Dear Rogi Riverstone,
For the third year in a row, President Bush has cut off family
planning funding to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund,
denying millions of women around the world access to basic
reproductive health services - including birth control,
sexuality education, prenatal and obstetric care, and lifesaving
information and services to prevent HIV/AIDS.
UNFPA is the only multilateral agency specifically devoted to
providing adults and adolescents with family planning and
reproductive health care services and information.
According to UNFPA, the U.S. funds could prevent 2 million
unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions, and 4700
maternal deaths, as well as 77,000 infant and child deaths
annually. Tell President Bush to stop playing politics in our
name!
You can take action on this alert via the web at:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/UNFPA3/uidius4vjmn7ii
Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/UNFPA3/forward/uidius4vjmn7ii
UNFPA Funding Rejected
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this
alert by going to the following URL:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/UNFPA3/uidius4vjmn7ii
Your letter will be addressed and sent to:
President George W. Bush
----THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT IN YOUR NAME----
Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],
Once again, I am outraged by your decision to cut off funding
for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
People everywhere have a right to education, information, and
services to help them make responsible decisions about their own
sexuality and childbearing. Today more than ever, access to
these services is a matter of life and death. Every minute of
every day a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes, and last
year alone, almost 3 million people died of AIDS.
With a relatively small contribution, we have the power to
prevent 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced
abortions, and 4700 maternal deaths, as well as 77,000 infant
and child deaths annually. It is clear that your policies and
actions are driven not by responsibility and compassion, but by
politics and ideology.
The United States should be saving lives, not playing politics
with women's health.
