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Action-Alert
by NOW
Please feel free to forward the following to activists:
From the National Organization for Women Action Center:
Oppose the "Anti-Women's Health Care Access Act"
Action Needed:
Please take a few minutes to call, write or email your representative and
urge her/him to strongly oppose H.R. 4691, a bill that would seriously
endanger the health--and lives--of women across the United States.
Opponents of abortion rights and contraception in the House are moving to
restrict women's access to health care services. During the week of Sept.
23, they plan to bring to the floor one of the most harmful bills yet
proposed. Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla.), at the behest of House majority
Leader Dick Army (R-Texas), will bypass hearings and committee review to
push through H.R. 4691, the so-called Abortion Non-Discrimination Act,
which is really an "Anti-Women's Health Care Access Act."
This bill could deny women the right to abortion, abortion referral
services and emergency contraception, even denying rape victims and women
whose lives are at risk because of pregnancy-related complications. The
effect of H.R. 4691 is to greatly limit women's access to the most basic
health services by authorizing a giant refusal clause for hospitals,
insurance companies and other health care providers.
This anti-women's health care bill, in part drafted by the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, would seek to exempt any health care provider from
having to offer women reproductive health care services if the health care
providers declare it to be against their religious beliefs. Supporters of
the bill have misleadingly characterized it as a means to protect health
care providers who don't want to offer reproductive health services from
"discrimination" in federal funding. However, "discrimination" is so
ambiguously defined that once this bill passes, any effort by the federal,
state and local governments to ensure reproductive health services for
women could be ignored with impunity.
The proposed bill would gut current federal law that requires
federally-funded health clinics to give patients full information about
their reproductive choices, including abortion referrals. It would override
any state and local legislation that requires health care providers who
receive government funding (including Medicaid and HMOs that participate in
the program) to provide health services, full information and referrals to
women. For more detailed information, see this related fact sheet: http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/092002bill.html
We need your support now. Please take a few minutes to call, write or email
your representative and urge her/him to strongly oppose a bill that would
seriously endanger the health--and lives--of women across the United States.
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