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The petition to the Senate reads:
"Protect Title X and repeal the global gag rule as part of the 2020
budget."

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Dear John,

[ [link removed] ]Stand with Planned
Parenthood

Planned Parenthood saved my life.

While I was an organizer at Planned Parenthood Northern California, I was
diagnosed with cervical cancer. My boss, team and the health center
medical staff made sure I had the care and advice I needed to survive. I'm
here today because of them.

When news broke that the Trump-Pence regime forced Planned Parenthood to
withdraw from Title X, my heart broke.^1 I knew that I had to do
everything in my power to fight back.

Trump and Pence may have hijacked the Department of Health and Human
Services, but Congress still has the power of the purse. In June,
Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a 2020 HHS budget that
protects Title X, the country's program for affordable reproductive health
care, and repeals the domestic and global gag rules that misogynistic
extremists are using to defund reproductive health care providers and lie
to patients about their health care options.^2 We have to demand that the
Senate do the same. The more of us who add our names, the greater our
power to make sure senators support these provisions.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate: Protect Title X and repeal the domestic and global gag
rules. Click here to sign the petition.

Planned Parenthood withdrawing from Title X is a big deal. It means that
millions of people who need affordable reproductive health care won't be
able to access it from one of the country's most trusted providers. It
also means that the right wing just moved one step closer to its dream of
defunding Planned Parenthood by forcing it to walk away from millions of
dollars of Title X funding.

The Trump-Pence domestic gag rule bars all providers who receive Title X
funding from referring people for abortion. In July, the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals refused to block this dangerous policy.^3 That forced
Planned Parenthood to make a moral choice – cave to extremists and stop
providing abortion care or stand up for its values and withdraw from Title
X. On Monday, Planned Parenthood withdrew from Title X – exactly what
Trump and Pence intended.

Trump's global gag rule is even more sweeping. It restricts any entity
that receives U.S. foreign aid from providing or even talking about
abortion with its patients, imposing the cruel Trump-Pence agenda on
thousands of women around the world.

The Title X domestic gag rule and the global gag rule are clear attempts
by misogynists in the White House and Congress to control women's freedom
and futures across the country and abroad. With Democrats in control of
the House of Representatives, we have a 2020 Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education and Related Agencies funding bill (H.R. 2740) that
gives us an opportunity to build momentum and push back.

We must force senators to make a public choice: Will they stand up to
Trump and Pence or help them hurl the country back to a time when basic
health care was a privilege reserved for the wealthy and abortions were
lethal? We know where the majority of Republicans stand, but some, like
Susan Collins, are in tight races in 2020 or 2022 and should feel massive
pressure to do right by their constituents. And every Democrat in both
houses of Congress should get the message that funding HHS' misogyny
should be off the table when it's time for budget negotiations this fall.
Join me now in ramping up the pressure.

Tell the Senate: Protect Title X and repeal the domestic and global gag
rules. Click the link below to sign the petition.

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Thanks for fighting back,

Nicole Regalado, Campaign Director
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Pam Belluck, "[ [link removed] ]Planned Parenthood Refuses Federal Funds Over
Abortion Restrictions," The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2019.
 2. Ally Boguhn, "[ [link removed] ]Five Ways House Democrats Are Using the Budget to
Fight Anti-Choice Policy," Rewire, June 18, 2019.
 3. Jessie Hellmann, "[ [link removed] ]Appeals court denies demands to halt Trump
abortion referral 'gag rule,'" The Hill, July 11, 2019.

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