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Congress: Protect Servicewomen's Reproductive Choices
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
Why are women serving our country denied access to reproductive choices? Women in the armed services deserve the highest standard of care, and that includes access to Plan B contraceptives.
About 350,000 women currently serve in the U.S. military, making up almost 15 percent of all active-duty personnel. But federal law does little to protect their reproductive rights. Not only are servicewomen banned from accessing abortion care at military medical facilities, many can't even obtain emergency contraception at their base pharmacy.
Timely access to emergency contraception is important for military women, especially since nearly 3,000 incidents of sexual assault were reported in the military last year – an approximate 24 percent increase from 2005.
Congress has an opportunity to improve health care for women in the military with a bill sponsored by lawmakers in both parties and on both sides of the choice issue, supporting the addition of Plan B to the list of medications that must be stocked at every military health-care facility.
A vote could take place this week and the vote is going to be very close.
Take action today to defend the rights of those who defend us by telling Congress to pass the Compassionate Care for Servicewoman Act.
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We signed the “Congress: Protect Servicewomen's Reproductive Choices” petition!
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it's only fair!
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These brave women should have every access to healthcare they need, whatever it may be.
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Those brave enough to serve our country deserve the best care we can provide for them. It shames me to think that my county can't provide Plan B for its many brave service women. They've made such sacrifices for their country and we should support them and make sure they get the best medical care possible.
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What does it say about a country that abandons the people who fight for it?
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They deserve the best.
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We should improve their health care because they serve our country and deserve the best care possible!
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This is a very IMPORTANT subject. There should be NO need for it - there should be upholding of high conduct and high punishments, thereby decreasing assaults in the military to begin with.
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This does not affect just the women in the service protecting our country but the wives and daughters of our men serving overseas as well. We should have the same protection and availablity to emergency medications as the rest.
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This is an outrage! How can the military/government in good conscience tell a woman what to do with her body? This is a perfect example of the male dominated hierarchy that must overpower and control all aspects of woman, especially her ability to choose whether to give birth or not. We are deevolving!
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I will be serving my country in a few years and I do want to be protected as a woman.
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