[NOW Actions] National Call-In Day Wednesday to Protect Abortion Rights

Support NOW's Work |	April 24, 2007	| Tell a Friend

All NOW Actions More about NOW's work on reproductive freedom		Stand Up for Women Take Action NOW Call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121 or send e-mail You can help jump-start the legislative reversal of last week's Supreme Court decision, by making a phone call or sending an email. Join NOW and our allies for a National Call-in Day on Wednesday, April 25, the anniversary of our 2004 March for Women's Lives, to ask your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Freedom of Choice Act. As you know, the Supreme Court last week upheld the Federal Abortion Ban, the nation's first federal ban on an abortion procedure. This law is so vaguely written that it may ban the most common abortion procedure used after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Worse, there is no exception when a woman's health is in danger. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it in her stinging dissent, "the Act, and the Court's defense of it, cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court." That effort to chip away at reproductive rights is well underway in state legislatures around the country and we have every reason to expect that this decision will galvanize those efforts. What can we do? In addition to vigilantly opposing abortion restrictions that are proposed in our state houses, we need a federal law that will protect this right and place it beyond the reach of individual state legislatures. The Freedom of Choice Act would do just that. The Act would guarantee that women can exercise the reproductive freedom that was promised in Roe v. Wade and additionally would preserve that freedom should Roe be overturned by the new 5-4 anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court Call Your Members of Congress - 202-224-3121 Join women's rights supporters across the country for this national call-in day on Wednesday -- and keep calling until you get through. Use the switchboard number above, and ask for your members of Congress -- or get their receptionist's direct phone number from our directory. Ask for the staff person who handles this issue, and request politely that the member co-sponsor the Freedom of Choice Act. If your senator or representative is already a co-sponsor (see a list of Senate and House co-sponsors), say thank you (trust us, they're hearing from the other side!) While you're at it, drop them an e-mail for added impact. Send a message to both of your senators and to your representative today using our easy alert system. Don't forget to tell your friends about the call-in day!
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