Here's how YOU can help. I know we're all busy, but sending letters is a quick way to get the message across. Plus it's
well worth the effort, and not a moment too soon. So please, do this to let people know you're pro-choice and it's making
a difference in the legislators you, as a voter and volunteer, support and will help elect. We've got to have the last say
in WI newspapers; more people will be reading them this week, some of them undecided voters in our swing state. My thanks
for your help on matter of such great importanance. What you do today helps protect women tomorrow.
I’m voting for a candidate who will put a woman’s right to choose first.
Where Bush selected more than forty anti-choice nominees for federal court appointments, Kerry has cast over 100 pro-choice
votes in the U.S. Senate. Kerry supports policies that are proven to reduce the
number of unwanted pregnancies and improve women’s health. Let’s
elect John Kerry, a president who leaves our personal decisions to us.
Letter Option TWO:I’m
concerned that 22 million single women didn’t vote in the 2000 election. As a pro-choice voter, I’ve observed
four years of this president doing everything in his power to keep women from making our own decisions. I support John Kerry because women need a president who will protect our right to birth control, health
care, and safe, legal abortion.
In his first official action, President Bush re-instated the devastating “global gag rule,”
which defunds medical facilities for the world’s poorest people simply for mentioning abortion. The UNFPA estimates that every single year, Bush’s decision has caused 2 million unwanted pregnancies,
800,000 abortions, 4,700 maternal deaths, and 80,000 infant and child deaths. Not
a very “pro-life” policy.
As President, John Kerry will overturn this cruel policy, saving thousands of women from painful, preventable
deaths from fistula and other conditions. Kerry will do what Bush has not: care
about the status and lives of women and children.
Letter Option Three: George Bush’s hemming and hawing during the
debates cannot obscure his terrible record on women’s health and privacy. His
track record is clear: he doesn’t care about preventing unintended pregnancies.
Against the overwhelming recommendation of two expert medical panels, the Bush Administration’s FDA blocked over-the-counter
access to emergency contraception. This decision is particularly cruel to rape
victims, 25,000 of whom become pregant each year – 90% of whom could be spared this trauma with timely access to emergency
contraception.
Women deserve a president who trusts us to make our own reproductive health decisions. We all deserve a president who believes in science and supports common-sense preventative
measures like emergency contraception. John Kerry stands up for women’s
health – he’s earned my vote.
Letter Option
Four:George Bush has made it clear: he wants anti-choice extremists in the courts. As president, Bush
signed two anti-choice bills into law, one without an exception for the woman’s health.
He’s signed numerous anti-choice executive orders, taking away health care from the world’s poorest families. He also selected more than forty anti-choice nominees for federal court appointments. If given the chance, he will install anti-choice justices on the Supreme Court, overturning
our right to choose.
We can’t let this happen. As a Senator, John Kerry has consistently protected the right to choose, and has cast more than 100 pro-choice
votes. John Kerry believes that women, their doctors, and their families – not politicians and government bureaucrats
– should make their own private medical decisions.
