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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

 

OCT 27: W.R.R.A.P. LUNCHEON WITH ALEX SANGER & ANN STONE

ALEX SANGER, the Grandson of Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) and the author of Beyond Choice, will be honored at the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project lunch on Wednesday, October 27. The featured speaker is ANN STONE the chairwoman of Republicans for Choice—“Fighting for Women’s Rights in the Republican Party.”

11AM-2PM at the Luxe Summit Bel Air, 11461 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049.
Tickets $75, includes lunch and parking. To make a reservation, call (818) 501-4286.

Alex Sanger

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Alex Sanger, author of Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century and the grandson of Planned Parenthood Founder, Margaret Sanger, will be awarded “The Rose” Award by the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRAAP) at a one-time only luncheon at the Luxe Summit Bel Air hotel beginning at 11 AM on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. The afternoon’s featured speaker is Ann Stone, Chairwoman of Republicans for Choice. Among the many notable Host Committee members and Sponsors are Elayne Boosler, Gloria Feldt, Laura Kightlinger, Senator Sheila Kuehl, Gloria Steinem and Dina Merrill-Hartley. The luncheon event will feature a stunning Holiday Boutique and a Silent Auction, with 95% of all money raised going to help low-income women exercise the full range of their reproductive rights.

Alexander C. Sanger is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council, a member of the Advisory Council of the Princeton University Program in the Study of Woman and Gender, and serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. He was named “One of the 100 Most Influential People on the Planet” by Earth Times, and has lectured at United Nations Conferences throughout the world. He holds degrees from Princeton, NYU, and Columbia, and currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children. Ann Stone, who has been diligent in working for the removal of the anti-abortion platform within the Republican party and has fought for other women’s issues within the party, has founded four companies, served as goodwill ambassador to several countries, and has appeared on television programs including “Larry King Live,” “Nightline,” “The Today Show” and “Politically Incorrect.” She currently serves on the Board of the National Women’s History Museum and The Washington Center, and is an Arbiter for the Virginia Bar Association. In 2003, she was appointed to the President’s Executive Global Advisory Board of the European/American Women’s Council.

WRAAP raises money for low-income woman of all ages, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who are unable to pay for either emergency contraception or a safe and legal abortion. Its services are provided free of charge to clinics across the country, with all clinics State-of-the-Art and most of them members of the National Abortion Foundation (NAF) or the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP). Further information is available by calling 818-501-4286 or visiting www.wrrap.org.






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