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Provide Real Reproductive Health Care Coverage for Low-Income Women

Target: Tommy Thompson, HHS Secretary; George W. Bush, President
Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America

On January 31, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed making embryos eligible for government-funded insurance under the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The proposal is the latest ploy in the Bush Administration’s ongoing stealth campaign to have government make abortions illegal. The proposal demonstrates the Administration’s commitment to the strategy of undermining a woman’s right to choose by ascribing legal rights to embryos.

Anti-choice, anti-family planning officials are driving the President's health care policy. This CHIP announcement is not a serious health care proposal. If it were, it would include low-income women as recipients for comprehensive health care.

Sign the petition below to tell the President and HHS Secretary Thompson that you oppose the extension of the CHIP program to embryos and to call on them to provide comprehensive health care, including prenatal care, to low-income women.

deadline: 2-15-2004
goal: 2,500

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We, the undersigned, oppose the Administration’s proposal to extend the CHIP program to embryos. Instead, we urge you to provide comprehensive health coverage to low-income women. This coverage would enhance women’s ability to determine when and whether to raise a family and would provide them with the prenatal care needed to support a healthy pregnancy.

We signed the “Provide Real Reproductive Health Care Coverage for Low-Income Women” petition!

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7:50 am PDT, Aug 1, Polly Odyssey, Missouri

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2:37 pm PDT, Jul 20, Dana Szemereta, North Carolina

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2:10 am PDT, Jul 13, Name not displayed, Florida

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10:15 pm PDT, Jun 27, Susan Provost, Oklahoma

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12:58 am PDT, Jun 9, Name not displayed, Japan

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5:37 am PDT, Jun 5, William Harper, Georgia

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5:30 am PDT, May 18, Stacey Nelson, Pennsylvania

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11:18 am PDT, May 17, Sara Boissonnault, New Hampshire

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7:55 am PDT, May 8, Erin A Mitchell, Nebraska

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9:41 pm PDT, May 5, Lynda LaSage, California
It's my Body. MY CHOICE! I have 2 daughters that I want to care for and protect. I want to know that no mater what they can do what is best for THEM.

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2:02 pm PDT, May 2, Jill Rumeliote, Minnesota

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3:08 am PDT, Apr 29, Tasha Chenoweth, California

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2:40 pm PDT, Apr 26, Carolyn Kettelhut, Colorado

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9:59 pm PDT, Apr 24, Pauline Houzard, Guadeloupe

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2:33 pm PDT, Apr 21, Melissa Bardwell, Washington

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11:06 am PDT, Apr 18, Scott Cady, Minnesota

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8:38 am PDT, Apr 17, Nicky Elizabeth, Maine

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1:09 am PDT, Apr 10, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

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7:37 pm PDT, Apr 2, Amity Smith, Florida

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6:50 am PDT, Mar 25, Susan Walker, California

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11:46 pm PDT, Mar 17, Lamargo Petersen, Canada
I wish to see all women of the world[planet earth] receive the medical care they need no matter what reason, as women are the WOMB of the future.

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1:02 pm PST, Feb 28, Stephanie Soquet, Virginia

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1:34 pm PST, Feb 26, Bobbie Straley, New Mexico

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5:24 am PST, Feb 19, Name not displayed, New York

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2:37 am PST, Feb 7, Delores Carr, California
Health care is sapposed to be about caring for those in need not pushing agendas.

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7:14 pm PST, Feb 1, Patricia Gray, Ohio

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12:07 am PST, Feb 1, Junelle Quent, California

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1:59 pm PST, Jan 25, Name not displayed, New York

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5:14 am PST, Jan 24, Leslie Bemis, Massachusetts

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9:47 pm PST, Jan 22, F.I.T ANGELS, Canada

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9:11 am PST, Jan 16, Michelle Smith, Tennessee

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12:36 pm PST, Jan 13, C. Romanelli, Illinois

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7:25 pm PST, Jan 9, Kasey Gibson, Virginia

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12:06 pm PST, Jan 8, Wesley Vincent, New Mexico

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