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How to Support Pro-Both?
For the moment, at least, pro-both is just an idea.
There's no campaign to join, and no organization to donate money to.
Perhaps there should be.
Word of Mouth
If you like the idea, and would like to support it,
then the thing to do is talk about it.
Use the word.
Use the ideas.
Bring them into abortion discussions.
Post about them in your blog.
That's how you feed an idea.
Legislation
There has been a series of legislative initiatives along pro-both
lines that are worth supporting.
The most recent incarnation is known as the
Prevention First Act of 2005
(S.844,
H.R.1709).
It is an omnibus bill which
- provides funding for family planning services,
- allows states to expand Medicaid coverage of family planning services
to people with incomes up to double the poverty level,
- requires health plans to cover contraceptives to the
same extent they cover other perscription drugs,
- funds public education programs on emergency contraceptives,
- requires that hospitals provide information about emergency
contraceptives to rape victims,
- provides funds for teenage pregnancy prevention programs, and
- replaces the restriction on some federally funded programs
that bars them from giving any information about contraceptives
except failure rates with a requirement that they include full
information.
Write your senators and congressmen in support of these bills.
Thanks.
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