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO since 2017 and a Member of the Youth Power Panel at Restless Development in Washington DC since 2019. Amongst the skills required for the Board of Trustees, Donya can point to knowledge of SRHR leadership; experience of advocacy and working with government; and fundraising and resource mobilization. She is from North America, currently located in the USA. She also has lived in the UK for a year and Iran for just under a year.
ADF facing off against abortion groups in NC case
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 |
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com)
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Abortion advocates are asking a North Carolina court to overturn abortion regulations in the state but an attorney fighting the groups says The Tar Heel State is protecting women, not just regulating abortion.
The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights are representing abortion providers and activists in the state who oppose state laws that, for example, prohibit telemedicine abortions; require a 72-hour informed-consent period; and regulate abortion clinic safety codes.
Attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on behalf of the state’s Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
Global Abortions Surpass 1.1 Million in First Ten Days of New Year
10 Jan 2021
More than 1.1 million abortions have already taken place worldwide in the first ten days of 2021, according to statistics provided by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
Using W.H.O. data, a website called Worldometer keeps a running tally of data related to everything from demographics to economics, and also provides a continuously updated total for abortions performed in the calendar year. As of this writing, the number of abortions for 2021 stood at 1,113,770.
According to W.H.O., there are an estimated annual 40-50 million abortions in the world, which corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions performed each day.