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National Youth Call-In Day: Stop Congress' War on Women!

In just two months, the new Congress has proposed the most dangerous legislative assault on women's health care in American history.

We need your help! Advocates for Youth, Choice USA, and Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom have joined together for today's National Youth Call-In Day. Together, we can make sure that Congress receives thousands of calls TODAY telling them to stop their War on Women.

It's easy. All of you have to do is dial 1-888-600-5774 and ask for your Representative. Not sure who that is? Click here to find out!

TELL THEM:

1. Vote NO on the Continuing Resolution!

Click through for more important messages for your Representative! 

 

 

Congress is considering a budget proposal — called a "continuing resolution" — that eliminates all funding for Title X family planning programs AND cuts all funding for President Obama's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative. The bill also targets international family planning, eliminating funds for the United Nations Population Fund, cutting family planning programs around the globe, and reinstating the "Global Gag Rule." Tell your Representative: "Vote NO on the continuing resolution. We cannot cut Title X, international family planning, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative funding. Women and young people's health are at stake!"

2. Vote NO on new laws to restrict access to abortion care.

House Republicans have proposed more than a dozen new laws attacking abortion rights and women's access to abortion care. Two bills — the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" (HR 3) and the "Protect Life Act" (HR 358) — will be up for a vote very soon. These bills are designed to limit low-income women's and young people's access to abortion services, make it harder for employers and insurance companies to offer abortion coverage, and would give anti-choice doctors the ability to refuse to perform emergency abortion services even if the mother would be left to die as a result. Tell your Representative: "Vote no on HR 3 and HR 358. Congress should not be targeting women and young people with laws that make legal medical services harder to access and leave their lives at risk."

When they answer you can say:

"Hi. My name is ____ and I'm from ____ (insert city or school). I would like to tell Representative ____ to vote against the continuing resolution that would zero out vital Title X family planning, international family planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative funding. I would also like the Representative to vote no on HR 3 and HR 358, two pieces of legislation that would severely limit women's access to abortion, a legal medical service.

Members were elected to work on jobs and the economy — NOT to promote the culture wars. You cannot vote to limit access to abortion while zeroing out funding for services that prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place. Vote no on the continuing resolution and HR 3 and HR 358."

Stand up to Congress' War on Women! Post this alert to Facebook and Twitter and ask your friends and followers to make calls too! Women, youth, and families are NOT some partisan political target. We have to let our Representatives know — loud and clear — that these dangerous attacks will not be tolerated.

I just made my call. Will you?

Julia Reticker-Flynn
Youth Activist Network Coordinator
Advocates for Youth

P.S. If you've already called your Representative, why stop now? Congressional offices keep a tally on both sides of every issue. Call every day — it only takes a minute! We cannot let our elected
 
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