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| Update: January 14, 2010 | | | As the House and Senate versions of the bill are combined, anti-choice extremists and their allies in Congress are demanding that the Stupak amendment be included in the final bill. Contact your members of Congress now and tell them you will not stand for a final health care reform bill that includes Stupak in it. |
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| Update: December 24, 2009 | | | The Senate passed the health care reform bill. Planned Parenthood will fight the abortion access obstacle during conference in January. |
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| Update: December 19, 2009 | | | Planned Parenthood opposes the new abortion language offered by Senator Nelson in the manager's amendment. Last week, the Senate rejected harsh restrictions on abortion coverage and it is a sad day when women's health is traded away for one vote. The amendment creates an unworkable system that leaves tens of millions of women without abortion coverage. |
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| Update: December 2, 2009 | | | Planned Parenthood activists and the Coalition to Pass Health Care Reform and Stop Stupak! lobbied members of Congress to ensure comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion, is covered in health care reform. More than 35,000 e-mails were delivered to the Senate. |
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| Update: November 8, 2009 | | | Last night the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will undercut women’s access to comprehensive health care. Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of Congress to include women’s health care in health care reform, the bill that passed would effectively ban private abortion coverage for millions of women in the United States, even if they are paying for the full cost of the coverage. |
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| Update: November 7, 2009 | | | The House of Representatives voted to adopt the Stupak amendment. Planned Parenthood condemns this unacceptable addition to the health care reform bill that, if enacted, would result in women losing health benefits they have today. |
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| Update: October 5, 2009 | | Groups that want to defeat health care reform, led by anti-choice extremists who are desperate to use legislation to block women's access to care, have been lobbying Congress for months. And the worst part is that lawmakers are listening.
Anti-choice extremists aren't just trying to deny uninsured women access to reproductive health care — they're fighting to make sure that women whose private plans currently cover abortion care lose their access as well. |
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Planned Parenthood believes that all Americans should be guaranteed access to quality, affordable health care.
An integral part of America's health care safety net, Planned Parenthood has called for a renewed focus on preventive health. Many women, including many Planned Parenthood clients, rely on their reproductive health care provider as their primary source of health care. Through this relationship, women have access to a broad range of reproductive health care services that promote and protect their general health and well-being.
Nationwide, more than 850 Planned Parenthood health centers provide a wide range of reproductive health care to millions of women every year. The vast majority of this health care is preventive -- and includes contraception, cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted infections, and immunizations. Such reproductive health care is basic health care, and must be covered by any national health insurance plan if we are to meet women’s health care needs.
Essential community providers like Planned Parenthood health centers are already critical to making health care affordable and accessible in their communities. We must ensure that these community health care providers are included in health care reform -- to safeguard access for current patients and to ensure that newly insured women and families can access these trusted providers close to home. | | |
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- Women are more vulnerable to high health care costs because women’s reproductive health requires more regular contact with health care providers, including visits for yearly Pap tests, mammograms, and obstetric care.
- Tough economic times are especially difficult for women struggling to afford basic health care.
- Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men, in part because of reproductive health-related supplies and services.
- Roughly 16.7 million women are uninsured, and thus likely to postpone care and delay or forgo important preventive care, such as cancer screenings.
- Six in 10 clients consider family planning centers, like Planned Parenthood health centers, their main source of health care. Often, these centers are their only interaction with the country’s health care system.
As the health care reform debate moves forward, those who want to deny access to comprehensive reproductive health care will continue to target both Planned Parenthood and the health insurance coverage that meets all the health care needs of women, men, and teens. We need your help to guarantee that health care reform works for us all.
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