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Tue Feb 15 2005
NARAL Pro-Choice America Invites Anti-Choice Groups to Join Campaign
National Pro-Choice Groups Seek to Reduce Unintended Pregancies
NARAL Pro-Choice America has started a campaign to try to work with the anti-choice movement towards a similar goal: fewer abortions. NARAL says, "What better way to end the debate over abortion than by eliminating the reasons women seek abortion?"

The group is circulating a petition to organizations in the anti-choice movement, asking them to join a new campaign to reduce the need for abortion. Senator Harry Reid - who opposes a woman's right to choose - has offered a common-sense bill called the Prevention First Act, which would help reduce unintended pregnancies through better access to birth control. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America says that it would "expand access to family planning services, ensure comprehensive medically accurate sex education, end insurance discrimination against women, promote emergency contraception, especially for sexual assault survivors, reduce the rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections and reduce the need for abortion among women of all ages." Read more
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