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On April 10, 2009 EMMA VIRGINIA JACOBS (nee Heiry), devoted mother of Michele Hughes and her husband Mike Pretl, Barbara Hall and Joseph Jacobs and his wife Darlene, dear sister of Norma Douglas. Also survived by five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. All services and Interment are private. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Habitat For Humanity or Planned Parenthood.

Women's health-care providers and local law enforcement representatives came to Fort Meade yesterday for bomb-threat and security-awareness training from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms."

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.

Anti-abortion activists have stepped up their Internet attack on doctors and women's clinics, this time with Maryland as their first target.Under a heading that simulates dripping blood, creators of "The Nuremberg Trials" Web site list 27 "Alleged Maryland Abortionists," with addresses, telephone numbers, names of family members and in most cases a photograph.Visitors to the Web site can click on a button labeled "submit evidence" to type in additional personal information about the doctors.

In one of the largest renewal efforts in Baltimore in more than two decades, the city's economic development agency is seeking permission to condemn nearly 100 buildings in the rundown and depressed Howard Street-Park Avenue shopping district.Apartments, offices and other commercial uses are planned. While no acquisition or demolition is yet under way, development officials want to control the sites for a future plan that would dovetail with reconstruction under way at the University of Maryland, the Hippodrome Theatre and Charles Center.

A man allegedly stabbed and killed his brother in their Pen Lucy home yesterday during an argument about the victim's girlfriend, police said.Detective Bill Ritz said the victim was arguing that his girlfriend was not being warmly received at the house in the 500 block of E. 43rd St. when he was stabbed once in the chest with a butcher knife about 11: 20 a.m. He died about 12: 10 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ritz said.After the stabbing, the attacker jumped from a second-story window, suffered leg and back injuries and was arrested at the scene, Ritz said.

The new leader of Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc. yesterday decried a lack of national revulsion against abortion clinic-related murders in the United States and Canada."

Planned Parenthood clinics will soon make nonsurgical abortions available to 3,000 women, including some in Maryland, through a nationwide trial that will use two drugs widely employed to battle cancer and prevent ulcers.The trial will begin by fall in some areas. Planned Parenthood of Maryland plans to start offering the service shortly after the New Year at its Howard Street headquarters and, possibly, at some of its six satellite centers."We don't know what the demand will be because it's new, but what's crucial is that this is a new choice for women," said Sana F. Shtasel, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Maryland.

Annette Lieberman, a pioneering publicist for Planned Parenthood in the days when Baltimore papers wouldn't print the phrase "birth control," died of a heart attack Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Mrs. Lieberman, a cancer patient for the past five years, was 76."She was a type-A, double-plus personality, always going, on the phone constantly," said her son Reform Rabbi Elias Lieberman of Falmouth, Mass. "She had reserves of energy that I don't have a clue where they came from."During her long years in the public eye, "Netsie" Lieberman was TTC president of the Central Scholarship Bureau, organized video archives of Holocaust remembrances, was development officer for the Park School and did public relations for local Jewish groups.

Despite Planned Parenthood of Maryland's protest that it contains factual inaccuracies, WJZ-TV (Channel 13) will air "Sex, Lies and the Truth," a program produced by a conservative religious group to promote teen-age sexual abstinence."

Shirley E. Handelsman, a long-time Planned Parenthood advocate and consumer affairs activist, died of respiratory failure June 18 at Roland Park Place. She was 91. Shirley Esther Silverberg, the daughter of a movie theater owner, was born in Greenville, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where she spent her early years. When she was a teenager, her family moved to Baltimore after her father took over ownership of the Park Theate in the 1100 block of N. Broadway. Growing up, Mrs. Handelsman and her sister and brother spent a lot of time watching movies.

On April 10, 2009 EMMA VIRGINIA JACOBS (nee Heiry), devoted mother of Michele Hughes and her husband Mike Pretl, Barbara Hall and Joseph Jacobs and his wife Darlene, dear sister of Norma Douglas. Also survived by five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. All services and Interment are private. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Habitat For Humanity or Planned Parenthood.

Bay bridge driver impaired, imprudent In the article "No criminal charges in fatal Bay Bridge accident" (Dec. 19), Queen Anne's County State's Attorney Frank M. Kratovil Jr. is quoted as saying that Candy Lynn Baldwin's actions in causing the accident in August do not fall within the "gross negligence" requirement for manslaughter. Ms. Baldwin was sleep-deprived and had been drinking prior to the accident that took John Robert Short's life. Obviously her judgment and driving skills were impaired.

FREDERICK - Six weeks after Bruce E. Ivins killed himself, the cremated remains of Ivins, the Army scientist and anthrax suspect, are stored at a funeral home here, awaiting the outcome of an unusual probate court proceeding. In a will he wrote last year, a few months before the FBI focused the anthrax letters investigation on him, Ivins wrote of his wish to be cremated and have his ashes scattered. But fearing that his wife, Diane, and their two children might not honor the request, he came up with a novel way to enforce his demand: threatening to make a bequest to an organization he knew his wife opposed, Planned Parenthood.

Suddenly on April 4, 2006, BETTYKLINEFELTER THOMPSON, age 98, wife of the late Donald Thompson. Survived by three children Peter Thompson, David Thompson and Amanda Thompson Mc Greevy. She is also survived by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Interment will be at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to Planned Parenthood of Maryland or Doctors Without Borders.

Carl E. Speckman, whose convictions led him to fight in the Korean War and also to direct Planned Parenthood of Maryland, died Wednesday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Sparks resident had lung and adrenal cancer. He was 77. Mr. Speckman was born in Kansas City, Mo. After graduating from high school, he joined the Army in 1945. He briefly attended West Point but decided the school wasn't for him and went on, instead, to serve overseas. Later, as a member of the Army Reserve, he fought in the Korean War and retired as a lieutenant in 1953.

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.

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.

MY COLLEGE friends and I found out through the grapevine about a doctor in town who would prescribe birth control pills. One after another, we climbed the stairs to his dusty and dimly lit second-floor office and endured a humiliating pelvic exam in exchange for a prescription for a packet of pills. It was 1970, and it was illegal. We were unmarried, and unmarried women could not legally receive birth control information or products until 1972. We were just 18 or 19 years old, and teenagers could not legally receive birth control information or products until 1977.

A generous, big-hearted mother in post-World War II England spends her days cleaning people's homes and her evenings at home with her mechanic husband and two grown children. During her spare time, the title character of Vera Drake - the new film by Britain's kitchen-sink realist Mike Leigh - helps out women in trouble. She performs abortions, which, in 1950, are criminal offenses. Vera takes no money. She never speaks the word aloud. Her family has no inkling that mum engages in this practice.