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The Albany Memo is the newsletter published monthly by Family Planning Advocates of New York State. These one to two-page newsletters contain information on the organization's activities and the laws being enacted related to family planning. Also included is information on reproductive issues and the organization's role in fostering responsible family planning. Published in the newsletter are the voting records of state legislators for issues that deal directly with birth control, abortion, parental consent, Medicaid funding for abortion, pre-natal care, and related issues Often whole bills before the state legislature are found printed in the Albany Memo.

This series documents issues such as New York State's system for preventive care; preventing unwanted pregnancy; cartoons on reproductive health; syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and other sexually transmitted diseases; sterilization; teenage pregnancy; a news clipping on infant mortality rates; sex education; parental consent; abortion; and family planning services.