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National Abortion Federation
Washington, D.C.
Vicki Saporta, Executive Director
$60,000
The National Abortion Federation is a membership organization of approximately 300 abortion
providers, including Planned Parenthood affiliates, hospital-affiliated services, and independent clinics.
NAF has developed standards of performance for counseling and medical services, conducts
professional training workshops and seminars, and provides information on abortion technology to its
members and the public. Over the past decade, NAF's members have endured increasingly violent
attacks, as anti-choice activities have escalated from political pressure to outright terrorism. Random
violence; daily harassment at work and at home; rising expenses for security, legal, and insurance services;
even the specter of death at the hands of anti-choice zealots-these are the hardships facing
service providers today. One of NAF's responses to this situation was the creation of a Legal
Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse collaborates with the D.C. law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin
to help individual clinics find and use effective legal and community support remedies for clinic
harassment problems, and to advise NAF's membership on the best ways to avoid or minimize the difficulties
caused by extremists. Our grant is in support of the Legal Clearinghouse, as well as NAF's
public policy efforts related to clinic defense.
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association $60,000
Washington, D.C.
Judith DeSarno, President
NFPRHA is a membership organization of some 1,000 family planning service providers operating over
4,000 clinics in all 50 states. Funded under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, these clinics provide
not only contraceptive counseling and services, but also breast and cervical cancer screening, treatment
for sexually transmitted diseases, and AIDS testing for 4 million low-income women each year. NFPRHA
provides information about relevant public policy initiatives to its members and is actively engaged in
advocating for policies that will protect reproductive rights for all women. Since the November 1994 elections
that brought conservative majorities to both houses of Congress, family planning programs have
been repeatedly threatened. In addition, the Christian Coalition, which has great influence with the 104th
Congress, has specifically targeted Title X for elimination. Our grant will support NFPRHA's operations
and public policy efforts over the coming year as it works to preserve the nation's family planning program
and build an educated constituency which supports the right to choose.