DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT: NARAL: Help Counter Anti-Choice Attacks! Deadline: Friday

Dear David,

Anti-choice extremists are demanding a new nationwide abortion ban in the private health-insurance market.

Alarmingly, Congress is buying in to their lies and rhetoric.

Take action by Friday to speak out against this attack.

Banning abortion in the private health-insurance market has become the anti-choice movement's number one goal in health-care reform.

And to do it, the anti-choice extremists leading the movement are spreading outrageous distortions that don't square with the facts. It's nothing we haven't heard from them before…but legislators are listening and their alarming distortions are gaining traction.

David, we must counter these attacks now, as Congress prepares to head home for the August recess. Tell Congress to put the rhetoric and distortions of anti-choice agitators aside and listen to the voices of the pro-choice majority.

In just the last week, the anti-choice machine has spread their talking points far and wide:

The Family Research Council launched a TV ad that will run in five states, targeting six senators.¹
On Capitol Hill, anti-choice lawmakers plus the Concerned Women for America and the National Right to Life Committee held a major press conference falsely claiming that health-care reform contains hidden abortion mandates.²
The Family Research Council also held a web cast to unveil the outrageous TV ad, drawing 49,000 viewers!³ You better believe that these 49,000 people called their members of Congress.

Today, private plans can choose whether to cover abortion -- and most do. If anti-choice groups like the Family Research Council succeed, women who have private insurance coverage for abortion services will lose that coverage.

Ask your lawmakers to oppose anti-choice attacks on health-care legislation, including attempts to take away coverage from women who already have it in their private-insurance plans. We must make an impact by Friday — please act now.

Thanks for getting involved. Our opponents never give up -- neither will we.

Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America