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Stand Up for Prevention and Public Health!
- signatures:
- deadline: July 2, 2009
- signature goal: 25,000
- Target: U.S. Congress
- Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
But it's not a done deal yet. Your members of Congress will be hearing from the anti-choice radicals; make sure they hear from you, too! Please fill out the form below, and make sure your voice gets heard.
Dear [Decision maker],
I am writing to you about two important funding decisions that will be made in the FY '09 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.
Title X, the nation's cornerstone family-planning program, has been woefully underfunded for years, jeopardizing basic health care for five million low-income, uninsured families. For many women, particularly those who cannot afford private health insurance, Title X clinics provide their only source of basic health care, such as birth control and cancer screenings. The House has proposed a $15 million boost for Title X, and I urge you to support this increase.
[Your comment here]
By contrast, federal funding for "abstinence-only" programs is a waste of taxpayer dollars. The failed "abstinence-only" policy has contributed to - not lessened - a public-health crisis in which one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection. Leading experts universally endorse comprehensive, medically accurate, age-appropriate sex-education programs, not the failed "abstinence-only" approach. Funding for these programs should be ended altogether, and the Senate bill's cut of $28.6 million is an important step in the right direction. I hope you will support it.
As this bill continues to move through the legislative process, I strongly urge you to choose public health over ideology - by investing more in Title X and spending less on "abstinence-only" programs.
Sincerely,
[Your name here]
I am writing to you about two important funding decisions that will be made in the FY '09 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.
Title X, the nation's cornerstone family-planning program, has been woefully underfunded for years, jeopardizing basic health care for five million low-income, uninsured families. For many women, particularly those who cannot afford private health insurance, Title X clinics provide their only source of basic health care, such as birth control and cancer screenings. The House has proposed a $15 million boost for Title X, and I urge you to support this increase.
[Your comment here]
By contrast, federal funding for "abstinence-only" programs is a waste of taxpayer dollars. The failed "abstinence-only" policy has contributed to - not lessened - a public-health crisis in which one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection. Leading experts universally endorse comprehensive, medically accurate, age-appropriate sex-education programs, not the failed "abstinence-only" approach. Funding for these programs should be ended altogether, and the Senate bill's cut of $28.6 million is an important step in the right direction. I hope you will support it.
As this bill continues to move through the legislative process, I strongly urge you to choose public health over ideology - by investing more in Title X and spending less on "abstinence-only" programs.
Sincerely,
[Your name here]
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