Daily Archives: 01/22/2017
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
 |
|||||||||||||
 |
|
||||||||||||
Share this:
Access to Abortion Shouldn’t Depend on Your Zip Code
 |
| Politicians don’t belong in your doctor’s office. Yet extremist lawmakers across the country are interfering with personal medical decisions by pushing laws that limit access to critical reproductive health services, including abortion. Since 2010, states have passed more than 300 of these restrictions on abortion.
Earlier this year the Supreme Court’s ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt reaffirmed the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion — and in doing so, rolled back a harmful state law designed to limit access to abortion. Now we need Congress to do its part to protect women’s health.
Access to Abortion Shouldn’t Depend on Your Zip CodeUrge your representative to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act to prevent future attacks on abortion.
The Supreme Court’s Whole Woman’s Health decision was a major step to prevent state laws that restrict abortion access, but we know that extremist politicians won’t stop their attacks unless Congress acts. The Women’s Health Protection Act would prevent politicians from interfering with personal medical decisions, which is why it’s so important we push this law forward now. Send your message to Congress: Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. Thanks for everything you do to protect reproductive freedom. Sincerely, |
Share this:
Tell Congress to Protect Women’s Health – reminder
Even after the Supreme Court recently affirmed the right to safe, legal abortion, some politicians keep inventing new ways to restrict our access to reproductive health care.
Meet their latest attempt: a bill that would allow employers, insurance companies, and hospitals to discriminate against patients seeking critical reproductive health services, including abortion.
They’re calling it “conscience protection.” We’re calling it out for what it really is: an attack on access to abortion that could harm women’s health.
Health Care Refusals Harm Patients
Tell Congress to vote against the misleadingly named Conscience Protection Act.
| TAKE ACTION |
Refusing to provide health care can have serious emotional, physical, and financial consequences for patients, endangering their health and possibly their lives. Some hospitals and doctors have already denied and delayed care to women experiencing miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. Why? Because they oppose any medical intervention that ends a pregnancy, even when necessary to save a woman’s life.
The bill is scheduled to go to the House floor for a votetomorrow. Make sure your voice is heard in time: Tell your representative to oppose the so-called Conscience Protection Act.
Refusals based on providers’ personal or religious beliefs undermine the trust that people place in their providers. The Conscience Protection Act is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to make it more difficult — if not impossible — to have access to comprehensive reproductive health care services.
Send an urgent message to Congress: vote NO on this dangerous bill.
Thank you for taking action.
Sincerely,
Fatima Goss Graves
Senior Vice President for Program
National Women’s Law Center
Be a Seed for Change 
You must be logged in to post a comment.