If you believe in birth control...

Planned Parenthood is launching one of the most important birth control campaigns in our 90-year history. Our target audience is small, but influential — the 100 members of the United States Senate. We're working to provide them with vitally important facts about health care and birth control.If you believe in birth control, we need you to act now. Send critical information about birth control and the Prevention First Act to the Senators who represent you in Congress.Alert Congress now. Send them our "Prevention First" petition.Since George W. Bush made the indefensible decision to put anti-birth control, anti-sex ed Eric Keroack in charge of the nation's family planning program, Planned Parenthood has gathered more than 116,000 petitions protesting the appointment.Unbelievably, the man now in charge of America's family planning program spent years as medical director of a group that thinks birth control is "demeaning to women." Now, we've got to make it clear that we won't let Keroack, Bush, or anyone else stand in the way of our efforts to safeguard and expand access to birth control and family planning.On the first day of the new Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), along with Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Barack Obama (D-IL), and others, introduced the vitally important Prevention First Act (S.21). Passing this legislation is a key part of Planned Parenthood's 2007 Prevention First agenda. We're pressing Congress to fully fund family planning services, increase access to services through Medicaid, and protect teens with real sex education.Join Planned Parenthood in working with Congress on this commonsense health care legislation.Alert Congress now. Send our "Prevention First" petition.Here are the facts we need you to alert your Senators to right now:Birth Control
Title X, the nation's first and only family planning program, provides reproductive health care services to five million low-income women each year — helping to avoid one million unintended pregnancies annually.
Unfortunately, Title X is grossly underfunded and cannot serve all 17 million low-income women who need access to publicly-funded reproductive health care services. Unintended pregnancies and abortions among low-income women are on the rise.
Title X must be fully funded and access should be expanded through Medicaid.Sex Ed
One billion dollars has been wasted on abstinence-only education, which denies young people real information about how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including AIDS.
Seventy-five percent of parents believe comprehensive, medically accurate sex education should be taught in schools.
Congress should protect teens' health by passing REAL, the Responsible Education About Life Act.Eric Keroack wants Congress to ignore the facts, but we're not going to let it happen.Please send members of Congress the Planned Parenthood "Prevention First" Petition right now.Sincerely,Cecile RichardsPresidentPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaP.S. Planned Parenthood is planning a nationwide Prevention First day of action on February 13, and we need to send as many petitions to Congress as possible before then. Please forward this petition to your friends right now.