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Oppose the Crawford Nomination: he's trying to block birth control, let's block him!
Target: U.S. SenatorsSponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
President Bush has nominated Lester Crawford, who helped block attempts to improve womens access to birth control, for the top job at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
During Crawford's tenure as acting commissioner, the FDA has ignored the recommendation from its own scientific and medical experts and blocked "Plan B", which is an application to make the morning-after pill available without a prescription.
Speak out with two Senate Democratic leaders, Patty Murray from Washington and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who are holding up his nomination until the FDA acts on the application.
Urge your senators to join Senators Murray and Clinton and oppose the Crawford nomination.
During Crawford's tenure as acting commissioner, the FDA has ignored the recommendation from its own scientific and medical experts and blocked "Plan B", which is an application to make the morning-after pill available without a prescription.
Speak out with two Senate Democratic leaders, Patty Murray from Washington and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who are holding up his nomination until the FDA acts on the application.
Urge your senators to join Senators Murray and Clinton and oppose the Crawford nomination.
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Government, keep your hands off women's bodies!
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The Supreme Court has up-held a woman's right to choose and this man wants to send us back to the stone age... where men "owned" their women's bodies... where we had no say of what happened to us. How many women died because they couldn't get medical attention? How many women were sent away or killed because the "shamed" their family? WOMEN have a right to their own bodies and to make decisions for themselves
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We don't need to go back to the days of "back-alley" abortions. They have to great a risk of infection and/or death. And, we certainly don't need to have unwanted babies being born with the possibility they may never get adopted.
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People are always talking about another unintended birth. We have an option to lower that rate and they try to take it away from us!? They can only blame themselfs if/when pregnancy rates get out of control.
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Women have rights to and women definitely should have control over their own bodies. Men do and women should have the same equal rights as men. Thank you for listening and protect my right to choose what is right for me.
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Why is it that nobody has any trouble with giving men access to Viagra, but giving women access to effective contraception presents big problems? Any guy who opposes emergency contraception for women ought not to be entrusted with an important public health position. What is President Bush thinking? Please do not support the Crawford nomination.
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Isn't Crawford a man? I think a woman should be the only voice allowed to take action againt birth control. Have we seen China before? Do we really want to have a child limit law? Abortions are not a healthy resort and by using birth control and the 'Morning after pill' before the sperm meets the egg we can prevent murder by abortion or child abuse or neglegence. Mr. Crawford should consider the outcome before making such a drastic desision!
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Mr. Crawford is totally unsuitabe for this position because he has tried to block womn's access to birth control.
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As a scientist, I am very disturbed that this administration keeps pushing ideology over good science. There are much better people for this job that will base their management on valid information. Please urge President Bush to reconsider.
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Woman have every right to choose their own freedom to birth control!
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He is just forcing his conservative religious ideology on others.
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How dare you try to take us back to the dark ages and block our control over our families. Birth control must be available to all who choose it.
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I do not believe that our Government has the right to tell other people how to act or behave. Unless, of course, the actions are damaging to another person.
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TO STOP CHILD ABUSE OF UNWANTED CHILDREN, MAKE BIRTH CONTROL AVAILABLE TO ALL WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS.THIS WOOULD ALSO INCLUDE RAPE VOCTUMS TOO SCARED TO REPORT THE RAPE! IN WA. SSTATE BABIES HAVE BEEN BEATEN AND KILLED BY BOYFRIENDS OF YOUNG WOMEN AND SOME KILLED BY YOUNG MOTHERS, AND SOME BY BABY SITTERS. YOU READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWS WEEKLY!! LETS GET BIRTH CONTROL OUT THERE FOR WOMEN.!!!!! OVER THE COUNTER !!!!!
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I myself use birth control. BUT did Crawford ever stop to think that women not only use birth control to prevent an unwanted pregnancy but to help aide them in certain diseases and complications? I for one have Poly-cystic ovarian syndrome and take birth control to help correct this problem. Did Crawford also stop to think that with birth control out of the way, we will end up with more homeless, poverty-striken children?! I think he needs to think twice about his decisions, just because he thinks that birth control is not a good idea, doesn't mean it is.
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If you've ever read about some of the scary things that women did around the turn of the century to end their pregnancies (you can find these articles in old medical journals), you would never want to disallow such a safe way of ensuring an unwanted pregnancy does not happen. Without the proper way to protect one's self, an unwanted pregnancy can result in health problems (if someone tries to take matters into their own hands) or children that are unwanted and unloved. Don't we have enough problems right now with how children are being raised? Let people decide when they are ready to parent a child the proper way!!
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I believe it's cruel to bring a child into the world that is unwanted.
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Do not let us go backwards!! Help u keep what we already have.
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The right to choose what is right for your family and keep the size of your family to a reasonable size and live within your means to keep everyone healthy and happy. Why put extra financial and psychogical pressure on families these days? Imagine the population explosion and its consequences! Protect our FAMILIES and the RIGHT CHOICE!
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Bush and his cronies want to keep women from having access to birth control methods and information, especially the "morning after" pill. Shame on all of them. If our roles were reversed and men had to worry about getting pregnant, you can bet they would be singing a different tune.
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keep yourpolitics out of my overies
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Religion and politics should not influence the FDA, Crawford would never been nominated by Bush if he was an unbiased person.
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This is crazy who would try to block birth control?? Personaly i get sick when i read the news paper and its talking about a child thats 2 hrs. old was found in a garbage can because some dumb teenager who was (obviously scared out of her mind of her parents)wraped it up in a plastic bag and threw it away like it was nothing and one day the thought of it would go away hello thats stupid so we have to do something about it and personaly birth control helps alot.And hello its 2005 women so have rights now.
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NO WAY should Crawford get the position with the FDA. Don't you get it Bush, the population is exploding and people are dying of hunger and malnourishment..............Dugh!!
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was women have rights too!
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There is enough UNWANTED CHILDREN IN THIS WORLD AND WE NEED TO PUT A STOP TO IT!!!! Birth control is the answer. I am tired of my tax dollars going to take care of things that noone in "CONTROL" of the situation is against..