Foster Will Speak At Planned Parenthood Gala

Wed., Aug. 2, 1995

From Staff Reports

Dr. Henry Foster, President Clinton’s former nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, is scheduled to be in Spokane on Oct. 21 for a Planned Parenthood dinner.

The Tennessee obstetrician will be the key speaker at the Gala Dinner, a $75-per-plate fund-raiser, Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday.

Foster, an expert in teenage pregnancy, became a controversial figure after conservative Republicans and abortion opponents made an issue of abortions he’d performed.

The White House first indicated Foster performed one abortion, then revised that figure to about a dozen before acknowledging he performed 39 abortions over his four decades as a doctor.

In June, the GOP-dominated Senate doomed Foster’s nomination by refusing to vote on it.

Foster will attend a reception and dinner at Spokane’s Crescent Court Ballroom, a statement by Planned Parenthood of Spokane and Whitman counties said.

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