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Tell Congress: Stop Trying to Block Women’s Access to Birth Control Despite overwhelming public support for birth control, anti-birth control lawmakers aren’t backing down. They are determined to give employers the power to deny women coverage for contraception — and they don’t want to hear from women or from anyone who disagrees with them.These legislators included five male religious leaders in the opening panel of the House hearing on the birth control coverage requirement — and not a single woman. In fact, they turned away a young woman from Georgetown University who had been invited by Democrats on the committee to testify about the role birth control plays in women’s health.Fill out the form to the right to tell your representatives in Congress to back off on birth control. (Literally takes 10 seconds, please sign!)

Tell Congress: Stop Trying to Block Women’s Access to Birth Control

Despite overwhelming public support for birth control, anti-birth control lawmakers aren’t backing down. They are determined to give employers the power to deny women coverage for contraception — and they don’t want to hear from women or from anyone who disagrees with them.

These legislators included five male religious leaders in the opening panel of the House hearing on the birth control coverage requirement — and not a single woman. In fact, they turned away a young woman from Georgetown University who had been invited by Democrats on the committee to testify about the role birth control plays in women’s health.

Fill out the form to the right to tell your representatives in Congress to back off on birth control. (Literally takes 10 seconds, please sign!)

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