Planned Parenthood recently came up in discussions on this site. Well, here is their latest campaign to protect our family planning choices:

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.
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Let Freedom Ring!

South Dakota voters overturned the most restrictive abortion law in the nation Tuesday, handing abortion rights supporters a huge victory in a conservative state.

The law was signed in March but was put on hold pending the election. If approved, it would have barred almost all abortions, including for rape and incest victims, and allowed them only if a mother's life was in jeopardy.

"This is a wake-up call to lawmakers in other states that the American pro-choice majority will not allow any assault on Roe v. Wade to go unanswered," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America

Unfortunately, they not only re-elected the man that signed the law, Gov. Mike Rounds, but they also banned gay-marriage.

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Rhode Island Senate: Whitehouse (D) 50%; Chafee (R) 42%

Pennsylvania Senate: Casey (D) 54%; Santorum (R) 41%

And just because the headline reads, Senate balance of power -- Montana now a "toss-up" :
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Take action with Planned Parenthood to protect the future of reproductive rights this election season. Planned Parenthood has targeted races at the local, state and federal level where reproductive rights are at stake and we're going to win by talking with thousands of pro-choice voters in those districts between now and November 7!

Join other New York activists at Planned Parenthood phonebank nights where we will call pro-choice voters in key districts around the country about the upcoming election. Check out the dates below and RSVP to actionfund@ppnyc.org (oh, and bring friends!):

Wednesday, October 18, 6-9pm

Monday, October 23, 6-9pm

Wednesday, October 25, 6-9pm

Wednesday, November 1, 6-9pm

Monday, November 6, 6-9pm

All volunteer nights will be held at 434 West 33rd Street, 7th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

*Oh, and with our fancy predictive dialers, you don't even have to dial!*

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Take action with Planned Parenthood to protect the future of reproductive rights this election season. Planned Parenthood has targeted races at the local, state and federal level where reproductive rights are at stake and we're going to win by talking with thousands of pro-choice voters in those districts between now and November 7!

Join other New York activists at Planned Parenthood phonebank nights where we will call pro-choice voters in key districts around the country about the upcoming election. Check out the dates below and RSVP to actionfund@ppnyc.org (oh, and bring friends!):

Wednesday, October 18, 6-9pm

Monday, October 23, 6-9pm

Wednesday, October 25, 6-9pm

Wednesday, November 1, 6-9pm

Monday, November 6, 6-9pm

All volunteer nights will be held at 434 West 33rd Street, 7th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

*Oh, and with our fancy predictive dialers, you don't even have to dial!*

Location

Take action with Planned Parenthood to protect the future of reproductive rights this election season. Planned Parenthood has targeted races at the local, state and federal level where reproductive rights are at stake and we're going to win by talking with thousands of pro-choice voters in those districts between now and November 7!

Join other New York activists at Planned Parenthood phonebank nights where we will call pro-choice voters in key districts around the country about the upcoming election. Check out the dates below and RSVP to actionfund@ppnyc.org (oh, and bring friends!):

Wednesday, October 18, 6-9pm

Monday, October 23, 6-9pm

Wednesday, October 25, 6-9pm

Wednesday, November 1, 6-9pm

Monday, November 6, 6-9pm

All volunteer nights will be held at 434 West 33rd Street, 7th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

*Oh, and with our fancy predictive dialers, you don't even have to dial!*