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Invest in Women: Increase Funding for International Family Planning
Target: Members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Sponsored by: Pathfinder International
Sponsored by: Pathfinder International
Family planning programs save lives. Yet millions of women around the world do not have access to critical reproductive health services like contraceptives, pregnancy and childbirth care, and HIV prevention programs. Each year, more than 500,000 women worldwide die during pregnancy or childbirth - and nearly of all these deaths could be prevented.
No medical intervention offers the breadth of potential benefits as family planning. When a woman has access to services that let her control her fertility and protect her health, new opportunities, including education and employment, may open up to her. Family planning programs thus have a "ripple effect" that changes the very fabric of families and communities.
Family planning programs are cost-efficient and highly successful, yet consistently under-funded, even as demand for these services rises quickly around the world.
You can help women have the reproductive health choices they need to protect themselves and their families. Please send a message to members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs today and support our call to increase U.S. funding for international family planning to $1 billion.
No medical intervention offers the breadth of potential benefits as family planning. When a woman has access to services that let her control her fertility and protect her health, new opportunities, including education and employment, may open up to her. Family planning programs thus have a "ripple effect" that changes the very fabric of families and communities.
Family planning programs are cost-efficient and highly successful, yet consistently under-funded, even as demand for these services rises quickly around the world.
You can help women have the reproductive health choices they need to protect themselves and their families. Please send a message to members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs today and support our call to increase U.S. funding for international family planning to $1 billion.
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# 6,800:
11:30 am PDT, May 13,
Carolyn DeMirjian, California
# 6,799:
11:14 am PDT, May 13,
Victoria Vandenberg, Wisconsin
# 6,798:
10:53 am PDT, May 13,
Amanda Walsh, Colorado
# 6,797:
10:50 am PDT, May 13,
Susan Halperin, Hawaii
# 6,796:
10:40 am PDT, May 13,
Trish Gibson, Indiana
# 6,795:
10:39 am PDT, May 13,
Marvin George, Arizona
# 6,794:
10:04 am PDT, May 13,
Lisa Gillis, Michigan
# 6,793:
9:48 am PDT, May 13,
Daniel Cadzow, New York
# 6,792:
9:39 am PDT, May 13,
R. Zierikzee, California
# 6,791:
9:04 am PDT, May 13,
Triska Drake, Georgia
# 6,790:
8:28 am PDT, May 13,
John Hilton, Massachusetts
# 6,789:
7:18 am PDT, May 13,
Ruth Martin, Connecticut
# 6,788:
6:39 am PDT, May 13,
Michael Leder, Arizona
# 6,787:
2:18 am PDT, May 13,
Kevin Zellmer, Wisconsin
# 6,786:
1:07 am PDT, May 13,
Tom Baker, Arizona
This is the most cost effective to not only help these people, but save us and the rest of the world billions of dollars in the future.
This is the most cost effective to not only help these people, but save us and the rest of the world billions of dollars in the future.
# 6,785:
11:01 pm PDT, May 12,
CHRIS HALL, Arizona
# 6,784:
10:40 pm PDT, May 12,
Holly Goldsmith, California
# 6,783:
8:31 pm PDT, May 12,
Jeff Pearson, Arizona
# 6,782:
7:56 pm PDT, May 12,
Robert Husa, Illinois
# 6,781:
7:39 pm PDT, May 12,
Jennifer M Weishaar, Kansas
# 6,780:
7:10 pm PDT, May 12,
Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero, New York
# 6,779:
6:47 pm PDT, May 12,
Christina Ferreri, Washington D.C.
# 6,778:
4:50 pm PDT, May 12,
Sanjiv Bajaj, California
# 6,777:
4:35 pm PDT, May 12,
Deanna Riggan, Tennessee
Women deserve this!
Women deserve this!
# 6,776:
3:39 pm PDT, May 12,
Lois Tonoff, Ohio
# 6,775:
2:00 pm PDT, May 12,
Cynthia Marugg, California
# 6,774:
1:28 pm PDT, May 12,
Mark Werner, New York
# 6,773:
12:41 pm PDT, May 12,
Lori Sherry, Texas
I urge you to PLEASE support increasing family funding to $1 billiion.
I urge you to PLEASE support increasing family funding to $1 billiion.
# 6,772:
11:30 am PDT, May 12,
Catherine Connolly, Florida
# 6,771:
10:14 am PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, New York
All people around the world should be entitled to education and contraception if desired. Too often they are denied due to religious opposition. It should be up to individual women to decide upon the number of children they plan to have!
All people around the world should be entitled to education and contraception if desired. Too often they are denied due to religious opposition. It should be up to individual women to decide upon the number of children they plan to have!
# 6,770:
10:06 am PDT, May 12,
Amaris Avant, Tennessee
# 6,769:
10:01 am PDT, May 12,
Susan Kepner, New Hampshire
This is the right thing to do to help famalies all over the world plan their # of children, so they can properly care for them.
This is the right thing to do to help famalies all over the world plan their # of children, so they can properly care for them.
# 6,768:
9:52 am PDT, May 12,
Diana Donovan, Florida
# 6,767:
9:39 am PDT, May 12,
Angie Arnold, Colorado
# 6,766:
9:33 am PDT, May 12,
Kate Ravenstein, Arizona
# 6,765:
9:08 am PDT, May 12,
Laura Waszazak, New Jersey
# 6,763:
7:23 am PDT, May 12,
Monique Wilton, Florida
# 6,762:
6:52 am PDT, May 12,
Lisa Webber, New York
# 6,761:
5:13 am PDT, May 12,
Mary Morris, Texas
# 6,760:
4:28 am PDT, May 12,
Maria Lucia Asara, Italy
I wish to improve people's quality of life around the world. I think, above all, to women in poverty who don't have access to important health services. Millions of girls and women around the world are suffering and many are dying due to deplorable reproductive-related health services. They need our help. I ask you to read these important lines and increase funding to $1 billion for international family planning assistance in the Fiscal Year 2009. Thanks in advance.
I wish to improve people's quality of life around the world. I think, above all, to women in poverty who don't have access to important health services. Millions of girls and women around the world are suffering and many are dying due to deplorable reproductive-related health services. They need our help. I ask you to read these important lines and increase funding to $1 billion for international family planning assistance in the Fiscal Year 2009. Thanks in advance.
# 6,759:
3:32 am PDT, May 12,
Jessica Lam, California
# 6,758:
11:34 pm PDT, May 11,
Radha McAlpine, Florida
# 6,757:
11:20 pm PDT, May 11,
Mike Nuess, Washington
# 6,756:
11:04 pm PDT, May 11,
Craig Cross, Maryland
# 6,755:
9:52 pm PDT, May 11,
Tom Baldwin, Oregon
# 6,754:
9:51 pm PDT, May 11,
Thomas Olbert, Massachusetts
Lives have been lost because of unjustified funding cuts motivated by political or ideological concerns. On humanitarian and moral grounds, more funding must be allocated towards helping women to obtain control over their lives and make responsible decisions concerning their health, and the economic well-being of their families and communities.
Lives have been lost because of unjustified funding cuts motivated by political or ideological concerns. On humanitarian and moral grounds, more funding must be allocated towards helping women to obtain control over their lives and make responsible decisions concerning their health, and the economic well-being of their families and communities.
# 6,753:
7:04 pm PDT, May 11,
Nathaniel Chan, New York
# 6,752:
7:04 pm PDT, May 11,
Christopher Chan, New York
# 6,751:
6:48 pm PDT, May 11,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida