2013 Courageous Voice Breakfast Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon's major annual fundraiser is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22nd in the Portland Art Museum's Kridel Grand Ballroom.

Following sold-out keynote addresses by Professor Anita Hill in 2011 and author/spy Valerie Plame Wilson in 2012, we are thrilled in 2013 to add Sandra Fluke to this stellar lineup of powerful women who speak truth in the face of hostility. This is how she was described in her nomination for TIME's Person of the Year 2012:

The daughter of a conservative Christian pastor, Sandra Fluke, 31, became a women's-rights activist in college and continued her advocacy as a law student at Georgetown. After being denied a chance to testify at a Republican-run House hearing on insurance coverage for birth control, Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut." Democrats and many Republicans reacted with outrage, and the left made Limbaugh's slur Exhibit A in what they called a GOP "war on women." Fluke, meanwhile, weathered the attention with poise and maturity and emerged as a political celebrity. Democrats gave her a national-convention speaking slot as part of their push to make reproductive rights a central issue in the 2012 presidential campaign — one that helped Barack Obama trounce Mitt Romney among single women on Election Day. The Courageous Voice Breakfast will also bestow the 3rd Annual Marilyn Epstein Champion Award to a longtime leader for our movement.
Please visit http://www.choiceadvocates.org/ for more on Planned Parenthood in Oregon, and this event.

This notice is provided by The Jefferson Center as a courtesy to our members and friends.