Empowering Providers and Patiens as Advocates

Vicki
Vi
ki S
Saporta
t
President and CEO
National Abortion Federation
United States
www.prochoice.org
NAF is the professional
association of abortion providers
in North America.
www.prochoice.org
Who is the most credible spokesperson?
p
p
68%
Academic or expert
chnical expert in the company
66%
A person like yourself
65%
Regular
g
employee
p y
50%
NGO representative
50%
Financial or industry analyst
CEO
46%
38%
“If it’s a legitimate
rape, the
th ffemale
l b
body
d
has ways to try to shut
that whole thing
down.
down.”
-- August 19, 2012 interview on St. Louis
television station KTVI-TV
our article…for
article for the first time
time, helped me
nderstand why a woman might need a later
bortion Thanks for opening my eyes
bortion….Thanks
eyes.
-- Greg
G
from
f
Baltimore
B lti
II've
ve wished
wished, so many times
times, that I
I am fighting
fi h i
for
f
omen like me, to
ave the right to
cess abortion care
when we need to
yond 20 weeks.”
“With modern technology
and
a
d sc
science,
e ce, you ca
can'tt find
d
one instance...There is no
such exception
p
as life of
the mother, and as far as
health of the mother,,
same thing.”
-- October 18, 2012 debate on WTTW’s
“Chicago Tonight”
On the front line
Abortion provider
soldiers on in a
charged climate
“The most p
powerful thing
g yyou can
hear, and the only thing that ever
persuades any of us in our own
lives, is [when] you meet somebody
whose story contradicts the thing you
think you know
know. At that point
point, it’s
it s
possible to question what you
know, because the authenticity of
heir experience is real enough to do
it.”