Women's Health being attacked--Again

This is getting old and very tiring:

After a week of outrageous attacks on health care reform by anti-choice groups, Planned Parenthood reached out to supporters on Saturday to help deliver a simple message to Congress: Health care reform must not leave women worse off than they are under our current system. Since then, the steady assault from anti-choice groups has become an avalanche.

They're spreading lies about health care proposals, attacking Planned Parenthood, and doing everything they can to hijack health care reform. We can't let them get away with it — if they succeed, a generation of women will see their access to comprehensive reproductive health care and their choice of providers jeopardized. Please take action now: click to sign here

Did you know that Planned Parenthood provides primary, basic medical care to men, women AND children who would have no access to AFFORDABLE basic, medical care because they lack insurance and money. I'm talking basic annual check ups, blood pressure checks, diabetes testing, those types of basic services. Available on a sliding scale based on your income. Less than 3% of all services provided by planned parenthood are abortion based service or counseling.

I'm doing something more than simply clicking a link and putting my name on a petition. I'm fighting with my body and my words. I have given permission to Planned Parenthood to use my name and my medical limbo in addition to thousands of other names and real stories and present them to Congress as they fight for the ability to continue to offer these basic services.

Description of original work of authorship to be covered by this License (e.g.“my personal, written story” or “my comments”):



__ Meri, a Berkeley resident, is self-employed and would be able to afford her own health insurance plan. But Blue Cross and Aetna, among other insurance companies, turned her down when her doctor put her on a beta blocker to keep her blood pressure in normal range and on another medication to control her cholesterol. “Because of that, and my age, I’m uninsurable,” says Meri, who is 47. So Meri goes to her local Planned Parenthood clinic for her primary health care needs. “I’m very grateful they exist. Without Planned Parenthood, I would be without basic health care.” _______________________________



For good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged:

basic legal stuff giving them the right, royalty-free to use my name and my story. I also had to agree that I understood this might focus media attention upon me for my views and was I comfortable with PP offering my contact info to media for verification and/or questions about my experience. The answer is yes.

Signed, faxed, delivered.

This is hate. This is gender bias and discrimination. This is fat white 50 year old richer than midas men trying to make health care a single issue fight: abortion. Nothing is ever single issue. Including this.

If you want to join your voice and testimonial with mine, let me know I'll put you in touch with Sebastian and Planned Parenthood.