If you want to prevent abortions in this country then call your state legislature and tell them you want comprehensive, accurate sex education taught in all schools. Tell them you want teenagers to have access to birth control 'cause guess what -- they are having sex whether you like it or not. Tell them you think pharmacies should be able to distribute birth control to women without a prescription (a pap smear is not medically required to determine someone is a good candidate for any type of birth control -- ask your doctor). One of the biggest hurdles to women who don't have birth control is the cost of a medical appointment. Ensure Emergency Contraception is available in pharmacies and on campus. Insists that pharmacists are required to fill all medically correct and legal prescriptions for contraceptives. In the U.S. 50% of all pregnancies each year are unintended and 50% of those end in abortion. The best way to prevent abortions is to prevent unintended pregnancy.
Below is the message distributed by Planned Parenthood after Dr. Tiller's death.
Planned Parenthood Mourns the Death of Dr. George Tiller
Tragedy underscores the risks and quiet courage our area physicians enlist to provide safe, legal and compassionate reproductive health care
The entire Planned Parenthood family is deeply saddened by the horrific murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and those close to him who are suffering a personal tragedy.
Dr. Tiller provided the highest quality of medical care and deep compassion for his patients. While he was not a Planned Parenthood provider, Dr. Tiller provided critical reproductive health care services, including abortion care, to women facing some of the most tragic medical circumstances.
He was continually harassed by abortion opponents for much of his career - his clinic was burned down, he was shot in both arms by a health center protestor, and he was recently targeted for investigation only to be acquitted by a jury just a few months ago. None of this stopped Dr. Tiller from his commitment to providing women and their families with compassionate care that others were unwilling to offer.
In Wisconsin, we have a very unfortunate, very real example of the dangers faced by physicians and health care facilities that courageously provide these necessary services for women and families who have nowhere else to turn.
For the past six months, anti-choice extremist organizations, including Wisconsin Right to Life and Pro-Life Wisconsin, have been targeting the Madison Surgery Center in an effort to intimidate them into not providing critical abortion care. Their tactics have included ongoing protests, inflammatory rhetoric, and most recently paid advertising in a Madison newspaper.
While publicly condemning the murder of Dr. Tiller, anti-choice extremist groups continue a smear campaign against reproductive medical providers in Madison, including the naming of a doctor in a slanderous ad last week. This was the third of three ads placed by Wisconsin Right to Life to harass and intimidate all those involved with the Madison Surgery Center and its commitment to ensuring that all Wisconsin families continue to have access to the full range of reproductive health care they need to manage their lives and health.
These public attacks put the safety of abortion providers and the surrounding community at risk.
Dr. Tiller’s death is an enormous loss for the patients who relied on him, his dedicated staff, and the medical community. And it is also a loss for each of us who regarded Dr. Tiller as a courageous provider who prevailed against unbelievable adversity. His death unfortunately also serves as a sobering reminder of the potential impact of the irresponsible and inflammatory tactics being used in our own backyard.
Tragedy underscores the risks and quiet courage our area physicians enlist to provide safe, legal and compassionate reproductive health care
The entire Planned Parenthood family is deeply saddened by the horrific murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and those close to him who are suffering a personal tragedy.
Dr. Tiller provided the highest quality of medical care and deep compassion for his patients. While he was not a Planned Parenthood provider, Dr. Tiller provided critical reproductive health care services, including abortion care, to women facing some of the most tragic medical circumstances.
He was continually harassed by abortion opponents for much of his career - his clinic was burned down, he was shot in both arms by a health center protestor, and he was recently targeted for investigation only to be acquitted by a jury just a few months ago. None of this stopped Dr. Tiller from his commitment to providing women and their families with compassionate care that others were unwilling to offer.
In Wisconsin, we have a very unfortunate, very real example of the dangers faced by physicians and health care facilities that courageously provide these necessary services for women and families who have nowhere else to turn.
For the past six months, anti-choice extremist organizations, including Wisconsin Right to Life and Pro-Life Wisconsin, have been targeting the Madison Surgery Center in an effort to intimidate them into not providing critical abortion care. Their tactics have included ongoing protests, inflammatory rhetoric, and most recently paid advertising in a Madison newspaper.
While publicly condemning the murder of Dr. Tiller, anti-choice extremist groups continue a smear campaign against reproductive medical providers in Madison, including the naming of a doctor in a slanderous ad last week. This was the third of three ads placed by Wisconsin Right to Life to harass and intimidate all those involved with the Madison Surgery Center and its commitment to ensuring that all Wisconsin families continue to have access to the full range of reproductive health care they need to manage their lives and health.
These public attacks put the safety of abortion providers and the surrounding community at risk.
Dr. Tiller’s death is an enormous loss for the patients who relied on him, his dedicated staff, and the medical community. And it is also a loss for each of us who regarded Dr. Tiller as a courageous provider who prevailed against unbelievable adversity. His death unfortunately also serves as a sobering reminder of the potential impact of the irresponsible and inflammatory tactics being used in our own backyard.
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