Stand for Planned Parenthood and women's right to have access to low-cost & good healthcare

Today the US House of "Representatives" voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk.

I live in New York, where all but two (!!) congressMEN voted against the bill.  It's at times like this that I (fleetingly) wish I lived in a place where my deeply held progressive beliefs weren't quite so mainstream, where I could repeatedly dial my representative and it might have an impact. But those moments are fleeting. :) But I know there are people in the Red Tent who do live elsewhere.

I am staunchly pro-choice/pro-abortion...but this isn't solely about that. It's about supporting an organization that has done so much to support women for almost 100 years. It's about supporting an organization the RTWP has collaborated with, too! :)

Most of all, it's about making sure women have access safe reproductive health care, not just the women who can afford it. 

Wherever you live, please sign the open letter to the reps who voted for this bill -- and to the senators who still have a chance to stop it.
http://www.istandwithplannedparenthood.org