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Stop the Silent War on Contraception
Target: Hillary Clinton, SenatorSponsored by: Friends of Hillary Clinton
There's a quiet war going on in America – against the most basic rights of Americans, especially women, to make their own personal decisions about family planning.
It was started by a small group of extreme ideologues who claim the right to impose their personal beliefs on the overwhelming majority of the American people.
They're waging this silent war on contraception by using the power of the White House and their right-wing allies in Congress -- and so far, they're getting away with it.
The United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies in the industrialized world. And the impact of the war on contraception is borne by the poor: a poor woman is four times as likely to experience an unplanned pregnancy as a higher-income woman.
That's why Senator Hillary Clinton and Congresswoman Nita Lowey have introduced a Congressional Resolution to Strengthen Family Planning Services for Women - and they need your voice to make sure every member of Congress votes on this Resolution. Become a co-sponsor today and help us pass this important resolution to ensure women have access to contraceptives! Senator Clinton will forward your message to your Congressional representatives.
It was started by a small group of extreme ideologues who claim the right to impose their personal beliefs on the overwhelming majority of the American people.
They're waging this silent war on contraception by using the power of the White House and their right-wing allies in Congress -- and so far, they're getting away with it.
The United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies in the industrialized world. And the impact of the war on contraception is borne by the poor: a poor woman is four times as likely to experience an unplanned pregnancy as a higher-income woman.
That's why Senator Hillary Clinton and Congresswoman Nita Lowey have introduced a Congressional Resolution to Strengthen Family Planning Services for Women - and they need your voice to make sure every member of Congress votes on this Resolution. Become a co-sponsor today and help us pass this important resolution to ensure women have access to contraceptives! Senator Clinton will forward your message to your Congressional representatives.
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# 100:
3:18 pm PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 99:
3:11 pm PDT, May 19,
Clyo Beck, Florida
We live in a world of 6.3 billion people. Nearly a billion are starving to death as you read this. There are shortages of food and water around the world. Overpopulation is devastating ecologies. Yet the "religious wrong" wishes to force people to have children they neither want nor can afford. It is punishment for having sex, pure and simple. Get these intruders out of our bedrooms and clinics. Let them mind their own business, not ours.
We live in a world of 6.3 billion people. Nearly a billion are starving to death as you read this. There are shortages of food and water around the world. Overpopulation is devastating ecologies. Yet the "religious wrong" wishes to force people to have children they neither want nor can afford. It is punishment for having sex, pure and simple. Get these intruders out of our bedrooms and clinics. Let them mind their own business, not ours.
# 98:
3:09 pm PDT, May 19,
Paul Uecker, Minnesota
# 97:
3:08 pm PDT, May 19,
Michelle Meacham, Georgia
# 96:
2:37 pm PDT, May 19,
Matthew Whitcomb, Colorado
Legislation hampering contraception as birth control is unacceptable on several levels. Thank you for standing up to this minority group of morally bankrupt religious zealots.
Legislation hampering contraception as birth control is unacceptable on several levels. Thank you for standing up to this minority group of morally bankrupt religious zealots.
# 95:
2:36 pm PDT, May 19,
Alfred Brown, Maine
# 94:
2:25 pm PDT, May 19,
Karen Bowden, Arizona
# 93:
2:24 pm PDT, May 19,
Christy Holland, North Carolina
# 92:
1:57 pm PDT, May 19,
Jess Smart, United Kingdom
# 91:
1:48 pm PDT, May 19,
Ellen Graubart, United Kingdom
# 90:
1:47 pm PDT, May 19,
Kelsey Lissner, California
# 89:
1:45 pm PDT, May 19,
Linda Leimabch, Ohio
A good step in slowing overpopulation, thank you.
A good step in slowing overpopulation, thank you.
