AAP is grateful to a generous AAP supporter and outspoken advocate who put her money where her heart is.  Rather than refusing her economic incentive check, Mary Rizzo expressed to the President of the United States her passion and commitment to women's reproductive health and told him that she used her U.S. government check to help carry out the work that he so adamantly opposes. 

May 16, 2008

Dear President Bush:

 
This letter is to thank you for your recent tax refund. I thought you would like to know the use to which I put the $600 that I received. While I considered refusing the money altogether—after all what our country needs is not to encourage more reckless consumer spending as a quick fix to deep-seated economic problems that have multiple causes—I realized that the better solution was to donate the money to two non profit organizations that are fighting for issues I feel passionately about.

In your name, then, sir, I have donated money to the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Abortion Access Project.

 

“Role-playing is useful way to engage nursing student in reproductive content,” highlights Joyce Cappiello, Director of the ROE Consortium of Nursing. “Using what is called a “standardized patient,” basically an actor playing the role of a patient, students can hone appropriate responses to a patient’s unintended pregnancy in the classroom setting.” This model was the topic of a poster presentation created and presented by Joyce at the recent Drexel University Nursing Education Institute. Bringing together leaders in nursing education, the conference was an opportunity to engage nurse educators around innovative teaching strategies.

“The poster was of great interest to the attendees, many of whom have struggled with ways to structure a complex discussion of professional versus personal ethics in the context of abortion care and options counseling,” notes Joyce. Not only did the presentation garner much attention by fellow participants, but it received the Institute Award for Nursing Education. “Connecting audiences of nurse educators with innovative teaching strategies and quality resources on reproductive options education can make a critical difference for educating a cadre of nurses able to support women with quality information.”

To view the award-winning poster, click here.