Action Alert--anyone in MA--NARAL has a request

The Emergency Contraceptive Act is expected to reach a vote in the MA state senate soon.

NARAL is sponsoring a 'write your state senator' campaign. It's here.

There are two things this bill will do: first, it will mandate that emergency rooms have Emergency Contraception on hand for rape victims. Second, it will allow pharmacists, after going through a training course, to dispense EC without a prescription.

It's a good bill--another way to make it easier to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, and with less hoops for the woman to run through.

I urge any Kossacks from MA to follow the link and send a letter off to your state senator. I've done so. Fred Berry's good on choice, so I'm sure he's amenable to this--but it doesn't hurt to send the letter.
 

•  Done

  And thanks for the alert!

  by terribfromMA on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 06:13:45 AM PDT

•  What ?

  [snark]
  we should pay attention to NARAL and not rely upon the basic, intrinsic goodness of the Democratic Party ?
  [/snark]

  by tiponeill on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 06:22:11 AM PDT

  •  helpful comment of the day

    gets you a gold "*"

    by Cheez Whiz on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 06:41:04 AM PDT

  •  I'm obviously on NARAL's mailing list

    since I got this.

    One can appreciate the good things they do--such as alerting us to stuff like this--and still think that the Chaffee endorsement was a short-sighted fuckup.

    by ChurchofBruce on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 07:25:13 AM PDT

•  Oh, I would...

  but my senator (Shannon) died recently, and I looked around but it appears the seat is just vacant and no one has been placed in there in the interim.

  He was a good guy, would have voted our way.  Alas.

  by mem from somerville on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 06:26:43 AM PDT

•  Wow it is so rare

  to have good legislation coming into the hallowed halls of dementia.

  by glitterscale on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 06:47:04 AM PDT