Pro-Choice Maryland

Go here to take the oath to defend choice in America since Boehner and fellow anti-choice (yes, there's nothing pro-life about being against contraception and sex ed) politicans plan to:
-Repeal the health-reform law, and taking away prenatal care and affordable contraception from women.

-Push the new "Stupak on Steroids" bill. This bill is even worse than the original Stupak ban in health reform. It would effectively ban coverage of abortion in the new health-care system and impose tax penalties on millions of American families whose private insurance plans include abortion coverage.

-Revive the failed, Bush-era "abstinence-only" programs that censored discussion of birth control.

-Cut funding for family-planning programs that provide women access to basic health care, such as birth control and cancer screenings.

Take the oath to show him you're ready to counter his attacks on choice.

I got this from Planned Parenthood:

During the debate on September 1st between Debra Boxer and Carly Fiorina, Fiorina was asked if she would seek to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Her answer? "If there is an opportunity"

If you have any relatives and friends living in CA that are pro-choice, bring this to their attention. Have them sign it so they can let Fiorina know that they heard her and will keep that in mind on the election on November 2nd when they go to the polls.

Join your fellow pro-choice Americans in our capital to lobby congress and rally against the abortion-coverage ban. Pro-Choice supporters must tell congress that women's health is not an acceptable compromise in the healthcare-reform debate.

Rally to Stop the Abortion-Coverage Ban
From 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Upper Senate Park, Washington, D.C.
200 New Jersey Ave. NW

Meet with your member of Congress
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(Time depends on meeting schedule)

For more information about transportation and reservation, go here

Go to here to sign the petition calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to save abortion coverage and ensure that the same ban is not included in the Senate’s bill.

If the Senate accepts the same Stupak-Pitts amendment that passed in the House health care reform bill:
-It will be virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women.

-This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal, private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private insurance plans cover abortion services

Welcome to the community, prochoicemd (aka Pro-Choice Maryland). This is a safe community to discuss reproductive rights in the state of Maryland.

Please read the rules on the community's profile. They should be very simple to follow. Failure to abide by them could lead to anything from being banned without warning to having your post deleted.

Feel free to talk about any issue involving abortion, contraception, sterilization, adoption, parenthood, sex ed, and activism that's happening in Maryland. Feel free to extend it outside of Maryland like in another state or country.