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Planned Parenthood President Resigns

Friday January 28, 2005 4:01 AM

By CHAKA FERGUSON

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for the past eight years, has resigned, the abortion rights organization announced Thursday.

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A national search for a new president will begin immediately, Planned Parenthood chairwoman La Don Love said in a news release. Karen Pearl, chief executive of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, N.Y., will serve as interim president.

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Planned Parenthood said that under Feldt, it helped protect medical privacy, introduce abortion pills and emergency contraception and win passage of laws in 22 states requiring insurance plans to cover prescription contraceptives. Feldt also was one of the lead organizers of the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., which drew tens of thousands of abortion rights supporters.

During last year's presidential election, Planned Parenthood for the first time endorsed a candidate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., because of what Feldt called ``the Bush administration's war on choice.''

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