Birth Control - It's Prevention!

Access to birth control for millions of women is under attack.In its final days the Bush administration is drafting a new regulation that deliberately confuses the definitions of contraception and abortion and could seriously jeopardize women's access to birth control. The new rule would allow doctors and health-care companies to deny women birth control. NARAL Pro-Choice America helped break this story in the media and, with your help, we can stop this attack on birth control in its tracks. Purchase your “Birth Control - It’s Prevention!” pack of pills for $10 and help us show the administration just how ridiculous this regulation would be! When you contribute, we will send your symbolic “Birth Control - It’s Prevention!” pill pack to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- which is where this egregious rule has surfaced. It’s outrageous that the Bush administration wants to block access to birth control -- which is one of the best ways to prevent unintended pregnancies. Since federal regulations don’t need approval from Congress, the administration was apparently hoping to sneak it through without you and me finding out about it. The proposed regulation is an eleventh-hour attack before Bush’s far right appointees leave office. If enacted it would:
Allow hospitals, HMOs and health plans to refuse to provide services or make referrals for birth control.
Undermine state laws that require hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape survivors … ensure pharmacies stock and fill women’s prescriptions for birth control … and mandate health plans that cover prescription medications to include birth control in their plans.
Affect Medicaid and Title X family-planning programs by enabling staff at clinics to refuse contraception to women.
Buy your "Birth Control - It’s Prevention!" pack today and tell the Bush administration we will not stand for this attack on reproductive freedom. Our goal is 1,000 packs by July 31st.
Together, we will stop this assault on birth control.
Sincerely,

Nancy Keenan, PresidentNARAL Pro-Choice America

Bush attacks women's access to birth control

We found out some truly disturbing news.
Just hours ago The New York Times reported that the Bush administration is proposing a new regulation that could discourage doctors and health-care clinics from providing birth control to women who need it.
Pro-birth-control members of Congress are calling on the Bush administration to reconsider this terrible idea. Please let your members of Congress know that you strongly oppose this attack on birth control!
This proposed regulation deliberately confuses the definitions of contraception and abortion and could seriously jeopardize state laws and policies that protect women’s access to birth control. For example, state laws that require hospitals to provide sexual-assault survivors with access to emergency contraception could be jeopardized.
This issue makes it all the more clear why we must elect pro-choice Sen. Barack Obama as our next president. Sen. John McCain has repeatedly voted against allowing women to obtain birth control and there’s no doubt he will carry on Bush’s anti-choice legacy. Sen. Obama has a consistent record in strong support of women’s access to contraception and is the chief sponsor of legislation to make birth control more affordable.
Take action today. Don’t let the Bush administration’s attacks on birth control go unanswered.
Thank you for remaining vigilant against the Bush administration and taking action today.


Nancy KeenanPresident, NARAL Pro-Choice America

Birth Control: Don't Let McCain Take It Away

We must keep the momentum going as we get ever closer to the election. I am counting on you, today. Please join NARAL Pro-Choice America immediately and help us ensure that the anti-choice, anti-birth control candidate, John McCain, does not become president.

Click here to become a member of NARAL Pro-Choice America today.

Dottye, in honor of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, our goal is to recruit 73 new members each week until Election Day. Be one of this week’s 73 new members - you will be making us stronger both politically and financially, enabling us to do our work at every level to protect the right to choose.

Pro-choice Republican and Independent women - key blocs of swing voters in this year’s election - are less likely to support John McCain for president when they learn he has repeatedly voted against allowing women to obtain birth control. What concerns these voters even more about McCain’s record is that John McCain voted to ban abortion for many women, even in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman's life is in danger.

It’s critical that we contact the almost 200,000 pro-choice women we identified in 2004 and 2006 in battleground states who will be this year's swing voters and tell them about the threats to choice we can expect if John McCain picks up where George W. Bush left off.

Become a member of NARAL Pro-Choice America today to protect choice from McCain and elect pro-choice Sen. Barack Obama.

Not yet convinced to join? Look at McCain’s rigid, anti-choice track record. What hasn’t he already tried to take away from women?

• Birth control? McCain is against a woman’s access to it, and he voted more than 20 times to block it.
• Health-care coverage? McCain opposes equal access to it. He voted to eliminate Title X and deny millions of women basic health-care services ranging from birth control to breast cancer screenings.
• The right to choose? McCain won't protect it. In fact, he's voted against choice 125 times out of 130 opportunities since 1983. And he said Roe v. Wade should be overturned!

Join NARAL Pro-Choice America for $10 or more today to be one of the 73 who will help protect the liberties and access to basic health care that McCain would deny to women.

Please act on this opportunity to join today as part of our Membership Drive for Choice and be one of this week’s 73 for choice. The future of women’s reproductive freedom is hanging in the balance!

Sincerely,

Nancy Keenan, President
NARAL Pro-Choice America

P.S. Every dollar we can bring in at this point is critical to defeating John McCain’s bid for the presidency. Help NARAL Pro-Choice America recruit 73 new members each week until Election Day! Please forward this message to your friends and family members to urge them to join today! If you are already a member, I ask that you please consider making an additional gift to help our fight for choice.