|  | | For years to come, 2008 will stand out as a watershed year in our country--a time of sweeping change, grassroots mobilization, and citizen empowerment. Planned Parenthood has an important role to play and a tremendous amount at stake. The One Million Strong Campaign is a national effort to identify, energize, and mobilize one million voters in the 2008 election. |
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 In 2008, one million Planned Parenthood supporters will go to the polls:
» to make women's health a priority
» to pass laws and policies that protect reproductive health and rights
» to keep Planned Parenthood's doors open to the women, men and teens who need information and health care |
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PPAWI Program to Bring One Million Voters to Polls | | Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin is joining the Planned Parenthood Action Fund to bring one million voters to the polls on Election Day 2008.
Calling their program the "One Million Strong," campaign, Planned Parenthood leaders outlined a grassroots effort that also seeks to makes women's health a priority this election.
To continue serving the thousands of Wisconsinites that come to our 30 health centers every year, we must ensure that we have elected officials who support, rather than attack, access to basic health care. That's why we're going to bring one million voters who care about women's health to the polls in 2008. Women voters and young adults trust PPAWI for election information, and we will deliver.
"Under President Bush, women have seen access to basic health care like birth control become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible. They watched as the president appointed an anti-birth control hardliner to run the nation's family planning program. And they've now seen the White House pour over $1.5 billion into ineffective and dangerous abstinence-until-marriage programs that do nothing to prevent unintended pregnancies," said Cecile Richards, president of the national Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide provide over 5 million women, men and teens each year with information and medical services, and operate in all 50 states. Nearly one in four women in America has visited a Planned Parenthood health center in her lifetime.
"Women and young people have proven to be decisive forces in the presidential contests so far, and health care remains a top domestic issue," said pollster Geoff Garin. Planned Parenthood has a unique ability to reach the voters that will decide this election. | |  |
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