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Protect Women's Reproductive Freedom!
Target: U.S. SenatorsSponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Women make up more than half of the population of the United States, yet women still struggle to gain freedom over our most basic rights – the right to plan our pregnancies, the right to choose when and if to have a child, and the right to control our bodies, WITHOUT government interference in our private medical decisions!
On January 22, 2004, the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced the federal Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), a landmark piece of legislation that will protect women's civil liberties and prohibit the government from interfering in the exercise of reproductive rights.
Help pass this bill to protect our most fundamental freedoms! FOCA is about reproductive freedom at its most basic for ALL women – FOCA protects a woman's right to choose to bear a child as well as her right to plan her pregnancies with birth control and to choose to terminate a pregnancy. FOCA prohibits discrimination against the exercise of reproductive rights.
Tell your Senators today: support the Freedom of Choice Act! Sign below.
On January 22, 2004, the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced the federal Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), a landmark piece of legislation that will protect women's civil liberties and prohibit the government from interfering in the exercise of reproductive rights.
Help pass this bill to protect our most fundamental freedoms! FOCA is about reproductive freedom at its most basic for ALL women – FOCA protects a woman's right to choose to bear a child as well as her right to plan her pregnancies with birth control and to choose to terminate a pregnancy. FOCA prohibits discrimination against the exercise of reproductive rights.
Tell your Senators today: support the Freedom of Choice Act! Sign below.
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all intelligent people do.
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All children born into the world deserve to be planned, wanted.
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My body, my choice!
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it is vitally important to me, that as a young woman in the US today, my rights to privacy and safe medical treatment are insured.
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Its a womens right and not a murderlike Bush. he can kill for profits, he should not speak against a woman's right to choose!
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I support the Freedom of Choice Act because this is not quite yet a Bush-Rove-Asscroft Empire, altho that's what you unpatriotic bums intend to make it, and because IT'S NO DAMN BUSINESS OF YOURS WHAT A WOMAN CHOOSES TO DO WITH HER BODY. So Bush-off.
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We need to take a rational view of sexual activity and the very real possibility of over-populating the world. Today many children are born into an impoverished life of hopelessness and despair. By controlling the reproductive cycles, we can free women to be truly equal members of the human species and at the same time reduce the instance of despair, poverty, and terrorism.
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Women need to be able to plan whether to have children and when it works for them. Every child should be a wanted child. Anything that limits women's right to choose is bad for women and bad for their families.
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Please support the Freedom of Choice Act. Freedom to Choose doesn't only have to do with legal abortion. I'm afraid this is the only subject that is becoming identified with the right to choose. There are issues of health and planned pregnancy too. Aids is a factor and ,I suppose, could be grouped under health issues. Women's issues are being villified by the religious Right. I sometimes see no difference between the arguments of the religious Right and members of extreme Muslim fundamentalists. Both seem immovable in their lack of compassion and understanding.
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We are rapidly overpopulating the earth, and I'm sure that all those hungry babies and children that organizations televise for us to support can't be any more fun for you to see as they are to me. If there is no proper birth control, then safe abortions ought to be made available. If only to ensure that there are less children born that won't have a healthy life. The poor that fall through the Welfare cracks, and those who are busy doping themselves silly cannot be responsible for an unwanted pregnancy always. They don't always happen to those who want and could feed the children. It makes no sense to take this option away. Certainly, some will go and get pregnant irresponsibly, and it is them I am including as well. Please think long and hard about supporting FOCA. jp
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My body, my choice. I own my body and I alone have the right to decide what I do with it or to it. The government needs to worry about running the country and not about running my life or anyone elses.
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Only an woman and her doctor can know all the details. The woman and her religious support must answer their own beliefs.
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women's bodies and their reproductive organs do not belong to the government or a legislative body. Women need to be supported with as much education and options for their reproductive helath as possible.
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There is nothing more sacred than the right to personal health freedom. It is definitely not the prerogative of elected officials.
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Until we address the real underlying causes of why this happens, we have no right to remove it.
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CONTRATARY TO SO MANY MEN'S BELIEF SYSTMES, WOMEN ARE NOT POSESSIONS, THEY ARE NOT CREATURES THAT HAVE NO RELATION WITH GOD, ( MEN BELIEVE THAT IS RESERVED FOR MEN ONLY, IN TOO MANY RELIGIONS-WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THOSE WOMEN THAT DO NOT BELIEVE IN A GOD), AND THAT MEN REALLY SHOULD THE HAVE EXPRESS SAYSO OVER WOMENS BODIES AND MINDS. WHY ARE DO SO MANY MEN HAVE THIS BELIEF SYSTEM? AND WHY DO SO MANY WOMEN BUY INTO IT?????
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It is the woman's body. It is not the property of a government or any man. She, alone, has the right to determine the destiny of her own body.
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I am tired of the restrictions continuously being placed on my right to choose by politicians who ought to be worry about their own bodies and their own reproductive choices and not mine! Interesting that many politicians who oppose abortion also oppose welfare and other social measures that would benefit unwanted / poor / disadvantaged children. They value a clump of cells over living, breathing women and children. Stop the hypocrisy! It's my body, my choice!
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Barbara Boxer is my hero!!!!! I am 18 yrs old and I firmly, firmly believe that every woman deserves the right to do what she chooses with her body- it is her CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to privacy and the only way we can preserve our free and democratic society. Bush, the Christian fundamentalists, and all those old white men running our country need to butt out of the business of abortion once and for all: it's between women and their doctors, period! KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF OUR BODIES!!!
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The issue of reproductive choice is a human rights issue; there is no reason that women should be denied to make decisions about their own medical care.
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As a woman and a bearer of life, I believe that we should be able to choose what is best for our bodies.