Anti-Choice Activity
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Women should be able to get health care without fear of violence, harassment, or intimidation. Young people should be able to get accurate information about their health and how to protect it. And women, men, and teens should be able to make their own decisions about their reproductive health and their futures without government intrusion.
Yet anti-choice extremists do all they can to prevent women and men from taking charge of their lives.
- They push for restrictions on access to basic health care and harass women seeking preventive family planning services.
- They support abstinence-only programs that deny young people medically accurate information about how to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
- They distort information about the safety of birth control, the effectiveness of condoms, and the side effects of abortion.
- They set up so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" to intimidate and confuse young women seeking abortions.
- They oppose both birth control and abortion services.
If anti-choice extremists truly were concerned about women and families, they would work with Planned Parenthood to increase access to affordable birth control and comprehensive sex education — the only real solutions to preventing unintended pregnancies and thus reducing the need for abortion.
Planned Parenthood fights anti-choice extremism on every level. Our courageous volunteers act as escorts to keep patients safe from demonstrators at Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers around the country. Our activists fight for commonsense policies in schools, pharmacies, insurance companies, and state and national legislatures. Our litigation experts protect us from intrusive laws in the courts. And our supporters voice their support for women's health and safety in the media and other public forums nationwide.
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Published: 05.05.08 | Updated: 05.05.08
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