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September 22-October 1, 2008
This week and next, PRCH is training doctors and medical students in the San Francisco area on the potential impact of Proposition 4 -- the Family Notification Act of 2008 -- for physicians and their adolescent patients. Prop. 4 is a dangerous attempt to take confidentiality away from teens and restrict their access to necessary medical treatment. Click here for a full list of Advocacy Trainings throughout California and to RSVP.

September 22, 2008
At the ARHP conference last week, PRCH member Justin Diedrich, MD, won the Preserving Core Values in Science Award along with Gail Sorrough, MLIS, and Gloria Won, MLIS, for exposing the blocking of “abortion” as a search term in the federally funded POPLINE database. Congratulations!

September 18, 2008
In a letter to the editor of the L.A. Times, LTI Fellow Radha Lewis, MD, called on Californians to vote against Prop. 4 and protect teen safety. Find out how you can get involved today!

September 17-20, 2008
Say hello to PRCH staff at ARHP! Stop by the PRCH table, between Registration A and the doorway to the Taft room, at the top of the hallway that runs alongside the Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West/South.

If you found out about PRCH at ARHP, welcome! Here are two ways you can get involved with PRCH: take action to help preserve women's access to abortion and read about the PRCH Leadership Training Institute.