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Planned Parenthood Consulted on Colorado’s State Boycott of Alabama

posted onMay 24, 2019
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Article snippet: 9NEWS obtained internal email records of correspondence between the Secretary of State’s Office and members of the media in the wake of the Alabama boycott news release from Griswold’s office. The email records included communication with Planned Parenthood executives. “Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office asked Planned Parenthood to look over a news release announcing restricted travel to Alabama after it passed a strict abortion ban,” reported 9NEWS.com. The report continued: In an email dated May 16 at 12:24 p.m., Woods wrote Phillips and Teter: Phillips responded at 12:27 p.m. with the following: According to the report, Phillips made two edits to the press release. First, she suggested removing the phrase “Right to Choose” from the headline, replacing it with “Rights to Reproductive Health Care.” “We don’t recommend using right to choose/pro-life/pro-choice language anymore,”Phillips advised,“all polling indicates it is further polarizing and turns folks off.” Secondly, Phillips asked if a sentence that read, “This year, the organization is hosting a training in Denver, which the Secretary of State looks forward to and plans to attend,” was necessary to include. “I had to read it 3-4 times and I am not sure it is adding much to the information media need to know,” Phillips wrote. Griswold then issued the final press release in which she called for the boycott of Alabama. “In Response to New Law in Alabama Limiting Women’s Civil Rights and Right... Link to the full article to read more

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