Urge congress to put prevention first

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By increasing access to family planning and creating the nation’s first-ever federal sex education program, the new “Putting Prevention First Act” would improve women’s health, prevent unintended pregnancies and reduce the need for abortion.

Urge your legislators to support and cosponsor the Putting Prevention First Act.

http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/congress_prevention_0404

The act is a comprehensive package of bills that will improve access to contraception, family-planning services and sex education. Specifically, the bill:

- increases funding for the national family planning program, Title X;
- expands Medicaid family-planning services for more low-income women;
- ensures that health plans that cover prescription drugs also cover contraceptives;
- funds emergency contraception (EC) public-education campaigns for doctors and women;
- ensures that hospital emergency rooms offer EC to victims of sexual assault;
- and establishes the nation’s first-ever federal sex-education program.