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Tuesday November 13, 2007 · 1:21 PM PST

2007/11/13 · 13:21

This summer for a while I tried to post action alerts about measures that could help to reduce abortion, measures that prolife and prochoice people alike could both support in good conscience....

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 1:42 PM PDT

2007/08/01 · 13:42

Please write your Congresspeople on behalf of the Prevention First Act (HR 819/S 21). The sponsors are Rep. Louise Slaughter, who is prochoice, and Senator Harry Reid, who is prolife.

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 9:25 AM PDT

2007/07/27 · 09:25

Your support is needed right now for the All Healthy Children Act (S. 1564/HR 1688). This bill will secure health care access for millions of poor pregnant women and children who currently are uninsured or underinsured.

Please join in the Healthy Child Campaign of the Children's Defense Fund. Here individuals can send emails in support of the Act to their representatives. Organizations can join the 1000+ groups across the country that have already endorsed CDF's efforts for health care justice.

Personally, I think it would better to call these measures the All Healthy Pregnant Women and Children Act, the Healthy Pregnant Women & Child Campaign. Why must the women be made invisible? And while I'm at it: why not universal health care coverage, for all humans, adult or child, pregnant or nonpregnant? At the same time, why not participate in these movements in the right direction? And surely this legislation will make a big difference to beleagured citizens in their everyday lives and struggles, including pregnant women whose economic & health care access difficulties back them against the wall, with abortion the only evident relief in sight.

Reducing Abortion: Take Positive Steps

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Thursday July 26, 2007 · 2:24 PM PDT

2007/07/26 · 14:24

Because it confuses voluntary contraception and maternal/child health programs with abortion and coerced population control, the US government continues to withhold financial and moral support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

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Wednesday July 25, 2007 · 7:35 PM PDT

2007/07/25 · 19:35

This diary will regularly post actions that you can take if you wish to alleviate the root causes of abortion, whether you define yourself as prochoice, prolife, or something else.

There are plenty of places online for those who are primarily interested in hurling ad hominem arguments & rudely bludgeoning others with the utter righteousness of their unquestioned/unquestionable viewpoint (whatever it may be). That's not what this diary is meant for.

It's meant to be at least one small space where people of diverse viewpoints on this subject can cooperate on making a tangible difference on the issues they do agree about. Although I have plenty of my own ideas, more than one head/heart is indeed better than one, and I genuinely welcome your own suggestions for positive, common-ground action steps.

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