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Help Rape Survivors Get the Health Care They Need
Target: US House of RepresentativesSponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Did you know that many emergency rooms fail to offer important medication to sexual-assault survivors that would prevent pregnancy?
This medication called emergency contraception (EC) or Plan B, is a concentrated dose of ordinary birth-control pills. These simple pills could spare assault victims from additional trauma and health complications, beginning at their hospital visit.
New legislation called Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act ("CARE": H.R.464) would ensure that access to EC is included as standard care for rape survivors.
Help ensure that these women have a chance to be safe and healthy again. Ask your members of Congress today to pass the CARE Act today!
This medication called emergency contraception (EC) or Plan B, is a concentrated dose of ordinary birth-control pills. These simple pills could spare assault victims from additional trauma and health complications, beginning at their hospital visit.
New legislation called Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act ("CARE": H.R.464) would ensure that access to EC is included as standard care for rape survivors.
Help ensure that these women have a chance to be safe and healthy again. Ask your members of Congress today to pass the CARE Act today!
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We signed the “Help Rape Survivors Get the Health Care They Need” petition!
# 23,100:
12:59 pm PST, Feb 5,
Joy Ephraim, Canada
# 23,099:
1:52 am PST, Feb 5,
Lisa R Smith, Tennessee
I don't think it's up to voters or elected officials to decide what a rape victim should or should not recieve. Women should choose what's best for them, Please support this bill.
I don't think it's up to voters or elected officials to decide what a rape victim should or should not recieve. Women should choose what's best for them, Please support this bill.
# 23,098:
6:42 pm PST, Feb 4,
Jaime Trainer, West Virginia
# 23,097:
6:51 am PST, Feb 4,
Mindi Davis, Indiana
# 23,096:
4:32 am PST, Feb 3,
Christopher Eber, Texas
# 23,095:
3:50 pm PST, Feb 2,
Viktoria Toth-Gerst, Hungary
# 23,094:
4:26 pm PST, Feb 1,
Angela Jasper, Texas
# 23,093:
8:01 am PST, Jan 31,
Kyna Crain, Montana
# 23,092:
3:27 pm PST, Jan 29,
Allison Gardner, Tennessee
# 23,091:
7:24 am PST, Jan 29,
Carol Neary, Indiana
# 23,090:
8:57 pm PST, Jan 28,
Karen Mitchell, Oregon
# 23,089:
3:47 pm PST, Jan 27,
Alli Luckie, Connecticut
# 23,088:
11:35 pm PST, Jan 24,
Elena Marschino, New York
# 23,087:
5:54 am PST, Jan 24,
Mike Something, Missouri
# 23,086:
9:29 pm PST, Jan 23,
Chad Mullan, New Jersey
# 23,085:
4:18 pm PST, Jan 23,
Donna D, Pennsylvania
# 23,084:
5:28 pm PST, Jan 20,
RIVER FRANCE, Canada
# 23,083:
7:37 am PST, Jan 19,
Linda McBride, New York
We should do all we can to reduce the trauma of rape, not increase it. Those who advocate strongly for the right to life of the unborn seem surprisingly unwilling to advocate for child health care funding, stem-cell research, or other programs that would help maintain the life of those already born.
We should do all we can to reduce the trauma of rape, not increase it. Those who advocate strongly for the right to life of the unborn seem surprisingly unwilling to advocate for child health care funding, stem-cell research, or other programs that would help maintain the life of those already born.
# 23,082:
8:34 pm PST, Jan 18,
Danielle Douey, Canada
# 23,081:
4:22 am PST, Jan 18,
Name not displayed, New York
# 23,080:
8:46 pm PST, Jan 14,
Name not displayed, California
# 23,079:
8:24 am PST, Jan 14,
Cindy Flowers, Texas
# 23,078:
6:28 am PST, Jan 14,
Jocelyn Nunes, Nevada
Because they deserve a choice,and they deserve far better treatment than they have been recieving now.
Because they deserve a choice,and they deserve far better treatment than they have been recieving now.
# 23,077:
8:03 pm PST, Jan 13,
Christina Hawkins, North Carolina
# 23,076:
6:30 pm PST, Jan 13,
Dawn Bolin, Ohio
# 23,075:
7:55 pm PST, Jan 11,
Mariela V, Florida
# 23,074:
9:09 am PST, Jan 11,
Name not displayed, North Carolina
They need to be able to feel better and find something to get over the pain. Because i think that no one should have to go through the pain they did.
