Urge the Senate to Put Prevention First!
While Republican leaders are fast-tracking a bill that would endanger young women's health, family-planning supporters are promoting policies that will actually help women by preventing unintended pregnancy and reducing the need for abortion.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has offered a bill that would expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce infection with sexually transmitted disease, and reduce the number of abortions.
Specifically Reids Prevention First Act (S. 2336) would:
Reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and make abortion less necessary by ensuring that women have access to birth control, including the morning-after pill;
End insurance discrimination against women by ensuring that health insurance plans offer the same level of coverage for contraception as they do for other prescription drugs;
Ensure that federally-funded sex education programs include medically accurate information about contraception;
Urge your senators to focus on the areas of common ground and become a co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act today!
Dear [your Senator],
As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to become a co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act (S.2336) introduced by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
This legislation is designed to help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion by ensuring that women have access to birth control pills and emergency contraceptives. Regardless of our points of view in the abortion debate, we should all agree that women deserve access to these important means of preventing unintended pregnancies.
Please co-sponsor this important legislation.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my views.
Sincerely,
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