This won't cost you a dime, unless you want to help in that way too.*
All I need you to do is sign your name to a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and President Obama to fix this portion of the health care reform bill before bringing it to a final vote.
NARAL's goal is a very modest 30,000 signatures by noon on January 20, 2010.
30,000 pro-choice Americans? By January 20, 2010? That's a cinch. And I know just the people to ask for help.
It's not too late.
As Nancy Keenan, the President of NARAL Pro-Choice America says:
This bill is not a done deal. Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, and President Obama are playing key roles in these final days of the health-care debate. That's why we've set a goal of sending them 30,000 unequivocal messages from pro-choice Americans like you: Women should not lose ground in the new health-care system.
We can still do something productive here. So let's knock this one out of the ballpark, sign the petition today. Don't forget to forward it to your pro-choice friends and family members--women and men.
If they know we're here and they know we care, they'll find a way to make this work. I believe that.
I do not believe that most Democrats want to pass historic legislation that further burdens and potentially puts women's lives in danger, demoralizes their pro-choice base, or betrays their own values as genuine legislative supporters of reproductive freedom.
They just need to hear from us so that they can use this petition to make the case with pro-choice legislators across the aisle to lend an emergency vote if anti-choice Democrats try to derail a repaired bill by withholding their support for its final passage.
There's no excuse not to try.
Once again, Nancy Keenan:
This is our last chance to get this done – to make sure that anti-choice lawmakers and extremists don't get away with using this historic legislation to roll back our reproductive freedom.
Word!
Now, deed: You know what to do.
I want to thank each of you in advance for helping out. Have a terrific day.
* I am neither employed by NARAL Pro-Choice America, nor professionally affiliated with them in any capacity.