Parenthood Of Maryland

Jane Hughes Murnaghan, a retired assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, died Friday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of cancer. She was 66.Services for Mrs. Murnaghan will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church, 3738 Butler Road, Glyndon.She retired in 1979 after working 16 years in the Department of Health Care Organization in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.In 1964, she and Dr. Paul Talalay published a book, "Drugs in Our Society."

Margaret Virginia Garman, a homemaker and church choir member, died April 24 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Oak Crest Village. The former Ruxton resident was 83. Born Margaret Virginia Pfeiffer in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton, she was a 1941 graduate of Eastern High School and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics and music from Hood College. For 27 years, Mrs.

After giving birth, a 19-year-old Baltimore resident headed to Planned Parenthood and got her first injection of the contraceptive Depo-Provera. One year later, she "likes Depo because I don't have time to remember to take the pill."This young mother is one of the many teens who are finding Depo-Provera a more convenient, more reliable method of birth control. In fact, family planning counselors say the reason teen pregnancy rates have dropped in both Baltimore and the nation is due, in part, to Depo-Provera.

Baltimore City: Politics Planned Parenthood invites candidates Planned Parenthood of Maryland is planning an evening with the 2006 gubernatorial candidates for governor from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mount Washington Conference Center in Baltimore. Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley have confirmed that they will attend. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has been invited, organizers said. Candidates will discuss their stances on issues such as reproductive rights, sexuality education and family planning.

Officials at Maryland's family planning clinics said yesterday that they will find ways to provide abortion counseling to women who want it, despite federal regulations that seek to "gag" them from doing so.James Guest, president of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, said the organization will first explore last-ditch legal and legislative options in an effort to block the regulations from taking effect. If that fails, the group will simply give up its $516,000 federal grant so that it can continue providing services without federal interference.

Dr. Margaret P. "Peg" Brian, a retired Baltimore obstetrician-gynecologist, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Sacramento, Calif. The longtime Riderwood resident was 98. A daughter of a businessman and an artist, Margaret Paxson was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1931. After graduating from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., in 1935, she earned her medical degree in 1939 from Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia.

James Guest, president of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, laments the amount of money that will be spent on a drive to defeat the state's new abortion law, once abortion opponents succeed in gathering enough signatures to place the law on the ballot in November 1992. In a time of scarce resources it is regrettable that each side of this debate will probably spend more than a million dollars to carry its case to the electorate.Yet a referendum can be worth the money, and especially so in this case.

25 Years Ago (Week of April 7-13, 1968):* Senator James Clark addressed the regular monthly meeting of the Ellicott City chapter of the American Association of University Women at Howard High School.The subject of his address was the proposed constitution for the state of Maryland.* Lisbon United Methodist Church announced a program of discussion groups for parents and teen-agers, designed to minimize the "generation gap."Topics were to include sex education, drug abuse and family relationships.

Maryland's two Democratic gubernatorial campaigns spelled out nearly identical stances on abortion last night at a political forum on reproductive health. Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Del. Anthony G. Brown - who spoke on behalf of Mayor Martin O'Malley - called themselves "pro-choice" and vowed to veto legislation that would erode the state's abortion law. "Reproductive rights aren't something that should be batted back and forth between politicians," Duncan said at the Planned Parenthood of Maryland event, held in Mount Washington.