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Mid Summer Art Show Supports Essential Reproductive and Sexual Health Services
on the East End
Photos by: Richard Lewin |
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PPHP
President/CEO
Reina
Schiffrin
and host
Michael
Gordon |
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Loraine
Boyle and
Blythe
Danner |
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Barry
Sonnenfeld
and Susan
Ringo |
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(Bridgehampton,
NY) - Over
200 guests
supported
Planned
Parenthood
Hudson
Peconic’s (PPHP)
essential
reproductive
and sexual
health
services and
education
and advocacy
programs on
the East End
on Saturday,
July 31.
The event,
now in its
23rd
year, was
held at the
Bridgehampton
home of
Michael and
Andrea
Gordon,
founder of
Bumble and
bumble.
Actress and
long-time
Planned
Parenthood
supporter
Blythe
Danner,
Men in Black
producer
Barry
Sonnenfeld,
Loraine
Boyle, April
Gornik, and
Dallas Ernst
were among
the guests.
We are
enormously
grateful to
the eleven
prominent
East End
galleries
which sold
artwork, a
generous
portion of
which
benefited
PPHP:
Elaine
Benson
Gallery,
Boltax
Gallery,
Mark Borghi
Fine Arts,
The Drawing
Room, Eric
Firestone
Gallery,
Kathryn
Merkel Fine
Arts,
Salomon
Contemporary
Warehouse,
Sara
Nightingale
Gallery,
Silas Marder
Gallery,
Tripoli
Galleries,
and Jason
Lamberth
Furniture
and
Interiors.
Planned
Parenthood’s
six health
centers in
Suffolk,
including
Amagansett,
fill a vital
need for
working
class women
and men of
the East End
communities.
90% of
PPHP’s
services are
preventative,
including
cervical and
breast
cancer
screenings,
GYN wellness
exams,
testing and
counseling
for sexually
transmitted
infections,
and prenatal
care. For
over 77
years, PPHP
has provided
affordable,
confidential,
and
compassionate
care to
women, men,
and teens.
PPHP works
to protect
the right to
reproductive
freedom, and
offers
education
and training
programs to
improve
parent/child
communication,
peer-to-peer
education,
and a
variety of
other
community
resources.
Honorary
Chairpersons
for the
event
included
Iris &
Richard
Abrons,
Shahara
Ahmad-Llewellyn,
Antonia
Bellanca,
Loraine
Boyle, Ellen
Chesler &
Matthew
Mallow,
Honorable
Janet
DiFiore &
Dennis
Glazer,
Amanda &
Glenn
Fuhrman, Ina
& Jeffrey
Garten,
April Gornik
& Eric
Fischl,
Susan U.
Halpern,
Caroline
Hirsch &
Andrew Fox,
Bryan Hunt,
Tony Ingrao
& Randy
Kemper,
Ellen Kern,
Delphine &
Reed Krakoff,
Dominique
Levy &
Dorothy
Berwin,
Dorothy
Lichtenstein,
Isaac
Mizrahi,
Scott O’Neil
& Neil
Kraft, Sandy
& Steve
Perlbinder,
Cecile
Richards,
Susan Ringo
& Barry
Sonnenfeld,
Toni Ross,
Patsy & Jeff
Tarr,
Kathleen
Turner,
Edwina von
Gal, Nancy &
Michael
Weber, and
Jane Wenner.
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Planned
Parenthood
Hudson
Peconic, Inc
(PPHP) is
the 20th
largest
affiliate of
Planned
Parenthood
Federation
of America,
and operates
12 medical
centers in
Suffolk,
Westchester,
Rockland,
and Putnam
Counties.
In 2009,
PPHP
provided
services to
over 35,000
patients in
over 70,000
visits. We
conducted
nearly 1,600
education
programs
reaching
nearly
32,000 youth
and adults,
and
mobilized
approximately
10,000
advocates to
protect
reproductive
health care
rights.
PPHP has
served the
community
for 77
years, and
is dedicated
to educating
and
empowering
individuals
to make
responsible
choices
regarding
their
sexuality
and sexual
health.
Planned
Parenthood
has done
more to
reduce the
incidence of
abortion and
unintended
pregnancy
than any
other health
care
provider or
advocacy
group. PPHP
is
headquartered
in Hawthorne
NY. For more
information
about PPHP
services and
programs,
visit
www.pphp.org.
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