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From my email.
Draw the Line.
http://support.reproductiverights.org/site/R?i=aBQa8V3AFaqhipNBH26nVg
VICTORY! A federal court just issued a landmark decision removing restrictions on a womans access to emergency contraception.
Make a gift today and celebrate this HUGE step forward for women.
Dear ...
We did it!
A federal judge just issued a landmark decision in our FDA caseordering the agency to remove all restrictions that impede and delay a womans access to emergency contraception within 30 days.
This is a HUGE victory for women's heatlh. Make a gift now to celebrate legal strategies that change womens lives.
The impact of todays ruling is tremendous. It means that when your birth control fails, you can get EC as soon as possible to prevent pregnancy.
Soon, women across the country should no longer need a prescription to get emergency contraception or be subjected to identification checks. The medication can truly be sold over-the-counteron drugstore shelves and in stores other than pharmacies.
This is a major step forward for reproductive rights, but we cant become complacent. Make a gift today so we can continue the fight.
Since 2001, the Center has aggressively pushed the U.S. government to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific and medical evidence proving the safety of emergency contraception for women of all ages. Yet time and time again, politics trumped what was best for women's health.
In todays decision, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman described moves to block increased access to EC as, politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent.
The Center has always believed that women should have access to the full range of safe and effective birth control methods. Todays momentous decision means that they finally will.
Help us continue to push legal strategies that change womens lives.
I am so grateful to you and the thousands of activists who have stuck by us on this journey. We know that great change isnt possible without your support of the Center and to womens fundamental reproductive rights.
Today, we won a battleworking together, we will win the war.
Thanks, as always, for all you do,
Nancy Northup
President & CEO
PS - The Center has been battling the FDA for more than a decade to make sure all women can access emergency contraception quickly when they need it. We wont stop fighting for womens health, but we cant do it alone. Make a gift to celebrate todays victory and invest in legal strategies that change womens lives.
It's a step in the right direction. We need to make more!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)and he didn't want this pill next to the bubble gum and batteries.
eggplant
(3,891 posts)It's just that simple.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)eggplant
(3,891 posts)that it shouldn't matter that I have sons and not daughters. The same items should be in there regardless. I think that when the time comes, they will be.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)They were taught responsiblity and that they should always treat women with respect as equals. They have soooo lived up to my expectations.
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,992 posts)For one thing. And Evangelicals for another. The "Right to Life" movement is purely poltical.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)we are moving it forward!
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)Great work!
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)Oh, how I hate that distinction. It singles out employees, volunteers, and most of all, patients, as targets for the anti choice people who have no business knowing about or interfering in anyone else's business.
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Some good news for a change.