Barack Obama is now president of the United States. We are looking forward to seeing what the Obama administration will do towards supporting women and choice in the coming years.

It was a pleasure to see George W. Bush get on the helicopter and head towards Texas. Enjoy this graphic and feel free to forward to friends!

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We will send this card to George Bush with a $5 donation. Or, please forward to your friends!

Finally after eight grueling years, the end is in sight. The curtain will officially come down on this horrific show on January 20, 2009.

Celebrate that day and wave good bye with one of these three cards. For a suggested donation of $5 (or more) Choice Matters will send your personalized card to George W. at the White House.

Send one in honor of your sister, your mother, your aunt! Send one as a holiday gift to a friend. We will send them a personal thank you telling them of your thoughtfulness!

Last night, Samantha Bee from the Daily Show, lambasted Sen. McCain’s sarcastic use of air quotes when using the term women’s health.

Watch the video here, the part where he speaks about abortion starts 3:00 into the clip. TIP: You can move the slider to 3:00 in the video player below.

For those of you who cannot watch the video, here are some quotes from the piece. They are meant to be sarcastic and show how John McCain’s views on abortion and women’s right’s are a farce.

“Thank you John McCain for finally exposing the seedy underbelly of the women’s ‘health’ scam. Let’s face it, women love abortions and will do anything to get one. The later, the better!”

“Reasonable people can disagree about abortion, but still agree on the unimportance of women’s health”

“John McCain has finally put the concerns of women where they belong, in derisive air quotes”.

“I’m sure if John McCain were raped and had a baby growing in his penis, he would want it publicly discussed at the same level of abstraction. Without concern for his specific ‘life’ or ‘penis’.”

Here is another great Samantha Bee video interviewing people at the Republican National Convention about the Palin family’s ability to make a choice regarding pregnancy that she is looking to take away from others.

Watch this video of our endorsement of Suzi Oppenheimer.

Here is the 2008 Voting Guide. This holds all the answers about the candidates-who is pro-choice and who’s not! Don’t be fooled. Read about McCain’s and Palin’s records and much more. Click here to download an Adobe PDF copy of our 2008 Voting Guide. Share it with your friends.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Election 2008. With the presidential choice between Barack Obama and John McCain, and the election of the entire House and one-third of the Senate up for grabs, voters will be deciding the fate of this country for years to come. Women cannot afford a continuation of the Bush administration’s extremist ideology –and given his voting record, that is exactly what McCain will give us if elected president. Choice Matters has made its position clear. We are endorsing Barack Obama, and actively opposing John McCain.

At the end of the day, we know that it is not Choice Matters, the NRA, the DNC or the RNC who will decide the fate of our country. It will be you, the voter or the non-voter.

Remember, every time a person decides not to vote, those who vote have more power.

PBS is doing a poll to see if people think Palin is qualified to be VP and her supporters are doing a big push to get people to vote yes- and it’s working.
Please go to this website and vote NO – it only takes a second!

Barack Obama was recently criticized for his support of comprehensive sex education in an attack ad. The ad suggests that Obama wants to teach sex to kindergartners. In fact, Obama was supporting legislation that allowed schools to teach “age-appropriate” sex education to kindergartners such as warning young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators. More on this topic here…

The truth is that McCain and Palin are the ones who are wrong on sex-ed. McCain supports abstinence-only sex education — a strategy that has been proven to not work!

Here is a great video about the reality of sex-education.


RH Reality Check: Abstinence-Only Vs. Comprehensive Sex Education from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.


Working to ensure its anti-choice legacy, the Bush administration has proposed Health and Human Services regulations that could dramatically expand the legal right of health care providers, both institutions and individuals, to refuse to provide patients with services, information and referrals specifically regarding health care. The first draft of the measure defined contraception as abortion. The present version does not equate contraception with abortion, but it leaves open that possibility by failing to define key terms, including the words discrimination and abortion. (The devil is in the detail!)

The proposed rule could interfere with the enforcement of a myriad of health laws enacted to protect women, including laws that require health care providers to treat patients in need of emergency care. The rule could have a devastating impact on New York State. Although the State has been at the forefront of efforts to protect women’s access to contraception, the proposed regulation could jeopardize its ability to enforce laws such as requiring Emergency Contraception to be offered to sexual assault survivors in the Emergency Room law as well as enforcing its contraceptive equity law.

Federal and state law has traditionally balanced protections for individuals’ religious beliefs with patients’ need to access health care services. The proposed regulation seems designed to upset that careful balance and place the religious beliefs of medical institutions and professionals above the medical needs of patients.

Comments on the proposed rule are due by September 25 and a final regulation may be issued as soon as late October.

Please write to consciencecomment@hhs.gov, with the subject line Provider Conscience Regulation and advise as many of your friends and family members to do the same. Below is a sample letter which you can customize for your use!

I am writing to urge you to stop efforts to block women’s access to basic reproductive health services. I understand that the proposed regulations that the Department of Health and Human Services released on August 21, 2008 expand existing law to allow more health care providers and institutions to refuse to provide needed care.

As written, the regulations could allow institutions and individuals — based on religious beliefs — to permit individuals to refuse to provide basic health care services, information and counseling. Moreover, they expand existing laws by permitting a wider range of health care professionals to refuse to provide even referrals for abortion services.

For years, federal law has carefully balanced protections for individual religious liberty and patients’ access to reproductive health care. The proposed regulations appear to take patients’ health needs out of the equation. I urge you to restore this important balance and protect access to basic care for the millions of Americans who depend on federally funded health care services.

At a time when more and more Americans are either uninsured or struggling with the soaring costs of health care, the federal government should be expanding access to important health services, not undermining existing protections or interfering in programs that have successfully provided services for years.