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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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# 11,150:
11:47 pm PDT, Oct 23,
Robin Halloran, Alaska
# 11,149:
7:42 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Ende Myers, Kentucky
As family planning funding has decreased, the price of choice has increased to the extent that it is quite apparent our current administration wants us to have no choice at all, but for the one they have approved, seemingly all around: to keep production up and accountability down.
As family planning funding has decreased, the price of choice has increased to the extent that it is quite apparent our current administration wants us to have no choice at all, but for the one they have approved, seemingly all around: to keep production up and accountability down.
# 11,148:
12:06 pm PDT, Sep 8,
Candice Combs, Arizona
# 11,147:
10:28 am PDT, Sep 7,
Margaret Gotsch, New York
# 11,146:
11:29 am PDT, Sep 6,
Stephanie Pagan, Florida
# 11,145:
6:56 am PDT, Sep 4,
Carol Neary, Indiana
# 11,144:
10:09 am PDT, Sep 3,
Richard Bentley, Virginia
# 11,143:
6:28 pm PDT, Sep 2,
Name not displayed, California
# 11,142:
2:40 am PDT, Sep 2,
Kaytie Irvine, California
# 11,141:
12:14 pm PDT, Aug 31,
Jacolin Schultz, Wisconsin
Ensure women have access to contraceptives!
Ensure women have access to contraceptives!
# 11,140:
8:25 pm PDT, Aug 30,
Name not displayed, Virginia
There is all the differnce in the world between contraception and abortion. Even if one is opposed to abortion, there is no reason to prohibit women from access to contraception. Besides the fact that this choice is and should be a personal right, there are many serious health conditions that can make it dangerous for a woman to become pregnant at times. That ought not require the sacrifice of sharing marital intimacy by wife and husband.
There is all the differnce in the world between contraception and abortion. Even if one is opposed to abortion, there is no reason to prohibit women from access to contraception. Besides the fact that this choice is and should be a personal right, there are many serious health conditions that can make it dangerous for a woman to become pregnant at times. That ought not require the sacrifice of sharing marital intimacy by wife and husband.
# 11,139:
7:57 pm PDT, Aug 29,
Roxie Schliesmann, Wisconsin
# 11,138:
10:28 am PDT, Aug 26,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 11,137:
9:11 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky
# 11,136:
2:25 am PDT, Aug 25,
Steven Heaver, New Jersey
# 11,135:
7:36 am PDT, Aug 24,
Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece
# 11,134:
8:31 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Payton Strzalka, Florida
# 11,133:
10:51 am PDT, Aug 18,
Chuck Dowe, Massachusetts
# 11,132:
12:49 pm PDT, Aug 17,
Angela Waldoch, Minnesota
# 11,131:
8:42 pm PDT, Aug 14,
Marlyssa Carlton, California
# 11,130:
7:38 am PDT, Aug 5,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 11,129:
4:15 am PDT, Aug 1,
Cristina Popa, Romania
# 11,128:
5:37 pm PDT, Jul 21,
Dana Hartt, Canada
# 11,127:
2:55 pm PDT, Jul 20,
Dana Szemereta, North Carolina
you go girl!!! i love you
you go girl!!! i love you
# 11,126:
8:59 pm PDT, Jul 17,
Holly L. McEntyre, Ohio
# 11,125:
4:11 pm PDT, Jul 11,
Julia Shebby, California
this is an issue that requires the same ridiculous fight as women's right to vote. it is a no-brainer that women should be the regulators of their own bodies. (do we have legislative debates over vasectomies?) if you don't want to use contraception, then don't use it. but there's obviously a real need for it, and there has been since before the AMA became our reproductive specialist (and the government became our mother).
this is an issue that requires the same ridiculous fight as women's right to vote. it is a no-brainer that women should be the regulators of their own bodies. (do we have legislative debates over vasectomies?) if you don't want to use contraception, then don't use it. but there's obviously a real need for it, and there has been since before the AMA became our reproductive specialist (and the government became our mother).
