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Friends of Equality: Protecting Women's Rights (Equality Team Event)
We all know that public option for healthcare is just hovering on the edge waiting to become a reality. Problem is, it’s got this nasty fine print—the Stupak amendment— that says if you get pregnant and need to have an abortion (not us quite naturally but our female friends, fam ‘n such) you’re on your own; public option healthcare won’t be footin’ the bill.

That ain’t right. Can you imagine the many economically disadvantaged women of color who’d be driven to desperate measures to get an abortion? We see a rise in illegal abortion clinics and unnecessary deaths to women seeking abortions through these means and other unspeakable actions if this Stupak amendment remains intact in healthcare public option. There’s no justifiable reason to put these women at such a deadly risk.

HOWEVER THERE’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. Read the following:

Will you help phone bank on Saturday, December 12, to help defeat the most serious assault on reproductive freedom in a generation?

Passing health care reform in this country shouldn’t come at the cost of women’s reproductive rights. But that’s exactly what will happen if Democrats allow the anti-choice Stupak amendment to become law.

We will be phone banking into the districts of Democratic lawmakers who voted for the Stupak amendment. This will be a unique and tightly targeted campaign, pressuring these lawmakers with the voices of those they SHOULD care most about – motivated pro-choice Democratic voters who will hold them accountable at the ballot box in 2010. RENWL is joining the effort as well.

There will be 2 shifts and you can sign up for either one:

9am-12pm
12pm-3pm

(When rsvping please indicate which shift you'd like to phonebank.)
Time:
Host: Derrick Mathis
Location:
Heath-Access California (Los Angeles, CA)
1930 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1210
Los Angeles, CA 90057
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About County Equality Teams
  • Based on the volunteer-driven Neighborhood Team model that proved successful during the Obama campaign, our Neighborhood Equality Teams provide the opportunity for people to be involved at a local level in this important movement for equality.
  • The mission of our Equality Teams is as follows:
    • Establish an active and visible presence in the community for marriage equality.
    • Develop relationships with local elected officials and supportive organizations to create an opportunity for sharing resources and building local power.
    • Coordinate regular voter contact actions - including canvasses, phone-banks, tabling at community events, and registering new voters.
    • Represent the community in important state-wide actions, trainings, and conference calls focused on marriage equality.
  • Over the past six months, local activists have established 44 Equality Teams in 23 counties.  Those teams have hosted more than 140 events, knocked on thousands of doors and have held countless successful and moving conversations with undecided California voters.

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