[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Contact your OH legislator to OPPOSE HB 251 & SB 179

Wed Apr 2 10:03:16 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 2 Apr 2008 AD

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*RIGHT TO LIFE OF GREATER CINCINNATI*
*PRO-LIFE eNEWS*

*ALERT - Planned Parenthood to Lobby the Statehouse - We Need Your Help 
to Defend Life!*
[Information Source: Ohio Right to Life, http://www.ohiolife.org]

March 26, 2008--See this important notice from Ohio Right to Life and 
encourage your senators and representatives to oppose The Prevention 
First Act.

*NOTE* especially the Legislation Summary following the Action Request 
for the full scope of this proposed legislation.

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_*ACTION REQUEST*_

On Wednesday, April 9th, Planned Parenthood is conducting a "lobby day" 
at the Statehouse in support of "The Prevention First Act." We need our 
activists to contact their State Representative and State Senator now 
and strongly oppose this legislation.

Please urge your legislator to *oppose HB 251 & SB 179, the Prevention 
First Act*. Tell them:

    * You don't want your tax money given to affiliates of Planned
    Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country.

    * The [so-called] "morning-after pill" can cause the death [chemical
    abortion] of a human embryo, and Ohio should not violate the freedom
    of conscience by requiring religious hospitals, pro-life pharmacists
    and pro-life taxpayers to provide or subsidize it.

You can find out who your State Representative is by going to: 
http://wwwhouse.state.oh.us/jsps/Representatives.jsp 
<http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/Representatives.jsp> .

You can find out who your State Senator is by going to: 
http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/SenateZipSearch.html .

_*SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION*_

Additionally, the "Prevention First Act" would:

    * Require hospitals, including religiously-affiliated hospitals, to
    provide misleading information stating that "emergency
    contraception" does not cause an abortion or interrupt an
    "established" pregnancy; [*PFLI note: this bill also would
    specifically require pharmacists to dispense abortifacients like
    Plan B, and not allow for Consciencious Objections to such immoral
    or unethical act*s]; and

    * Require the Ohio Department of Health to publish and distribute
    materials on how to use "emergency contraception"; and

    * Establish a teen pregnancy prevention grant program for which
    abstinence-only programs would be_* specifically excluded*_ from
    receiving grants; and

    * The Prevention First bill promotes "emergency contraception"
    despite the fact that a January 2007 study by leading proponents of
    the drug found that increased access to "emergency contraception"
    has_* not reduced rates*_ of abortion or unintended pregnancies.

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