They need to be able to feel better and find something to get over the pain. Because i think that no one should have to go through the pain they did.
# 23,073:
6:16 am PST, Jan 11,
Vicki Forester, Georgia
Rape victims are denied MAP's in our local emergency room. They are told to go to a doctor, even if the next day is a Sunday and the day after that is a holiday. 72 hours and the pill is not effective. Once again, the rape victim has been treated like the criminal offender. This is outrage and has to stop.
Rape victims are denied MAP's in our local emergency room. They are told to go to a doctor, even if the next day is a Sunday and the day after that is a holiday. 72 hours and the pill is not effective. Once again, the rape victim has been treated like the criminal offender. This is outrage and has to stop.
# 23,072:
2:27 pm PST, Jan 10,
Daniel Amon, South Carolina
# 23,071:
4:44 pm PST, Jan 9,
Annica Klein, Germany
# 23,070:
1:53 pm PST, Jan 8,
Ingrid G., Illinois
# 23,069:
6:01 pm PST, Jan 7,
Irene Pena, New Mexico
no woman should ever have to bear the child of a rape assult. This law will enssure that the sexual-assault survivors are not more traumatized in the long run and unwanted children will not be placed up for adoption or foster homes and also because the childern that are a result of rapes suffer too as alot of times they feel unwanted and not loved even if it is no fault of thier own. This will also cut down on abortions. No man could ever understand what a woman goes through when they are raped let alone have to bear the child of the rapest. Also to add what the mother has to go thruogh if she keeps the child, how could she explain to the child when they start asking about thier father. No woman or child should ever be put through that and for you MEN out there just think if that was YOUR MOTHER, SISTER OR DAUGHTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help support this law to go into effect!!!!!!!
no woman should ever have to bear the child of a rape assult. This law will enssure that the sexual-assault survivors are not more traumatized in the long run and unwanted children will not be placed up for adoption or foster homes and also because the childern that are a result of rapes suffer too as alot of times they feel unwanted and not loved even if it is no fault of thier own. This will also cut down on abortions. No man could ever understand what a woman goes through when they are raped let alone have to bear the child of the rapest. Also to add what the mother has to go thruogh if she keeps the child, how could she explain to the child when they start asking about thier father. No woman or child should ever be put through that and for you MEN out there just think if that was YOUR MOTHER, SISTER OR DAUGHTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help support this law to go into effect!!!!!!!
# 23,068:
8:45 pm PST, Jan 5,
Name not displayed, Georgia
# 23,067:
8:41 pm PST, Jan 3,
Laurel Watson, Arizona
# 23,066:
7:58 pm PST, Jan 3,
Dawee Van, Michigan
# 23,065:
7:54 am PST, Jan 3,
Laura Smolowitz, Massachusetts
# 23,064:
6:28 pm PST, Jan 2,
Name not displayed, Georgia
# 23,063:
5:11 pm PST, Jan 2,
Name not displayed, Australia
i believe that we need to help these people because almost every day there is at least one inocent girl raped. i am only 15 years of age, yet i feel very strongly about rape victims and i really want to help as much as i possibly can.
i believe that we need to help these people because almost every day there is at least one inocent girl raped. i am only 15 years of age, yet i feel very strongly about rape victims and i really want to help as much as i possibly can.
# 23,062:
2:40 am PST, Jan 1,
Sadia Furhad, Texas
# 23,061:
9:13 pm PST, Dec 30,
Dana Yandle, North Carolina
# 23,060:
9:43 am PST, Dec 29,
Madalyn Ellis, Texas
# 23,059:
1:55 am PST, Dec 29,
Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
# 23,058:
10:14 am PST, Dec 28,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 23,057:
7:58 pm PST, Dec 21,
Tara Simpson, Ohio
# 23,056:
6:38 am PST, Dec 13,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 23,055:
5:56 pm PST, Dec 11,
Damaris Santana, Ohio
# 23,054:
11:09 am PST, Dec 11,
Cassie Toner, Washington
# 23,053:
1:05 pm PST, Dec 8,
Sean Lanigan, New York
# 23,052:
6:36 am PST, Dec 8,
Katrina Cheek, Virginia
# 23,051:
11:04 am PST, Dec 7,
Linda Seide, Pennsylvania