[WAC-list] Anti-Choice Bill Moves to the Senate - Help Stop It!

[kirchc43 <kirchc43@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>]

Anti-choice Senate leader Bill Frist is determined to score political points 
with the right-wing's conservative base by pushing for a Senate vote on the 
deceptive "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" before Congress recesses.


It should come as no surprise that anti-choice lawmakers support the so-called 
Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which is intended to threaten the legal basis 
of the right to choose.  Anti-choice Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has conceded the 
bill's true purpose:  "They say it undermines abortion rights. It does."


What is disturbing is that anti-choice legislators are exploiting real human 
tragedies for their own political gain.  Nobody disputes the fact that any 
criminal act that robs women and their families of a hoped-for future child is 
tragic and intolerable.  But instead of passing consensus legislation to 
punish such crimes and protect a woman's right to protect herself and her 
pregnancy from violence, this bill's sponsors are co-opting this important 
issue to advance their own far-right agenda.


Please click here 
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/uvv_senate_0304/ss5bderzj6mbi7 to urge 
your Senators to vote against this dangerous and deceptive bill.




Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): 
Your Senators



Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Please Oppose S.1019


Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],


As a pro-choice American, I write to urge your strong opposition to S.1019, 
the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act." This legislation is a deceptive attack 
on a woman's right to choose disguised as an effort to protect pregnant women 
from violence.


Violence against women, especially pregnant women, is unacceptable. I firmly 
support a woman's right to have a family when she chooses - and any criminal 
act that robs her of a hoped-for future child is tragic and intolerable. Such 
attacks must be vigorously prosecuted and severely punished, and women's 
rights advocates have long urged Congress to pass laws to do just that.

Lawmakers could enact a number of serious and meaningful laws that prevent and 
punish violence and provide services to women and their families. Rather than 
supporting such common-sense measures, anti-choice lawmakers instead are 
promoting the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Supporters of the bill claim 
their goal is to protect pregnant women from acts of violence, yet their true 
intent is to undermine Roe v. Wade. Even sponsors admit that their real 
purpose is to undermine a woman's right to choose.

Because the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" does nothing to help solve the 
real problem of violence against women, I urge you to reject it and instead 
pursue avenues that seek to protect women without undermining their right to 
choose.



Sincerely,

Carolyn Kirchhoff



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Carolyn Kirchhoff
Broadfield Social Sciences for Secondary Education, Minor in Geography and Spanish
Estimated Graduation: 2007 or 08
920-424-5621