# 88:
1:35 pm PDT, May 19,
William Collier, Florida
# 87:
1:32 pm PDT, May 19,
Celeste Bean, Alaska
I think contraception shold be readily available to all women! There would be less unwanted children, less children ripped from homes, going from foster home, to foster home. Less children abandoned, less children mistreated, less families with more children than they can finantualy support! I could go on all day with the advantages of readily availabe contraception, but I can not think of one down side to it, unless you want over population, and govement telling you, that you can only have one child, per houshold. like they do in China!
I think contraception shold be readily available to all women! There would be less unwanted children, less children ripped from homes, going from foster home, to foster home. Less children abandoned, less children mistreated, less families with more children than they can finantualy support! I could go on all day with the advantages of readily availabe contraception, but I can not think of one down side to it, unless you want over population, and govement telling you, that you can only have one child, per houshold. like they do in China!
# 86:
1:16 pm PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 85:
1:06 pm PDT, May 19,
Lawrence Smith, BA, Georgia
"For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then will he answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." (Matthew 25:42-45) Contained within every evil(greedy profiteering republican) act are the seeds of its own destruction. Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences. It IS that simple. TRUTH has been spoken to power, Peace will prevail. Buck Fush! SUPPORT U.S. TROOPS, AND GLOBAL PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, AS WELL AS ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY... IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW!
"For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then will he answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." (Matthew 25:42-45) Contained within every evil(greedy profiteering republican) act are the seeds of its own destruction. Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences. It IS that simple. TRUTH has been spoken to power, Peace will prevail. Buck Fush! SUPPORT U.S. TROOPS, AND GLOBAL PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, AS WELL AS ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY... IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW!
# 84:
1:05 pm PDT, May 19,
Scott Roose, Washington
# 83:
12:48 pm PDT, May 19,
Kari Tompkins, Oklahoma
# 82:
12:44 pm PDT, May 19,
Jim Rahn, California
No authority has the right to tell others what they can or cannot do when it comes to contraception.
No authority has the right to tell others what they can or cannot do when it comes to contraception.
# 81:
12:23 pm PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 80:
12:22 pm PDT, May 19,
Robert S. Lynch, New York
# 79:
12:21 pm PDT, May 19,
Candy Bowman-LeBlanc, California
# 78:
12:20 pm PDT, May 19,
Brandi Roberts, Ohio
If women aren't allowed to make choices about their own body, then what is this country coming to? I know quite a few people that I've met who I thought should be made to use birth control due to the fact that they continue to have children that are automatically taken away from them for various reasons. The only benefit to that is some lucky couple who can't have children out there gets a newborn. I have a little girl, and I am helping my fiance raise his daughter. If I weren't on birth control, I'd probably end up pregnant again. Yes, I want more children, but not right now. I can't afford the extra expense right now, and we have our hands full already with two toddlers. We want to get on our feet and get married before we have any more children. Its not only my decision but his as well. There are too many women out there who don't use birth control and sleep around and have no idea who their child belongs to. To not allow women to use birth control would make that number significantly higher. Birth control gives a woman the freedom to be as sexual active as a man without the repurcussions. Men alot of times father children and never know it since they aren't the ones carrying the child. If there was a way for a man to carry a child and go through everything that a woman does, they would understand our desire to take birth control.
If women aren't allowed to make choices about their own body, then what is this country coming to? I know quite a few people that I've met who I thought should be made to use birth control due to the fact that they continue to have children that are automatically taken away from them for various reasons. The only benefit to that is some lucky couple who can't have children out there gets a newborn. I have a little girl, and I am helping my fiance raise his daughter. If I weren't on birth control, I'd probably end up pregnant again. Yes, I want more children, but not right now. I can't afford the extra expense right now, and we have our hands full already with two toddlers. We want to get on our feet and get married before we have any more children. Its not only my decision but his as well. There are too many women out there who don't use birth control and sleep around and have no idea who their child belongs to. To not allow women to use birth control would make that number significantly higher. Birth control gives a woman the freedom to be as sexual active as a man without the repurcussions. Men alot of times father children and never know it since they aren't the ones carrying the child. If there was a way for a man to carry a child and go through everything that a woman does, they would understand our desire to take birth control.