# 11,124:
6:35 am PDT, Jul 10,
Tina Bate, United Kingdom
# 11,123:
1:03 pm PDT, Jul 8,
Thaissa Jones, North Carolina
# 11,122:
5:43 am PDT, Jul 6,
Name not displayed, Italy
# 11,121:
7:59 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Chris Kuhar, Virginia
# 11,120:
11:03 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Crystal Price, Tennessee
# 11,119:
9:14 am PDT, Jun 24,
Cara Gubrud, Minnesota
# 11,118:
7:14 pm PDT, Jun 19,
Name not displayed, Texas
Birth control saves lives. You want abortion to decrease/cease all together? Support a woman's right to easily accessable birth control!
Birth control saves lives. You want abortion to decrease/cease all together? Support a woman's right to easily accessable birth control!
# 11,117:
9:16 pm PDT, Jun 15,
Robyn Sharpe, Massachusetts
# 11,116:
2:16 pm PDT, Jun 13,
Juliana Farah, Lebanon
# 11,115:
6:35 am PDT, Jun 13,
Kristen J, Virginia
# 11,114:
12:48 pm PDT, Jun 8,
Stacy Gorman, Virginia
# 11,113:
12:24 pm PDT, Jun 2,
Hazel Matich, Illinois
# 11,112:
7:52 pm PDT, May 29,
Ron Goodman, Idaho
# 11,111:
2:40 pm PDT, May 28,
Pauline Houzard, Guadeloupe
# 11,110:
10:35 am PDT, May 27,
Kelly Garbato, Kansas
# 11,109:
11:22 am PDT, May 18,
Malissa Romero, Arizona
# 11,108:
11:15 am PDT, May 17,
Sara Boissonnault, New Hampshire
# 11,107:
2:20 pm PDT, May 16,
Dogan Ozkan, Turkey
# 11,106:
9:03 am PDT, May 16,
Kristin Hulett, California
# 11,105:
6:01 am PDT, May 16,
Kathie Ebersberger, Texas
Because easier and cheaper access to birth control will empower women to protect themselves from unplanned pregnancy and the emotional termoil surrounding it. Our officials on the right want to ban abortion but don't seem to understand that easy, cheap access to birth control is the best way to prevent the need for a women to even have to chose abortion as an option to an unintended pregnancy. It's like saying we know how to help you, but we wont make it easy and then when somthing happens we will make you feel like a bad person. Everyone over a certain age has and enjoys sex, God made our bodies that way. To expect people not to engage in it is ignorant and just plain stupid. So the thing to do is to give the power to the only people who can affect real change in unplanned pregnancies and abortions, Women.
Because easier and cheaper access to birth control will empower women to protect themselves from unplanned pregnancy and the emotional termoil surrounding it. Our officials on the right want to ban abortion but don't seem to understand that easy, cheap access to birth control is the best way to prevent the need for a women to even have to chose abortion as an option to an unintended pregnancy. It's like saying we know how to help you, but we wont make it easy and then when somthing happens we will make you feel like a bad person. Everyone over a certain age has and enjoys sex, God made our bodies that way. To expect people not to engage in it is ignorant and just plain stupid. So the thing to do is to give the power to the only people who can affect real change in unplanned pregnancies and abortions, Women.
# 11,104:
2:51 pm PDT, May 14,
Kaye Fissinger, Colorado
# 11,103:
3:37 am PDT, May 13,
Kristal Kilgore, Michigan
# 11,102:
4:06 pm PDT, May 2,
Michelle Brown, Virginia
# 11,101:
2:40 pm PDT, Apr 26,
Name not displayed, Utah
they don't want women to have access to birth control because more children being born equal future taxpayers and future soldiers. that is all they care about at the expense of a woman's choice or health. they = any man in power. they just don't understand our position and never will. it's not what is important.
they don't want women to have access to birth control because more children being born equal future taxpayers and future soldiers. that is all they care about at the expense of a woman's choice or health. they = any man in power. they just don't understand our position and never will. it's not what is important.