Support Choice on Nov 17th!

Can you believe how ruthless the anti-choice movement is?
The recent efforts to use the Health Reform bill as a de facto ban on insurance coverage for abortion procedures for all women, regardless of whether they receive public subsidies or purchase their own insurance, is this year’s shining example.
Year after year, we’ve seen anti-choice groups grow stronger, always chipping away at women’s right to choose.
They put up fake “crisis pregnancy centers” next to legitimate women’s health clinics.
They harass women entering those legitimate clinics.
They recruit young women who were born long after Roe vs. Wade brought abortion out of the back alley and into the doctor’s office.
For over 40 years, the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation has been fighting right back. The founders of this organization first came together in 1966 to organize for the legal right to abortion in Minnesota. Their own personal experiences with the tragic effects of illegal abortion led this group of courageous women to the conviction that all women should have access to safe abortions.
And now, so many years later, women still must run the gauntlet of misinformation, intimidation, and harassment just to seek the health care they have a supposed legal right to seek.
It starts at a young age – many Minnesota teens start out without all the facts when they are given an abstinence-only sex education. Those who do seek out birth control can be told “no” by doctors or pharmacists who have the legal right to deny access to birth control based on their own personal beliefs.
And should a woman find herself facing an unplanned pregnancy, she might first find herself in a fake clinic that promised to explain her options, but didn’t include the option of abortion. A fake clinic that receives state family planning money because of the so-called “Positive Alternatives Act” passed by our state legislature in 2005.
If she does find her way to a legitimate clinic, she will almost certainly face picketers that will block her car, or physically block her body. They’ll shout at her or try to hand her flyers asking her not to kill her baby.
No matter how you look at it, true reproductive freedom remains a dream, but not a reality.
You can help counter the misinformation and harassment. You can help women safely and legally get the health care they need. You can help educate the next generation of activists to continue this fight that NARAL’s founders took up so many years ago.
When you make a gift to the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation, you help fund our clinic escort services for local clinics. You ensure that an understanding face greets a woman in the parking lot of her clinic to guide her safely through the protesters.
When you support the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation, you help disseminate accurate information about contraception and abortion across the state.
When you donate today, you can rest assured that we’ll put it to use tomorrow in organizing Minnesota’s young adults to carry on this fight. You make it possible for the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation to take the story of this long battle to college students who have no memory of the ways so many women lost so much to give them these rights they have today.
The key component is YOU. Please, make a generous donation to support this work today. Let’s make true reproductive freedom a reality.

http://www.razoo.com/story/Naral-Pro-Choice-Minnesota-Foundation