Our representatives in Washington are hard at work these days on health care reform legislation. We must make sure they don't make any more concessions to the anti-choice pressure they're feeling now.
You can make sure that American women don't lose ground - including losing abortion coverage they already have - in the new health system.
Reproductive-health care should be treated like any other health care service in the new system - not singled out for exclusion on political grounds. Speak out by writing your senators now!
We took action on “Don't Let Anti-Choice Politics Put Women's Health in Jeopardy”:
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5:14 pm PST, Nov 20,Mark Donaldson, Florida
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4:57 pm PST, Nov 20,Barbara Mason, California
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4:17 pm PST, Nov 20,Amanda Curry, Texas
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4:13 pm PST, Nov 20,Nancy Draper, Florida
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3:36 pm PST, Nov 20,Laura Poskus, Illinois
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2:53 pm PST, Nov 20,Chetna Pittea, United Kingdom
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1:51 pm PST, Nov 20,Valerie Hoffman, Illinois
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12:26 pm PST, Nov 20,Shannin Zevian, Iowa
This is a blatant case of church and state being smashed together. As these two entities are supposed to be separate in this country, it's unbelievable to me that these issues get any ground at all. Women in this country deserve better!
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12:23 pm PST, Nov 20,Kathryn Cook, Massachusetts
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12:07 pm PST, Nov 20,Liliya Mcculley, New Jersey
# 7,213:
11:57 am PST, Nov 20,Susana Lax, Florida
Do not allow the anti-choice bigots to prevent a woman from getting the health care and services that she needs!
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11:38 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Georgia
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10:09 am PST, Nov 20,Melissa Johnson, Illinois
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9:58 am PST, Nov 20,Karen L Martellaro, Kansas
As an LPN,I took care of patients,whose religious beliefs I did not agree with. I did not force my beliefs on them,I respected their right to refuse treatment because of their beliefs.I want my Senators to stop forcing their beliefs on me.By refusing to include abortion services in any health care bill, that's what they are doing. It's time to let medical decisions be made by the patient and her doctor.
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8:58 am PST, Nov 20,Travis Cortelyou, New Jersey
do not infringe on a women rights to her health choices no matter how much you may not agree.
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8:56 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, California
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8:48 am PST, Nov 20,Gaye Gamble, California
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7:58 am PST, Nov 20,Cathie Capobianco, New York
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7:53 am PST, Nov 20,Maria Chinchilla, Florida
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7:34 am PST, Nov 20,Stephen Weatherby, Georgia
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7:15 am PST, Nov 20,Connie Oglesby, Iowa
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7:02 am PST, Nov 20,Linda Isham, New Jersey
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6:18 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Colorado
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5:22 am PST, Nov 20,Ellen Irwin Saal, Ohio
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5:11 am PST, Nov 20,Miriam Walsh, Massachusetts
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1:59 am PST, Nov 20,Merissa Hatcher, Kentucky
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9:57 pm PST, Nov 19,Hazel PATTERSON, Texas
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6:58 pm PST, Nov 19,Jennifer Keith, Pennsylvania
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6:51 pm PST, Nov 19,Brande Pickerel, Washington
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5:07 pm PST, Nov 19,Tiffany Holsen, Pennsylvania
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4:36 pm PST, Nov 19,Jackie Gonzalez, California
a women should have her own rights to her body.
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4:31 pm PST, Nov 19,Robert Rafferty, Illinois
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3:17 pm PST, Nov 19,Name not displayed, South Carolina
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2:03 pm PST, Nov 19,Rfuaw Diarra, Texas
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12:19 pm PST, Nov 19,Joanna f Welch, California
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11:22 am PST, Nov 19,Name not displayed, New Jersey
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11:19 am PST, Nov 19,Shawn Johnson, California
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10:48 am PST, Nov 19,Christopher Patterson, Pennsylvania
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9:43 am PST, Nov 19,Mary L. Schleicher, Washington
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9:33 am PST, Nov 19,Deborah Gorman, New York
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9:17 am PST, Nov 19,Nicole Leiva, California
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9:12 am PST, Nov 19,Kimberly Ellenberger, Wisconsin
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8:13 am PST, Nov 19,Robert Hlavna, Illinois
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8:01 am PST, Nov 19,Erika Davis, California
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7:38 am PST, Nov 19,Judy Green, Illinois
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7:34 am PST, Nov 19,Margie K. Glod, Texas
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7:13 am PST, Nov 19,Kathryn Keiner, Minnesota
This is still a constitutional right for women, and should still be their choice.
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7:10 am PST, Nov 19,Jenifer Harris, Virginia
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6:54 am PST, Nov 19,Joan F. Golden, Massachusetts
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5:54 am PST, Nov 19,Willow Raine, North Carolina
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5:12 am PST, Nov 19,Nancy Bowden, Pennsylvania
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3:48 am PST, Nov 19,Joycey Berry, North Carolina
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10:59 pm PST, Nov 18,Matthew Travers, Florida
Choose freedom of choice , not freedom from choice .
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8:42 pm PST, Nov 18,Name not displayed, Texas
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7:58 pm PST, Nov 18,Name not displayed, California
freedom can ring. let it.
# 7,168:
7:38 pm PST, Nov 18,Linda Sperber, Minnesota
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7:25 pm PST, Nov 18,Rosemary Prem, California
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6:17 pm PST, Nov 18,Christopher Allen, New Mexico
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5:37 pm PST, Nov 18,Debra Jaramillo, Florida
Please protect a woman's right to choose.
# 7,164:
5:14 pm PST, Nov 18,Willow Hill, Oregon
# 7,163:
4:49 pm PST, Nov 18,Natasha Lau, California
Do you want to pay for abortions or do you want to pay for welfare for single moms? It's one or the other.
I am personally against abortion but believe it is wrong to enforce my beliefs on others. Just as I would not like my choice not to have an abortion taken away from me, we must respect others' right to decide for themselves what is right.
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4:32 pm PST, Nov 18,Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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4:32 pm PST, Nov 18,Teresa Williams, Florida
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4:27 pm PST, Nov 18,Sourena Parham, Massachusetts
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4:25 pm PST, Nov 18,Jillian OConnor, California
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3:27 pm PST, Nov 18,Betty J Van Wicklen, New York
My religious belief does not preclude abortion, and I am one of many. Since I'm guaranteed religious freedom, what right does the State or any group have to deny me that right? I think it's a far greater sin to bring an unwanted child into the world, whose expenses through life may well need to be paid for by the State, and whose spiritual education will definitely not be given by the State! Besides, I'm sick of our laws discriminating against me solely on my reproductive sex organs. If medicare pays for viagra, why should I be denied an abortion or my health insurance rates be higher than a man's?
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3:21 pm PST, Nov 18,Name not displayed, North Carolina
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3:13 pm PST, Nov 18,Lisa Donaldson, Utah
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3:07 pm PST, Nov 18,Karisa Cotter, Arkansas
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2:55 pm PST, Nov 18,Peter Schwarz, Florida
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2:19 pm PST, Nov 18,Alesia Febus, New York
Our representatives in Washington are hard at work these days on health care reform legislation. We must make sure they don't make any more concessions to the anti-choice pressure they're feeling now.
