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