More and more women are being denied their doctor-prescribed birth control pills across the country.
As many as 20 states have laws on the books that put a pharmacists personal views above a womans right to safe and legal birth control making it even easier for pharmacists to deny women access to prescription contraceptives. Birth control is basic health care for the vast majority of American women, and no third party should be able to stop a woman from taking responsibility for her reproductive health!
That's why a bipartisan group of pro-choice members of Congress - Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), and others have introduced a bill to ensure that women can get their birth control prescriptions filled - without intimidation, inconvenience, or delay. Under the Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act (ALPhA), pharmacies would be responsible for filling womens birth control prescriptions even if a pharmacist refuses for personal reasons.
Please send a letter to your federal lawmakers urging them to support this bill. Help us put a stop to the far-rights anti-birth control agenda by taking action today!
We signed the “Tell Congress to protect your access to birth control!” petition!
# 20,201:
10:35 pm PDT, Apr 11,Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands
Free contraception for all!
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9:50 pm PDT, Apr 3,Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
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6:45 pm PDT, Apr 3,Laura Zanoli, Italy
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2:36 am PDT, Mar 22,Art Deco, Maine
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9:11 pm PDT, Mar 21,Jennifer Lachney, Louisiana
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2:24 pm PDT, Mar 15,BiLL Fowlie, Maine
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1:08 pm PDT, Mar 15,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
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12:43 am PDT, Mar 15,Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
There's no way I'm going to let some religious nuts push their beliefs on to me, my body, other women's bodies, or any future children. Our bodies are OUR'S, and our's alone. It's none of their business whether we have children or not.
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9:43 pm PST, Feb 26,Kim Armstrong, Florida
Government should stay out of women's wombs. Birth control is legal and no one should be impeding women's access to it.
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4:33 pm PST, Feb 26,Name not displayed, Colorado
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11:55 am PST, Feb 13,Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
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4:26 pm PST, Feb 8,John Feaster, Florida
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10:29 am PST, Jan 30,Rev Thom robinson, Florida
We claim to be a free country, yet our oppressive government is forcing women to use unsafe and possibly illegal methods to achieve legitimate ends. The Bush administration and it's policies are destroying our American image inside and out of these United States!
# 20,188:
7:28 pm PST, Jan 16,VICTORIA MARY STONG / COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, New York
BECAUSE WOMEN SHOULD A L W A Y S BE ASSISTED IN HAVING ALL OPTIONS WHEN DECIDING ON HEALTH ISSUES!
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2:50 am PST, Jan 1,Sadia Furhad, Texas
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8:26 pm PST, Dec 15,Nissa Guest, California
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6:16 pm PST, Nov 23,ShirleyAnn Shaw, California
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6:47 am PST, Nov 9,Rebecca Hazard, New York
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5:49 pm PDT, Oct 28,Brianna Wynkoop, Texas
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7:49 am PDT, Oct 22,Nell Roberts, Colorado
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11:22 am PDT, Oct 12,Jillian Michalek, Florida
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3:01 pm PDT, Oct 3,Kimberly Drechsler, Illinois
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8:45 am PDT, Sep 26,Payton Strzalka, Florida
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11:34 am PDT, Sep 18,Kyna Crain, Montana
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12:31 am PDT, Sep 10,Kaytie Irvine, California
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6:32 pm PDT, Sep 9,Kathy Hawkins, North Carolina
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10:13 am PDT, Sep 7,Margaret Gotsch, New York
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6:36 pm PDT, Sep 2,Name not displayed, California
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1:57 pm PDT, Aug 18,Cheryl Atwell, Illinois
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12:43 am PDT, Aug 18,Chuck Dowe, Massachusetts
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9:30 pm PDT, Aug 16,Kalee Prue, Connecticut
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7:45 pm PDT, Aug 11,Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky
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4:49 pm PDT, Aug 8,Roxie Schliesmann, Wisconsin
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5:31 pm PDT, Jul 23,Dana Szemereta, North Carolina
