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...candidate who seeks our vote should get it unless he or she promises to protect our rights," said Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood...
Some believe that the First Amendment may be endangered as well. Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which operates nearly 900 clinics in 49 states, called the decision to halt abortion counseling "an unimaginable blow to free speech." From Capitol Hill came rumblings that liberty of expression had been, as Democratic Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon put it, "thrown into the trash can." But the toughest counterpunch was landed by Blackmun, who charged the court with "viewpoint- based suppression of speech...
...health-care system: one that provides affluent women with the full range of options and offers poor women either skewed information or a range of services severely constrained by funding limitations. "A double standard of medical care is now not only legal," argues Sanger, "but mandatory in this country." Wattleton asserts that the congressional intent behind Title X was to "help needy women, not victimize them by subjecting them to second-class health care...
Quiet defiance. Like father, like daughter. Self-possessed, imperturbable, smoothly articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back of a white limousine cruising along Route 20 toward Chicago. Arredondo reached for Wattleton's note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic...
PROFILE: Faye Wattleton...