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Got an e-mail from Planned Parenthood today:
Title X is America's family planning program. Planned Parenthood gives out birth control (and I help prevent abortions by contributing to Planned Parenthood on a monthly basis and you could too) but more than that, it provides cancer screening, testing for high blood pressure, referals for specialized health care, and testing for HIV and other STDs. It is literally the only medical care that some poor women get.
If you care, there should still be time to send an actual paper letter to your representative, which is what I will be doing. Paper letters get the most attention, then phone calls, then e-mails. You can get the address of your Representative here at Vote Smart. If you're not sure your letter will arrive in time, send a letter *and* call. If it's down to the wire, sign the petition here, but be sure to fill in your address so it goes to the right rep (it may come up with mine since the e-mail came to me.)
There are an awful lot of people telling ugly lies about Planned Parenthood recently. Let's counter that with some real voices from real people like you and me.
Next week, your representative in Congress will decide whether to end Title X family planning funding for local Planned Parenthood health centers.
Title X is America's family planning program. Planned Parenthood gives out birth control (and I help prevent abortions by contributing to Planned Parenthood on a monthly basis and you could too) but more than that, it provides cancer screening, testing for high blood pressure, referals for specialized health care, and testing for HIV and other STDs. It is literally the only medical care that some poor women get.
If you care, there should still be time to send an actual paper letter to your representative, which is what I will be doing. Paper letters get the most attention, then phone calls, then e-mails. You can get the address of your Representative here at Vote Smart. If you're not sure your letter will arrive in time, send a letter *and* call. If it's down to the wire, sign the petition here, but be sure to fill in your address so it goes to the right rep (it may come up with mine since the e-mail came to me.)
There are an awful lot of people telling ugly lies about Planned Parenthood recently. Let's counter that with some real voices from real people like you and me.
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Date: 2011-02-10 03:00 pm (UTC)The sheer raw hatred that is coming from conservatism of our parents generation astonishes me, even though I foresaw it. So much negativity was drawn out of people--there was nothing to contain or transform it. We had hoped for Obama, but he failed out of hand. So we wait, and work, and hope.
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Date: 2011-02-10 03:10 pm (UTC)Do these people have *no* female human in their lives they give a damn about?
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 05:35 am (UTC)Humans are sapient apes, and this can make a difference, but when many people are scared, and wondering where their food is going to come from, and how they are going keep their homes, some forget their sapience. And so many conservatives, in so many ways, act like teenagers who have never learned better: people who are still rebelling against the rules their parents made, and claiming that now they are grown up they need abide by no rules.
Ramble, ramble...hope this makes some sense. Still gotta write that letter.