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Get the facts straight

Before you do anything, make sure you have the facts straight.  There have been inaccuracies in the press and Internet articles.

Here's the corporate press release from Curves (pdf) that clarifies exactly where Gary Heavin's donations are going.

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Franchise owners, if you'd like a postcard to print up and distribute, here's a pdf file you can use.  Curvers for Choice postcard


She said it first:

"I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard."
-- Hillary Rodham Clinton


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  • Information from Curves

    • Corporate Press Release from Curves
      issued 4/30/04 (pdf)
    • Member Letter from Curves San Francisco Owners
      (pdf) updated 5/7/04
  • Media Coverage

    Careful! Some of these articles contain inaccuracies. Check the home page for the latest info.
    • Boston Globe: Sweating with the Enemy
      6/19/05
    • Sunday Times of Ireland coverage (first international story on this issue)
      April 10, 2005
    • From the Seattle Sun: continued fallout in the Seattle area
      December 2004
    • From the Seattle Star: Local clubs lose members..
      11/17/04
    • From New York Daily News: Abortion Roils Gyms 
      11/1/04
    • From The Pitch, Kansas City's Independent Weekly: Kingdom of Heavin
      8/26/04
    • East Bay Express: Curves founder's politics a factor in Berkeley zoning board's decisionmaking
      8/18/04
    • From the Waco Tribune-Herald: Politics, Business Can Prove Volatile Mix 
      7/25/04
    • From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Columnist Susan Paynter
      6/30/04
    • From Women's Information Network
      June 2004 monthly newsletter
    • Southwest Minneapolis Journal: Politics, religion throw Curves a curve
      6/10/04
    • NOW news item
      6/3/04
    • Chicago Free Press Opinion: Throwing a Curve
      week of June 1, republished elsewhere many places since
    • Women's eNews report
      5/24/04
    • Fallout in Topanga (Santa Monica CA)
      5/20/04
    • Salon.com: Curve Ball
      5/19/04 (requires ad viewing for day pass or subscription)
    • Santa Cruz Editorial: Free Speech Gets a Workout
      5/18/04
    • Fallout in Santa Cruz
      5/15/04
    • San Francisco Chronicle's full correction
      5/13/04
    • Curves International Profile from Waco Tribune-Herald
      5/2/04
    • Ruth Rosen column from San Francisco Chronicle
      4/29/04
    • Urban Legends Reference Page
    • Jon Carroll column in San Francisco Chronicle
      4/20/04
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      The federal government's $900 million, 5-year effort to push abstinence-only education results in lies and distortions to scare kids out of sex, says a report from California Congressman Henry Waxman. 12/2/04
    • From the Waco Tribune Herald: Gary Heavin funds adoption agency
      7/22/04
    • The REAL militant anti-abortion groups
      Read Planned Parenthood's profiles of 14 extremist anti-abortion groups
    • Case study: how anti-choice efforts in Texas can be turned around
      Article from Z Mag: "The Darling of Anti-Choice"
    • Abortion Wars
      Newsweek article that talks about, among other things, the battle over Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood in Waco Texas
    • Bush's Sex Fantasy: how the White House is pushing abstinence education
      From Salon, 2/24/04
    • Gary Heavin's latest editorial from Waco Tribune
      On the Girl Scouts/Planned Parenthood controversy in Waco (and an unsuccessful boycott of Girl Scout cookies!)
    • More about Chris Danze & the Austin Planned Parenthood, from the Austin Chronicle
      Women Dig In, 12/5/03
  • Curves Message Boards

    • Curves Community on MSN
      Public online discussion for members or those considering it; private area for owners. Online registration required to post.
  • Christian Media Coverage of Gary Heavin

    • Article from Today's Christian
      Jan/Feb 04
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