Help STOP the D.C. Abortion Ban!

by Jen Nedeau · 2009-07-09 14:25:00 UTC
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Take action and sign this pledge now to stop the D.C. Abortion Ban! We need your help phone banking for two days next week.

Here are the details:

What: Phone banks to help end the D.C. Abortion Ban

When: Tuesday, July 14, and Wednesday, July 15
6:00 -8:30 p.m. (please arrive 5-10 minutes prior to start time)

Where: NARAL Pro-Choice America
1156 15th Street NW, Suite 700

Metro: Farragut North on the red line
McPherson Square on the blue/orange line

You MUST RSVP to Becca Guerra at RGuerra@prochoicamerica.org

And here's a little background on the legislation from NARAL:

The House Appropriations Committee is taking action on a bill tonight that allocates funds for Washington, D.C.-and there is good news for America's pro-choice majority.

The bill follows President Obama's lead (and NARAL Pro-Choice America's recommendation) to lift the ban on D.C.'s ability to use locally raised funds for abortion services. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the city's elected representative in Congress, fully supports this measure.

As the D.C. Abortion Fund can attest, this ban's effect on women is devastating. Women have had to sell their cars, get high-interest predatory loans (not even an option anymore), pawn wedding rings or other jewelry, sell their children's toys, go without

electricity, or even risk eviction-all to pay for the abortion care they need.

Read many more heart-breaking stories for examples of what can happen when access to affordable reproductive health care is out of reach for women.

Historians will note that an anti-choice Congress imposed the ban 15 years ago-and anti-abortion politicians are not going to let this symbol of interference in D.C.'s local affairs go down without a fight.

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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