RENWL

Now this is something worth getting off your duff over. We all know that public option for healthcare is just hovering on the edge waiting to become a reality. Problem is, it’s got this nasty fine print—the Stupak amendment— that says if you get pregnant and need to have an abortion (not us quite naturally but our female friends, fam ‘n such) you’re on your own; public option healthcare won’t be footin’ the bill.

That ain’t right. Can you imagine the many economically disadvantaged women of color who’d be driven to desperate measures to get an abortion? We see a rise in illegal abortion clinics and unnecessary deaths to women seeking abortions through these means and other unspeakable actions if this Stupak amendment remains intact in healthcare public option. There’s no justifiable reason to put these women at such a deadly risk.

HOWEVER THERE’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. Read the following:

Will you help phone bank on Saturday, December 12, to help defeat the most serious assault on reproductive freedom in a generation?

Passing health care reform in this country shouldn’t come at the cost of women’s reproductive rights. But that’s exactly what will happen if Democrats allow the anti-choice Stupak amendment to become law.

We will be phone banking into the districts of Democratic lawmakers who voted for the Stupak amendment. This will be a unique and tightly targeted campaign, pressuring these lawmakers with the voices of those they SHOULD care most about – motivated pro-choice Democratic voters who will hold them accountable at the ballot box in 2010. RENWL is joining the effort as well.

RSVP to this link to sign up and learn more: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/event/detail/wrqv

Saturday, December 12, 2009

There will be 2 shifts and you can sign up for either one:
9am-12pm
12pm-3pm

Downtown LA

1930 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1210 (map included on event page above)

Help eradicate the Stupak amendment from Healthcare public option. We can do it. But we’re gonna need your help to make it happen! If you want more information on the Stupak amendment go here.