{"id":395596,"date":"2026-04-16T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:46:08","slug":"planned-parenthood-honors-pink-at-annual-spring-into-action-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395596\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood Honors Pink at Annual ‘Spring Into Action’ Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPlanned Parenthood of Greater New York hosted its annual spring gala<\/a> on Wednesday evening, this year honoring singer Pink with the Catalyst of Change Award for her advocacy for reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event, called the Spring Into Action gala, was once again held at Cipriani South Street, drawing guests like Natasha Lyonne<\/a>, Iris Apatow<\/a>, Patricia Arquette, Hannah Bronfman, Helena Christensen, Tommy Dorfman, Marilyn Minter, Planned Parenthood Federation of America president and chief executive officer Alexis McGill Johnson, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, Laurie Simmons, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York president and CEO Wendy Stark and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s always been an incredible warrior for this autonomy,\u201d McGill Johnson said of Pink. \u201cShe is fierce. She is fire. She brings all of that. So I\u2019m so glad that we get to honor her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Natasha<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNatasha Lyonne<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\tPink was the color of the night, as attendees took advantage of the nearly 90-degree day in New York to finally break out summery dresses. Lyonne kept her shades on as she rolled into the step-and-repeat room, where VIP guests had gathered ahead of the night\u2019s programming. Just outside, a table was arranged with hats that said \u201cwitch\u201d and \u201cautonomy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlanned Parenthood is both a crucial resource and a safe space for young people and all people, frankly,\u201d Lyonne told the room early in the night. \u201cAnd since you are all here tonight, you\u2019re well aware of the fight on our hands. This current administration is doing everything they can to shut down our health centers across the country. Anti-abortion hospital systems are buying up independent clinics and banning abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s why in this very difficult time, PPGNY chooses to act in alignment with its values,\u201d she said. \u201cThey offer sliding scale services. They help enroll eligible patients with insurance plans and they provide community-based programming to tackle additional hurdles, things like language and accessibility and general mistrust in the healthcare system. It\u2019s important work and it is the work that PPGNY can only do thanks to the people in this room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Tommy<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTommy Dorfman<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland\/WWD<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s undeserved, but it\u2019s awesome,\u201d Pink said in her green room between courses of being the night\u2019s honoree. \u201cAnd I love Planned Parenthood. I was the teenager that would go to Planned Parenthood. That was the care we had. And it\u2019s so important to keep our rights and our autonomy over our bodies. They are boots on the ground, fighting the fight and showing up in court. Clinics being bombed and shut and these people are absolute heroes. And we need them. We need this care. And I can\u2019t wrap my mind around the fact that strangers and men that hold office get to choose the trajectory of our health and our lives. It\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-time Grammy winner said advocacy was an important part of the example she tries to set for her kids, Willow and Jameson.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI try to show up for as much as I possibly can. And I try to create a home environment that\u2019s going to be a springboard for my kids to then jump off and go and fight the fight,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mom was tired. It\u2019s different now. The times feel\u2026it\u2019s dicey and actually our rights are being taken away left and right. And it\u2019s happening so quickly and from so many directions. It\u2019s so much more than just abortion access. This is for health care for women. This is so doctors can practice. This is so women don\u2019t die from pregnancy complications. This so people can have disease free bodies. It\u2019s so complicated and it\u2019s distilled down into a soundbite and it\u2019s just, it\u2019s unfortunate. I think education for people is the most important thing for people\u2026I always tell my kids, \u2018Question the source and know both sides\u2026Don\u2019t be the person that signed up for the cause three weeks ago. Do your research, do your work.\u2019 And Willow does that. The due diligence is strong with that one. It\u2019s a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood of Greater New York hosted its annual spring gala on Wednesday evening, this year honoring singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,27351,85,46,11321,174208],"class_list":{"0":"post-395596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eye","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-parties","13":"tag-wwd-weekend-arts-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}