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Take two minutes to make a difference.
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Join the Feminist Majority Foundation in speaking out against the federal funding of abstinence-only programs
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Help PRCH guarantee that all public and private health care insurers cover the full range of reproductive health prevention and treatments
- Join Population Connection's call for No Money for Abstinence-Only Programs
- Join 30,000 others on Facebook who will 'Send a Condom to the Pope'
- Sign NARAL's Petition! Don't Let the Senate Block Family-Planning Programs!
- Help Planned Parenthood Expose Senator DeMint's Lies--Act Now to Protect College Women's Access to Birth Control!
- Urgent: Vote NO on the anti-contraception Vitter Amendment
Some time today, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) may offer an anti-family
planning amendment during Senate floor consideration of the FY 2009
Omnibus Appropriations bill (H.R. 1105). This amendment (S. Amdt.
601) constitutes a full-scale assault on family planning providers,
and must not prevail. Please take 5 minutes to call your Senators and
urge them to vote NO on the Vitter amendment. This amendment would
prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving funds through Title X and
limit access to contraception for low-income men and women. This is
not the way to achieve the universal goal of reducing the number of
unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion, and it is crucial
that the Senate hear this message loud and clear from providers in
their states. Please call your Senators now to urge them to vote NO
on the Vitter amendment. To speak with your Senators, call the
Congressional Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to speak to your
Senators' offices.
S. Amdt. 601 would prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving funds
for family planning projects under Title X:
* The Vitter amendment constitutes a full-scale attack on family
planning for low-income individuals.
* The Vitter amendment would defund approximately 575 family
planning clinics, almost 13% of Title X-funded clinics nationwide.
This amendment could defund entire health care provider networks that
span large geographic areas. Passage of this amendment would eliminate
Title X-funded family planning services completely in Connecticut,
Wisconsin and Utah, as Planned Parenthood is the sole Title X grantee
for those states.
* The Vitter amendment could cut off nearly one million women-more
than one in five women who receive Title X services-from their family
planning provider. Two-thirds of Title X clients have incomes below
the federal poverty level, and most are uninsured and do not qualify
for Medicaid. Many of these women-particularly those who live in rural
areas--could face tremendous difficulty finding other health care
providers able and willing to deliver the high-quality family planning
services required of Title X, placing them at increased risk of
unintended pregnancy and abortion.
* Title X funds do not now, nor have they ever, paid for abortion.
Current federal law and policy prohibit Title X funds from being used
to provide, promote, or encourage abortions. This amendment
specifically targets Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that no
violation of the prohibitions on abortion-related activities has ever
been identified over the program's more than three decade history.
Time is of the essence. Please call your Senators now to urge them
to vote NO on the Vitter amendment. To speak with your Senators, call
the Congressional Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to speak to your
Senators' offices.
- Be Part of ACLU's Call for No More Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs
- Join RH Reality Check in Asking President Obama to Stand Up for Family Planning
- Planned Parenthood wants you to tell the White House it was the wrong move to remove the contraception provision from the stimulus package--Americans need safety net protections!
- Join Americans for UNFPA in telling your Senator to Follow President Obama's Lead and Restore Funding to UNFPA
- Urge President Obama to reverse the anti-contraception HHS regulations with National Partnership for Women and Families
- Support the Prevention First Act--Sign the National Partnership for Women and Families Petition
- Tell HHS Contraception is Not Abortion through Change.org
- Help Shape the Obama Administration's Reproductive Health Agenda, Share Your Ideas at Change.gov
- Sign Prevention Now Letter to Support Female Condoms at U.S. FDA Review
- Join National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health in Urging Univision to Run Condom Radio Ads
- Join the Debate: Do you think that birth control should be covered under insurance?
- Join RH Reality Check in telling President-Elect Obama that NOW is the time to remedy 8 years of failed women's health policies
- Vote NO on Parade Magazine's poll asking, "Should abstinence-only sex ed continue?"
- Take part in Trojan’s Evolve Campaign and help improve America’s sexual health
- Support Planned Parenthood's battle for comprehensive sex education
- Join NARAL in telling your pharmacist to carry plan B
- Help NOW Restore affordable birth-control to low-income and college women
- Take part in the Cover My Pills Project's Fair Access to Contraception Campaign and Get Protected!
- Join Feminist Majority to Help Restore Affordable Birth Control for Students and Low Income Women
- Take part in Advocate for Youth's petition drive for EC Access for all women
- Take part in Choice USA's campaign for affordable birth control on campus
- Join Advocates for Youth in Telling Bush to Increase International Family Planning Funding
- Support the Restoration of US Funding to UNFPA with Americans for UNFPA
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