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Stand Up for Prevention and Public Health!

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Good news. Congress is taking steps to invest more money in Title X ("ten") family-planning services and less in discredited, ineffective "abstinence-only" programs. This would be a dramatic reversal from recent years, when anti-choice lawmakers spent your tax dollars on right-wing ideology in the classroom but refused to fund basic health care for millions of uninsured women.

But it's not a done deal yet. Your members of Congress will be hearing from the anti-choice radicals; make sure they hear from you, too! Please fill out the form below, and make sure your voice gets heard.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 25,000
 

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Dear [Decision maker],

I am writing to you about two important funding decisions that will be made in the FY '09 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.

Title X, the nation's cornerstone family-planning program, has been woefully underfunded for years, jeopardizing basic health care for five million low-income, uninsured families. For many women, particularly those who cannot afford private health insurance, Title X clinics provide their only source of basic health care, such as birth control and cancer screenings. The House has proposed a $15 million boost for Title X, and I urge you to support this increase.

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We took action on “Stand Up for Prevention and Public Health!”
# 4,050:
1:14 am PDT, Jul 27, Kaitlyn Gillaspy, California
Access to contraception and health services is a woman's right. You must provide more funding to Title X and remove funding for grossly ineffective abstinence only programs.
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10:58 pm PDT, Jul 26, Janis Epton, North Carolina
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8:32 pm PDT, Jul 26, Christine Neal, Indiana
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5:40 pm PDT, Jul 26, Ruth Anderson, South Carolina
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12:37 pm PDT, Jul 26, Regina Knapp, California
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9:40 am PDT, Jul 26, A. Alnwick, New York
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9:08 am PDT, Jul 26, Lorrie Hargis, France
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7:51 am PDT, Jul 26, Yolaine Robinson, Texas
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7:46 am PDT, Jul 26, Adrienne Harris, New York
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3:56 am PDT, Jul 26, Abigail Houghton, Tennessee
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7:06 pm PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, Washington
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7:06 pm PDT, Jul 25, Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
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5:52 pm PDT, Jul 25, Barbara Bunton, Texas
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3:47 pm PDT, Jul 25, Carol Lane, Maine
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2:22 pm PDT, Jul 25, Donna Selquist, Florida
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1:57 pm PDT, Jul 25, Tim Stephens, Michigan
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11:28 am PDT, Jul 25, Donna Beasley, Pennsylvania
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10:39 am PDT, Jul 25, Tami Agne, Colorado
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10:37 am PDT, Jul 25, Mary Breitlow, California
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10:32 am PDT, Jul 25, Walt Howard, North Carolina
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9:59 am PDT, Jul 25, Kelly Reardon, Illinois
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9:42 am PDT, Jul 25, Mary Grayeske, Arizona
I have cared for the sick and injured for over forty years and now my health is limited at 63. It has been very hard to work as a registered nurse for so long and see the vast inequality and misuse of health care resources. It is wrong for the insurance companies and other corporate businesses make millions of dollars from the sick and injured. It has been very difficult to see relatively well off youth value unnecessary plastic surgery while disadvantage infants and elderly are not cared for because the services are unavailable to them. We must as a nation take better care of our children and elder population.
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8:43 am PDT, Jul 25, Horace Kelley, Georgia
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8:25 am PDT, Jul 25, Laurel Colton, North Carolina
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8:13 am PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, Michigan
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8:02 am PDT, Jul 25, Samantha Pomp, Arizona
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7:49 am PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, New York
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7:27 am PDT, Jul 25, Andrea Alnwick, New York
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6:53 am PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, New York
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6:53 am PDT, Jul 25, Dawn Bond, New Jersey
Money well spent.
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6:33 am PDT, Jul 25, Name not displayed, New York
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6:20 am PDT, Jul 25, Ellen McCormick, Connecticut
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6:02 am PDT, Jul 25, Andrea Alnwick, New York
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4:41 am PDT, Jul 25, Natsuko Enomoto, Japan
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1:33 am PDT, Jul 25, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin
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10:58 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, California
If you take away a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body, I guarantee you that what you are trying to prevent through "abstinence-only" programs will only (and ironically) cause more.
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8:43 pm PDT, Jul 24, Rr Ff, New York
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5:17 pm PDT, Jul 24, Kelsey Rinehart, California
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4:50 pm PDT, Jul 24, Nikee Harris, Virginia
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4:18 pm PDT, Jul 24, Marcos Kauffman, Texas
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3:28 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jessica Black, Arizona
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12:58 pm PDT, Jul 24, Gayle Harsma-Mullin, California
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10:56 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Maryland
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10:17 am PDT, Jul 24, Paul McKenna, California
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10:00 am PDT, Jul 24, Roger Nehring, South Dakota
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9:43 am PDT, Jul 24, LAurie De LA Rosa, Illinois
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9:25 am PDT, Jul 24, Nancys Nook, Virginia
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9:25 am PDT, Jul 24, Nancy Stover, Michigan
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7:12 am PDT, Jul 24, A. James Nicholas, New York
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