Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. She has written a number of bestselling books, including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power and Behind Every Choice Is a Story, and writes a blog, Heartfeldt. The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Womens Rights and How to Fight Back is written by Gloria Feldt and published by Bantam. As of 2014, she teaches courses on women and leadership at Arizona State University, serves on the boards of the Women’s Media Center and the Jewish Women’s Archive, and is president of Take the Lead, a mentoring and networking organization dedicated to ensuring women claim an equal share of leadership positions across all sectors. From 1996–2005 she served as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood and lobbied successfully for contraceptive coverage by insurance companies. By 1978 she was head of Planned Parenthood’s Northern Arizona Office, speaking out for reproductive rights and travelling with a bodyguard to avoid violent reprisals from pro-life advocates. In 1974 she finally earned her BA from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, the same year she joined Planned Parenthood. The book also traces Gloria Feldts personal journey from the dusty oil fields of West Texas to becoming a Head Start teacher and activist in the civil.
Feldt had her first child at age fifteen and became a mother of three by twenty. She is the author of The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back and Behind Every Choice Is a Story.Driven by her own experiences as a teenage mother, Gloria Feldt became an advocate for women’s rights and reproductive choice, leading Planned Parenthood for a decade. Even Barack Obamas presidency cannot soon change the reality that the lower federal courts are now dominated by anti- choice judges, and the Supreme Court. She was featured in most major media, including The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Today show, and Good Morning America. Among other honors, she was named a 2003 Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine and one of the top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers, by Vanity Fair magazine. Previously, she was a Planned Parenthood affiliate chief executive in West Texas and in Arizona, Head Start teacher, and activist in the civil rights movement. Her innovative thinking and courageous leadership were the driving forces behind contraceptive equity legislation passed in many states and increased public awareness of the need for accessible emergency contraception.
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