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Tell Congress to Increase Funding for Family-Planning Program

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America

Funding levels for Title X ("ten"), the nation's federal family-planning program, are about to be proposed. The program need a funding boost to maintain effectiveness.

Millions of Americans have no health insurance and, for many of them, this program is their only source of health care. The funding is crucial to ensuring women's access to birth control, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, screenings for breast and cervical cancer and hypertension, prenatal care and well-baby care, among other things.

Urge your members of Congress to protect family-planning services for millions of women and men this year - and for years to come!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 20,000

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Dear [Decision maker],

I am writing to urge you to increase funding for the Title X program in the FY'09 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill.

As you know, Title X serves approximately five million low-income women and men nationwide; for many women, particularly those who cannot afford private health insurance and who do not qualify for Medicaid, Title X clinics provide their only source of basic health care.

If Title X funding had increased at only the rate of inflation since 1980, it would now be funded at more than $725 million. Right now, Title X's funding level is less than half that amount. At a minimum, Title X needs to be funded at $385 million to maintain quality services.

[Your comment here]

Please take steps to increase critical Title X funding in the FY '09 health budget and protect the millions of women and men who count on this critical program.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We signed the “Tell Congress to Increase Funding for Family-Planning Program” petition!

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7:53 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, Indiana

# 149:

7:53 am PDT, Jun 6, Angie Sims, South Carolina

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7:52 am PDT, Jun 6, Rebecca Rice, Illinois
Especially in a time when so many people are having a hard time paying bills, keeping their homes, or getting out of debt, it's imperative that families to be able to choose when they bring more kids into the world. Giving people access to the freedoms guaranteed under the law has never been so important.

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7:52 am PDT, Jun 6, Mia Wyatt, Maryland

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7:52 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, Minnesota

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7:51 am PDT, Jun 6, Kathryn Cook-Deegan, North Carolina

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7:51 am PDT, Jun 6, Penne Beckett, Illinois

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7:51 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, New York

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7:51 am PDT, Jun 6, Theresa Cunningham, Georgia

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7:50 am PDT, Jun 6, Krystyn Satko, Pennsylvania

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7:50 am PDT, Jun 6, Lara Pacheco, California

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7:50 am PDT, Jun 6, Thomas Fritz, Florida

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, R John Gibson, Indiana

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Michael Partsch, California

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Michael Monar, Illinois

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Sharon Anderson, Minnesota

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Jason Radford, North Carolina

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Donald Sievert, Missouri

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7:49 am PDT, Jun 6, Mumma Shelly, Wisconsin

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7:48 am PDT, Jun 6, Sarah Dillow, Pennsylvania

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7:48 am PDT, Jun 6, Jan Tymorek, Wisconsin

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7:48 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, California

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7:48 am PDT, Jun 6, Michael Settles, Washington

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7:47 am PDT, Jun 6, Robert Sylvester, Alaska

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7:47 am PDT, Jun 6, Mary Finelli, Maryland
We can't afford to not fund family planning services. It is money very humanely and well spent.

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7:47 am PDT, Jun 6, Lavon Jay Miller, Colorado

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7:47 am PDT, Jun 6, Jaimi Guevara, California

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7:47 am PDT, Jun 6, Denise Maurer, New Jersey

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7:46 am PDT, Jun 6, Robert Stockstill, California

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7:46 am PDT, Jun 6, Jackie Raynes, Colorado

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7:46 am PDT, Jun 6, Nathan Rummel, Maryland

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7:46 am PDT, Jun 6, Caitlin Freyvogel, Florida

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7:45 am PDT, Jun 6, Edward Canaday, Michigan

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7:45 am PDT, Jun 6, Loren Enders, California

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7:45 am PDT, Jun 6, JANET Akaha, California

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7:45 am PDT, Jun 6, John Griggs, Arizona

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, Diane Masters, North Carolina

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, Ammiel Schwartz, New York

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, Eric Eskenazi, New York

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, Daniel Amon, South Carolina

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, James Trimm, Virginia

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7:44 am PDT, Jun 6, Lisa Talenti, Maryland

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7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, Ohio

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7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, California

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7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Joselynn Burton, California

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7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Elizabeth Johnson, New Mexico
We desperately need these service for women. Health care is too expensive for most women and men too.

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7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Name not displayed, Michigan
If it were not for this program there were plenty of times in my earlier years that I would have not had Health Care. This Health Care program needs to exist to help those who do not have Health Insurance or the means to pay for Health Care.

# 103:

7:43 am PDT, Jun 6, Erin Engelbrink, Ohio

# 102:

7:42 am PDT, Jun 6, Michael Ludwig, Missouri

# 101:

7:42 am PDT, Jun 6, Katie Abrahams, Washington

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