Maria Peeples

Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Young Leaders Advisory Council

Maria Peeples, 18, of Appleton, is a member of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Young Leaders Advisory Council. Maria has traveled to the Wisconsin State Capitol, Washington DC and Mississippi and to fight for comprehensive sex education, women’s health care and LGBT equality. In the Fall, she begins college at the University of San Francisco.

Reproductive Freedom is My Fight, Too, and I’m Taking it to the Voting Booth

Maria Peeples

The overwhelming majority of my generation rejects the Republican agenda. Four in five of us support expanded access to birth control for women who can’t afford it, and a solid two-thirds of us support LGBT marriage equality and the availability of abortion care, according to a new national poll of the millennial generation by the Public Religion Research Institute.  I am taking that to the polls in 2012.