# 77:
12:12 pm PDT, May 19,
Carlos Amorim, Canada
# 76:
12:11 pm PDT, May 19,
Mallory Sanders, New York
It is unutterably reprehensible that the U.S. government should be tampering with a woman's right to use contraception, virtually forcing her to bear children. What happened to small government? Even the Pope makes exception for the use of condoms.
It is unutterably reprehensible that the U.S. government should be tampering with a woman's right to use contraception, virtually forcing her to bear children. What happened to small government? Even the Pope makes exception for the use of condoms.
# 75:
11:50 am PDT, May 19,
Jennifer Smith, Massachusetts
# 74:
11:43 am PDT, May 19,
Annette Preaux, Arizona
# 73:
11:43 am PDT, May 19,
Barry Spielvogel, New York
# 72:
11:40 am PDT, May 19,
Ron Silver, Florida
# 71:
11:38 am PDT, May 19,
Suzanne McIntyre, Florida
What year is this? Is it the 18th century? No, well it certainly seems like it.
What year is this? Is it the 18th century? No, well it certainly seems like it.
# 70:
11:28 am PDT, May 19,
Sarah Peter, Nevada
I feel that any woman should have easy and safe access to all forms of birth control at any time.
I feel that any woman should have easy and safe access to all forms of birth control at any time.
# 69:
11:17 am PDT, May 19,
Amy Brown, Virginia
# 68:
11:07 am PDT, May 19,
Franklin McCallie, Missouri
The attack on women in this country is reprehensible. Family planning is the only sensible and ethical way to allow each woman to make her own choice as to the child/children she does or does not want to have. All family planning services should be available to all women.
The attack on women in this country is reprehensible. Family planning is the only sensible and ethical way to allow each woman to make her own choice as to the child/children she does or does not want to have. All family planning services should be available to all women.
# 67:
11:03 am PDT, May 19,
Rigg Kennedy, California
# 66:
10:57 am PDT, May 19,
Gale Haltom, California
I am pro-choice. Birth is a choice not an accident.
I am pro-choice. Birth is a choice not an accident.
# 65:
10:54 am PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Mississippi
# 64:
10:44 am PDT, May 19,
Bruce Combs, Virginia
I think most of our social/political problems arise from to many people feeling unwanted when young (probably correctly!). As someone once said: "It takes a village to raise a child." Unplanned for kids likely won't get that.
I think most of our social/political problems arise from to many people feeling unwanted when young (probably correctly!). As someone once said: "It takes a village to raise a child." Unplanned for kids likely won't get that.
# 63:
10:32 am PDT, May 19,
Agnes Parker, Georgia
# 62:
10:20 am PDT, May 19,
Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland
# 61:
10:16 am PDT, May 19,
Claudia Vertessen, Belgium
# 60:
10:13 am PDT, May 19,
Russell Schaller, New Mexico
Over population is the killer of the Earth
Over population is the killer of the Earth
# 59:
10:06 am PDT, May 19,
Frank Calabrese, California
Religion does not belong in the Whitehouse, or in government-SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!
Religion does not belong in the Whitehouse, or in government-SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!
# 58:
10:03 am PDT, May 19,
Kelly Kramer, California
We women of power have to stand up for those who do not have the means to do so. Hilary for President!!!!
We women of power have to stand up for those who do not have the means to do so. Hilary for President!!!!
# 57:
10:01 am PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 56:
10:01 am PDT, May 19,
Name not displayed, Canada
I stand by you because I think it is about time that women get the same respect as men do.
I stand by you because I think it is about time that women get the same respect as men do.
# 55:
9:59 am PDT, May 19,
Diane Johnson, Wisconsin
# 54:
9:59 am PDT, May 19,
Stephanie Spellman, Michigan
# 53:
9:45 am PDT, May 19,
Eric Vogt, Washington
# 52:
9:44 am PDT, May 19,
Marcela Del valle, California
# 51:
9:43 am PDT, May 19,
Lydia Kawaler, New York