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#HR358: Speaker Boehner is After Abortion Again

New jobs? Not yet. Improved economy? Debatable. Attacks on women's health? Non-stop.

Attacking women's ability to obtain reproductive health care services remains one of Speaker Boehner's top priorities. Tomorrow, Boehner and the House leadership will bring to a vote a dangerous bill that will undermine women's health and even put women's lives at risk.

Tell your Representative to protect women's health by voting NO on this harmful piece of legislation TODAY.

H.R. 358 is dangerous to women's health. It is so extreme that some women facing pregnancy complications could die. Some of its most dangerous provisions include:

  • Preventing purchase of health insurance that includes abortion care: Millions of women would either be prevented from purchasing insurance plans that cover abortion or would lose the coverage they currently have.
  • Allowing hospitals to refuse to perform emergency abortions: H.R. 358 would allow hospitals to deny emergency abortions to women whose life or health could be saved by the procedure.
  • Taking away existing health insurance coverage: H.R. 358 opens an enormous loophole in the new health care law that would allow states to broaden refusal laws, which would mean that insurance companies could deny women access to contraceptives without co-pays that we secured, with your help, over the summer.

Protect women's health and lives: tell your Representative to oppose this dangerous bill.

Instead of working to create jobs and help the struggling economy, Speaker Boehner is instead continuing his attack on women's health. But he isn’t stopping at abortion. H.R. 358 could also limit women's ability to have access to affordable birth control.

We need your help! The House will vote tomorrow on this harmful and outrageous bill — tell your Representative that H.R. 358 endangers women's health and to vote NO.

Thank you for helping to protect women's access to reproductive health care.

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