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August 24, 2010

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) mourns the death of Seymour L. Romney, MD, our founder and chair of our first board of directors, whose vision, energy, intelligence, leadership, and compassion gave pro-choice physicians in this country a voice.

Dr. Romney became an obstetrician/gynecologist in the late 1940s, and he was horrified by the illness and injury caused by botched illegal abortions. He advocated openly for the legalization of abortion in New York State. In the early 1990s, Dr. Romney and several colleagues recognized the need for physicians to band together to protect access to services and counter the anti-choice violence that had become commonplace.

Dr. Romney built PRCH for physicians “to advocate and educate on reproductive health issues as part of a professional, public health responsibility, regardless of their medical specialty.” He was the quintessential PRCH enthusiast—without the donations he gathered, the doctors he recruited, and the grants he secured, this organization would not exist. We will miss him dearly.

Dr. Romney's family has suggested PRCH as one of the charities to receive donations in his name. Click here to donate in his memory.

August 31, 2010

Board member and Leadership Training Academy alumna Margaret Baylson, MD, spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer about IUDs. More U.S. women are using these long acting contraceptives, and more doctors are being trained to provide them.

August 24, 2010

Five physicians and a medical student have joined our board of directors. Anna Altshuler, MD, MPH, and Fredrik Broekhuizen, MD, are obstetrician/gynecologists; Stephanie Kusko Cramer, MD, is an ophthalmologist; Michelle Forcier, MD, MPH, is an adolescent medicine specialist; and Patricia Glowa, MD, is a family physician. Darcy Broughton is a fourth-year medical student at Brown University. Read more about them and our new board chair, Douglas Laube, MD, MEd.

August 24, 2010

We're hitting the road to raise money for PRCH! This September and October, PRCH physicians and supporters around the country will run races on PRCH's behalf—join us!

Dr. Anne Davis, our medical director, will be leading a race in Central Park. So far we also have runs planned for Columbus (Ohio), Houston, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Learn more about our races.

Not a runner? You can walk, bike, swim, hike—anything that will bring people together who value reproductive health. Email development@prch.org with your location and the activity you prefer.