Write For Choice: E-Activism in Wisconsin

SPECIAL ALERT: PRIMARY 2004

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SPECIAL ALERT: PRIMARY 2004
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Here's your chance to take action and let Wisconsin know you care about Choice!

Letter Writing Instructions (Guidelines for Time-Efficient E-Activism)

Please select a letter from the following, or write your own!

Before you actually email a letter, please read:

*If you choose the third option (C), it's important to insert the names of local pro-choice candidates.*

That said, just copy and paste a letter into an email. Be sure to sign it with your name and date. Also, to increase the chances of your letter being printed, please follow any added instructions on the newspaper's editorial site (I've tried to include some key points on the Newspaper Contact page).

And please make sure to read the newly-updated page on Letter Writing Instructions. Together we can make writing for reproductive choice a truly awesome campaign!

Please also co-contact me:

letters@prochoicewisconsin.org

any time you send a letter, and also if it is printed.

Thanks for all you do to support reproductive choice!

OPTION A:

The primaries are less than two weeks away, and Wisconsin is a key swing state. As a pro-choice voter concerned about the future of reproductive health, I take heart in American Viewpoint’s May 2004 poll, finding that 73% of Republican voters support a woman’s rights to reproductive choice and medical privacy. Reproductive rights are important to voters of both parties.

I urge voters of both parties to support pro-choice candidates who will work to expand access to commonsense, basic preventative health care like contraception. Democrats and Republicans must address the deep inequities in our health care system, where women spend almost 70% more than men in out-of-pocket health care costs. Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager’s recent formal opinion on contraceptive equity is a step in the right direction, but we need Legislators to make sure that women have access to accurate information, effective methods to prevent pregnancy, and doctors who will tell patients the truth.

 

OPTION B:

As a pro-choice voter, I support candidates who are committed to helping women and their families. Anti-choice measures threaten not only women who choose abortion, but those who are trying to prevent pregnancy and receive basic health care. Anti-choice state legislators tried to pass laws to eliminate basic health care for young, low-income women, thus jeopardizing millions in federal funding, and laws that allow doctors to withhold vital medical information from their patients, even when the patient’s life is in danger.

This election, more than any other, is crucial to preserving not only women’s reproductive rights, but medical privacy and basic health care. From the Presidential election to State Assembly, candidates have starkly contrasting views on women’s equality and health. I urge all voters to reject the invasive, dangerous, and extremist policies of anti-choice candidates, and support leaders who will protect the health and privacy of women and families.

 

OPTION C:

Anti-choice policies threaten not only women, but families, businesses, and our health. In the last legislative session, extremist legislators proposed bills that would gut commonsense preventative health care measures, cost the state millions in federal funds, and allow doctors to withhold information from patients even when it threatened the patient’s health. We can’t let that happen in the next session.

Choice is an issue for voters on both sides of the aisle – a May 2004 poll by American Viewpoint showed that a full 73% of Republicans identify as pro-choice. In Wisconsin, pro-choice leaders like (insert local candidates) face tough campaigns. I urge voters who care about medical privacy, preventative medicine, and access to accurate information from your doctor to support pro-choice candidates on September 14th.

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NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA MISSION STATEMENT
To develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.