Last week, hundreds of you took action, calling your representatives and asking them to vote NO on the budget "continuing resolution" and to vote NO on dangerous anti-choice legislation. 

Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass the continuing resolution this weekend, cutting funding for sex education and family planning in the U.S. and around the world. The next step is for the continuing resolution to head over to the Senate. Meanwhile, the two anti-abortion bills (the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" and the "Protect Life Act") are priorities for House Republicans and will be coming up for votes soon.

Your Senators and Representatives are at home — and the timing couldn't be better! Members of Congress are returning to your districts to meet with and hear from constituents. This is the perfect opportunity to let them know — in person — that you oppose cuts to family planning and new laws that attack reproductive rights. 

Yesterday, hundreds of you took action, calling your representatives and asking them to vote NO on the budget "continuing resolution" and to vote NO on dangerous anti-choice legislation. 

Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass the continuing resolution this weekend, cutting funding for sex education and family planning in the U.S. and around the world. The next step is for the continuing resolution to head over to the Senate. Meanwhile, the two anti-abortion bills (the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" and the "Protect Life Act") are priorities for House Republicans and will be coming up for votes soon.

Today, Congress is heading home.

Starting today, your Senators and Representatives are traveling home — and the timing couldn't be better!Members of Congress are returning to your districts to meet with and hear from constituents. This is the perfect opportunity to let them know — in person — that you oppose cuts to family planning and new laws that attack reproductive rights. 

by Sarah Audelo, Advocates for Youth; Angela Baxter, Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom; and Carmen Berkley, Choice USA

Two young people walk into a congressional briefing on proposed restrictions to abortion access and funding. They see their peers, their friends sprinkled throughout the crowd. The briefing begins. Expert after expert shares the devastating impact these restrictions would have on various communities, but there is no mention of youth. So, one of them asks: "What impact would these restrictions have on young people?" Not one of the "experts" could answer.

The punchline of this sad-but-true tale was deafening silence — and it's no laughing matter. As a group, a community, a vulnerable population, young people and our needs have continually been left out of the debate around reproductive and sexual health and rights. Make no mistake: together with communities of color and low-income communities, young people have the most to lose if the heinous No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HR 3) and Protect Life Act (HR 358) — popularly known as the "Stupak on Steroids" agenda — become law.

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!

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