Attack on Woman's Reproductive Health

First, House Republicans started with H.R. 3, a bill that would raise taxes on families and businesses that purchase insurance covering a full range of reproductive health care. Now they've turned to the budget to enact their extremist agenda:

• How can they justify eliminating all funds for Title X, which provides health care services for 4.7 million women nationwide and prevents almost 1 million unintended pregnancies a year?
   
• How can they justify defunding Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides 720,000 breast exams and 730,000 pap tests annually, tests that literally save the lives of American women?
   
• How can they justify taking away basic health care from millions of women

the House Republicans passed an outrageous "budget" bill that completely defunds Title X -- which provides cancer screenings, HIV testing, and family planning to low-income women.There's no other way to put it: The House GOP is waging an all-out war on women's health, and we must stop them this week in the U.S. Senate.

And it gets worse: They also voted to eliminate all funding for Planned Parenthood, thereby denying health care to millions of women across the country.

Let me be clear: These cuts have nothing to do with reducing the deficit. They are about enacting an extreme political agenda that would take away health care from millions of women, leading to more untreated cancers and more unintended pregnancies.

We must send a message that their extremist agenda won't fly in the U.S. Senate -- not on our watch. When this budget comes to the floor this week, we must stand up and defeat it.

You've already joined with over 50,000 other Americans to oppose these extreme measures, and I'm so grateful for your support. But I need you to make sure your friends know what's at stake. Forward this message and urge your friends & family to stand with us in opposing these egregious attacks on women's health by signing our petition today!

First, House Republicans started with H.R. 3, a bill that would raise taxes on families and businesses that purchase insurance covering a full range of reproductive health care. Now they've turned to the budget to enact their extremist agenda:

• How can they justify eliminating all funds for Title X, which provides health care services for 4.7 million women nationwide and prevents almost 1 million unintended pregnancies a year?
   
• How can they justify defunding Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides 720,000 breast exams and 730,000 pap tests annually, tests that literally save the lives of American women?
   
• How can they justify taking away basic health care from millions of women?

They can't -- and we can't let it happen.

I need your help, now more than ever, to stop the House GOP's war on women's health.

Make sure to forward this message to your friends today -- and urge them tostand up to House Republicans' all-out war on women's health by signing our petition now!

We're going to have to stand up, again and again, to stop House Republicans from taking away the basic health care services women and their families need and deserve. That's why we must defeat their budget this week, and continue to speak out, loudly and clearly, until we stop them.

I had sincerely hoped we'd never be debating something as fundamental as women's health again.

But we are. And we can't lose.

Thank you for joining me and fighting back against the House GOP's all-out war on women's health.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senator