"The 2002-2003 Annual Report for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) reveals that the nation's leading provider of abortions, performed 227,385 surgical abortions in 2002. In addition to these surgically aborted babies, the organization is assuredly responsible for the deaths of many more-having distributed 633,756 morning-after pills. Incredibly, this annual report also reveals that they collected $254.4 million from the federal government."

(Source:  Samuel E. Kastensmidt, "Taxpayers Fund Nation's Largest Abortion Provider," Center for Reclaiming America, January 12, 2004 ; http://www.reclaimamerica.org/Pages/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=1509 .)

"Like past abortion rights marches, this one included a large group of actors, including Ashley Judd, Kathleen Turner, Whoopi Goldberg and Cybill Shepherd, as well as other celebrities, like Ted Turner. A large delegation came from Capitol Hill, as well as from the seven sponsors.

In addition to Naral, the A.C.L.U. and the Feminist Majority, those sponsors were the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Organization for Women, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the Black Women's Health Imperative."

(Source:  Robin Toner, "Abortion-Rights Marchers Vow to Fight Another Bush Term," The New York Times, April 26, 2004; http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/politics/26RALL.html?th .)

Americans might well wonder just whom feminists are helping when they endorse casual divorce - as all too many have as part of their broader assault on the traditional family. It would not appear that they are helping many young women in high school. Indeed, high school counselor Barry Ham of the Academy School District in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has recently concluded that parental divorce actually hurts female high school students more than it hurts their male peers.

In parsing data collected for 265 high school seniors, Ham established that "those students from intact families outperform those students from divorced families across all categories." More specifically, in multi-variable statistical analysis Ham calculated that students from intact families maintained grade point averages (GPAs) 11% higher than those of peers from divorced families (p < .05). The lower grades probably reflect, at least in part, differences in attendance: "the high school seniors from divorced households missed almost 60% more class periods than did those from intact families." "The most surprising finding," Ham remarks, "was that these results were most pronounced for females." Ham's analyses indicate that "for both grades and attendance ... females were more greatly impacted negatively by divorce than were males."  Many of the young women now flunking out of high school could be forgiven for expressing something other than deep appreciation for the pro-divorce labors of the National Organization for Women.