Monday, September 19, 2011

With seven billion of us now roaming our groaning planet, you may agree that we need birth control more than ever

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Only two weeks left to protect a victory for women's health.
Don't let anti-women theocrats roll back the biggest advancement for women's health in a decade.
Take Action!

Show the Department of Health and Human Services that support for contraceptives at no cost far outweighs any opposition from the right. Submit a comment to HHS in support of making birth control free to women.

Take action now!

Dear James,

During the Obama administration, we've seen many attacks on women's rights — and activists have been busy pushing back against threats to women's health like the Stupak amendment.

But thanks to pressure from activists like you, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is poised to make the biggest advancement for women's health in over a decade.

Secretary Sebelius has announced preliminary plans to designate birth control for women as "preventive care," which under the new health care law will make birth control available at no additional cost to all women in the United States with insurance.

We need to show support for these vital new rules.

Click here to submit a comment to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in support of its decision to make birth control free to women. There are only two weeks left before the official public comment period closes.

Anti-woman forces including the influential United States Conference of Catholic Bishops adamantly oppose this historic advancement for women's health.

Even on issues as benign and medically accepted as these proposed rules, they and other anti-women theocrats on the right are up in arms because they literally oppose birth control.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, a representative of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, responded with fierce resistance to the HHS announcement of the proposed rules, saying, "Pregnancy is not a disease, and fertility is not a pathological condition to be suppressed by any means technically possible."1

And we know they will not stop their crusade against women's right to reproductive health.

We have to show our overwhelming support for these new rules. Submit a comment to HHS in support of their decision to make birth control free to women.

It's a critical time to take another stand against the anti-choice forces and ensure that the Obama administration and congress will continue to take the side of women's health.

In the next few months, extreme right-wing legislators will try to cut funding for programs that protect women's health like Title IX funding, Medicare and Medicaid.

This public comment period is the perfect opportunity to show congress that the number of supporters for policies that advance women's health far outweighs the extremist, anti-woman forces.

But we have to hurry — there are only two weeks left for us to show our support.

Show congress and the Obama Administration that women's rights are more important than any opposition from the right. Submit a comment to HHS in support of their decision to make birth control free to women.

Thank you for standing up for women's health.

Ali Rozell, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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