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Monday, November 9, 2009

Part 2 of why Bart Stupak sucks: The letter writing campaign

Wanna write Bart Stupak to tell him how angry you are about the Stupak-Pitts amendment? Follow the instructions below. Feel free to use my letter below as well.

- You have to live in Michigan to email him, so use one of the addresses of his district offices as your address (includes Alpena, Escanaba, Marquette, Houghton, and Petoskey)

Dear Mr. Stupak,

I am writing today to inform you that you have just led a disgusting, disgraceful, and misogynistic attack against women's health and liberties. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment is a despicable example of women's health being singled out as less important than other aspects of health care. It represents a sad regression back to the days where exercising choice over one's body, health, and life meant risking social stigma, disease and infection, and/or death. You may be morally and ideologically opposed to abortion, and you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but as it stands in America, abortion is a legal procedure and is the most common minor surgical procedure in the U.S. In addition, your amendment is a poorly disguised and overtly classist attempt at making abortion a procedure only available to high-income women with disposable income, who would not need to receive affordability tax credits to fund their health insurance plans.


At this moment, over 85% of private health insurance plans cover abortion, but for women who do not have the luxury to pay the skyrocketing costs of a private plan, they are forced to pay even more money for aspects of health care not covered under their plans. It is also entirely unacceptable that you allowed and even encouraged the interests and agenda of a religious organization, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), to infiltrate the law making process. We are a country of varied religious faiths or lack thereof, and also one that legally stands by the principle of separation of church and state. And your solution to the women who are crazy enough to want coverage for reproductive health? An "abortion rider," because it's entirely plausible to predict when you will need abortion coverage. You must be smart enough to know that it is absolutely absurd to ask women to invest in the likelihood of having an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy, and you are using this to your advantage to push for even less access to abortion care. Mr. Stupak, nearly 70,000 women a year die from illegal, botched abortions because they are not fortunate enough to live in countries that value them as people who have every right to maintain agency over their bodies, their health, and their futures. You do wrong by these women, and wrong by all women in the U.S., and you should be ashamed of yourself.

1 comment:

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