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Freedom=Choice and Choice=Freedom
The Freedom of Choice Act, introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), will secure the right to choose by establishing a federal law that will guarantee reproductive freedom for future generations of American women. Since Roe v. Wade, a woman's right to choose has been systematically eroded by anti-choice legislators in many states. In fact, more than 450 anti-choice measures have been enacted in the states since 1995, essentially rolling back this fundamental right for many women.

It’s time we had a law on the books that would protect women’s rights even if President Bush and his anti-choice colleagues in Congress continue to dismantle Roe v. Wade!

Gracias, mijas:
President Bush recently nominated Andrew von Eschenbach to be FDA commissioner, giving us a unique opportunity to finally end the FDA's politically motivated delays in approving the morning-after pill for over-the-counter sales.

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have declared that they will block von Eschenbach's nomination until the agency decides whether to approve Plan B -- for over-the-counter sales.

Liar, Liar pants on fire!
The anti-choice movement has a stealth strategy for blocking women’s access to abortion care. Known as “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs), many of these anti-choice, fake “clinics” mislead women into believing they offer comprehensive reproductive health care, when in fact their sole purpose is to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose.

It should be no surprise that CPCs have found an avid supporter in President Bush.
But did you know that his administration has given these fake clinics well over $60 million in your taxpayer dollars?

It’s time for Congress to step in and hold these fake “clinics” accountable and protect women from false advertising.

I pay for insurance, now give me my pills!
It’s common sense that women should have ready access to their doctor-prescribed birth control. Unfortunately, the anti-choice movement, spearheaded by groups like Pharmacists for Life, disagrees.

According to Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, birth control pills are out of bounds while Viagra prescriptions are not. She won’t fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill and has lectured women about daily birth control pills. Yet she readily fills Viagra prescriptions and has claimed, "I helped a whole lot of old married men get lucky."

Ms. bag-o-douche: I thought old men were out of the reproductive years? How does that fit into your "no sex outside of procreation" ideology?
Wow, how gender discriminate can you be?
Repeat after me...hypocrite. That's h-y-p....otherwise known as: bag-o-douche.

I want Congress to change all that. The bipartisan Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act would ensure that every woman in every state can get her prescription for birth control filled, whether or not an individual pharmacist has an objection.