In his first days in office, President-elect Obama can begin to restore reproductive freedom for women by repealing the global gag rule. It’s time to end this destructive policy that has caused so much suffering among the world’s poorest women. And you can help!
The global gag rule canceled funding for many overseas health clinics, forcing them to cut their staff, limit services, and sometimes close their doors entirely. In many cases, these health clinics were the only local source of birth control and prenatal care for women!
This outrageous policy severely limits women's access to family-planning services, which can lead to tragic results -- higher rates of unintended and high-risk pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and maternal deaths.
President-elect Obama can reverse this policy and release the funds for family planning overseas to enable women worldwide to have access to the comprehensive health care they deserve, including birth control.
In addition to asking the incoming administration to reverse the global gag rule, we can also work to increase our investment in family-planning here at home though the Title X program and to reverse the Bush administration’s last minute Federal Refusal Rule, which could deny women access to birth control and abortion care. But it will take your advocacy and your financial support for our work to succeed.
The incoming president and new Congress have many pressing issues to attend to; with your help, we will be sure that women’s access to affordable reproductive-health care is among these issues.
In these challenging financial times for our country and across the globe, it is all the more important to protect women’s health by ensuring they have access to one of the most basic services they need: family planning.
Will you help NARAL Pro-Choice America take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to repeal Bush’s destructive policies and restore our reproductive rights at every level?
Please donate now to help us protect choice for generations to come!
Women are counting on us, and we are counting on you. Please donate today.
My Best,
Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
PS: Even as we welcome our new pro-choice president to the White House, you can count on our most ardent anti-choice opponents not folding up their tents and leaving quietly. They will fight with all they have to cling to the gains they have made in the last eight years. Donate online today to help us jump-start our plans to encourage President-elect Obama to reverse Bush’s anti-choice legacy.
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