This is unbelievable.

We just heard that the latest Covid-19 relief bill being pushed by
Republicans contains language to further restrict access to
reproductive health care.

The bill contains significant federal funding in the form of loans
that would be forgiven for small businesses and non-profits to meet
payrolls and maintain benefits for their employees.

But, outrageously, it specifically bars non-profit health care
providers, like Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, from
participating. It's appalling, but sadly not surprising.

In Ohio, the Attorney General used the Covid-19 crisis to order
clinics to end all "non-essential" abortion care, ignoring
of course that pregnancy increases risk for serious illness.

A permanent repeal of the Global Gag Rule will mean the communities I
serve can once again have access to critical and needed health care
services.

They won't stop themselves from these attacks on reproductive
health care, so we - all of us - have to stop them. Please
call your senators right now and urge them to eliminate this
mean-spirited and shortsighted provision.
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Talking Points:

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It's never okay to try to punish reproductive health care
providers, and using the Covid-19 crisis to do so is especially
disgraceful.

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These non-profits are providing essential health care to some of
America's most vulnerable people. We need to help them and
the people they serve.

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The Senate needs to remove this shortsighted and mean-spirited
exclusion.

Thank you for taking action. I hope you're staying safe and healthy at
home with friends or loved ones.

Brian Dixon

Brian Dixon
Senior VP for Media and Government Relations

 

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