harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/05/91)
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Topic 49 Urgent Appeal*Abortions*Supreme Crt
peacenet pn.alerts 4:23 pm Jun 4, 1991
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Subject: Urgent Appeal*Abortions*Supreme Crt
>From ckruger Tue Jun 4 09:08 PDT 1991
With the recent Supreme Court decision in Rust v. Sullivan,
prohibiting doctors in Federally funded family planning clinics
from discussing abortion with their patients, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and the National Organization for Women
have begun campaigns to overturn the ruling through the passage
of two bills currently in Congress. The bills are "The Title X
Pregnancy Counseling Act" and "The Freedom of Choice Act".
It is imperative that all of us who believe in the right to
choose and control our bodies support these campaigns both with
our activism as well as financially! In addition Planned
Parenthood has indicated they may try to completely forgo Federal
funding at their clinics. If they do, they will need our
grassroots support to find new sources of funding, so they may
continue to offer family planning services (including abortion
counseling) to all women - especially poor and impoverished
women.
The following is an excerpt from an urgent appeal issued by NOW,
followed by the addresses of both NOW and Planned Parenthood:
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The National Organization for Women has launched an EMERGENCY
MOBILIZATION TO SAVE ABORTION RIGHTS that "targets two critical
pieces of Federal legislation -- The Title X Pregnancy Counseling
Act that requires clinics to give women COMPLETE and ACCURATE
information about abortion ... and The Freedom of Choice Act that
provides women in every state with the ROE v. WADE guarantee
regardless of what courts or state legislatures do.
Our EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION TO SAVE ABORTION RIGHTS has four key
steps:
FIRST, we're calling on all NOW activists to organize
demonstrations, pickets and other DIRECT ACTIONS at
Congressional offices around the country demanding
passage of these crucial Federal bills.
SECOND, we're gearing up our activists and
supporters for a massive, grassroots IN-DISTRICT
LOBBYING AND ACTION CAMPAIGN on Senators and members of
Congress when they are home during the July break.
THIRD, we're reactivating our PHONE BANKS in cities
and communities all across the country to enlist help
in this all-out effort from the hundreds of thousands
of activists who marched and rallied for abortion
rights in Washington D.C in 1989.
FOURTH, We're flooding the office of House Speaker Tom
Foley with POST CARDS (available from NOW) FROM VOTERS
demanding that The Title X Pregnancy Counseling Act be
scheduled for a vote immediately -- before the July
break!
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To contribute or find out how you can help, contact your local
chapter of NOW, or Planned Parenthood, or at their national
offices listed below:
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
810 Seventh Avenue
P.O. Box 4447 Phone: (212) 541-7800
New York, NY 10164-0359
National Organization for Women
1000 16th Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 96825 Phone: (202) 331-0066
Washington, D.C. 20036
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