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As part of a special two-speaker examination of abortion issues sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleanor Raoul Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Emory University, will present "Life or Death: Who Decides?" on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:15 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the college's Kirner-Johnson auditorium.

Fox-Genovese is the author of numerous books including Feminism is Not the Story of My Life: How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women and Women and the Future of the Family. Among her many awards and distinctions are the 2003 National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Cardinal Wright Award from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. At Emory, Fox-Genovese teaches courses in comparative women's history; the antebellum South; cultural, literary and intellectual history.  She is the founder of Emory's Institute for Women's Studies.

Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), will present a lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel.  The event is also free and open to the public.

Feldt, who has been president of Planned Parenthood since 1996, is also president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the organization's political arm.  PPFA is the world's largest voluntary reproductive health care organization, with both domestic and international programs. As PPFA president, Feldt provides leadership to 122 Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide, whose nearly 850 health centers provide reproductive health and sexuality education services for nearly five million women, men, and teenagers each year. Feldt 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.

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