Per Raising Women's Voices for the health care we need!
http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/
The Senate HELP Committee has started work on its health care reform bill - and they need to hear from you. The bill represents a giant step forward in our efforts to get quality, affordable health care for all women, but some Senators have introduced amendments that would be very damaging to women's health and that would advance political agendas over accurate science and medicine. A few examples of what these damaging amendments propose:
Require doctors to disseminate information that is not supported by science to women seeking pregnancy-related care, including abortion.
Require parental consent for students who get services at school-based clinics.
Violate patients' rights and erode clinicians' duties to their patients by encroaching on the right to receive health services and information, including contraception, fertility services and other health care necessary to meet established medical standards of care.
Impose barriers to health care for immigrants by requiring that they be citizens for five years before participating in certain programs.
Establish a program to promote crisis pregnancy centers that withhold full, accurate information about options from women facing an unintended pregnancy, and in some cases use deceptive, inaccurate and even intimindating tactics to influence their decisions.
Scale back substantially the effort to strengthen and restore authority to the Office of Women's Health that we depend on to provide leadership, expertise and guidance on women's health concerns within the Department of Health & Human Services.
TAKE ACTION Please urge the members of the Senate HELP Committee to vote against all amendments that threaten women's health. Contact them as soon as possible, so your thoughts may be considered during the mark-up process.
Email your comments to help_comments@help.senate.gov and we encourage copying your own congressional delegation on the message as well. In addition, please copy
info@raisingwomensvoices.net so we know how many of you have raised your voices for quality, affordable health care that meets women's needs!
Let them know that you want their leadership in establishing quality, affordable health care for all women and that you want to see the bill go forward without damaging amendments like the ones being offered by Senators Coburn, Enzi and Hatch.
If you have questions or comments, please email info@raisingwomensvoices.net. Remember to act quickly - now is the time to raise our voices and let the Senators know what we need.
Description of Policy Options
Expanding Health Care Coverage:
Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/051109%20Health%20Care%20Description%20of%20Policy%20Options.pdf
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