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.