Support No-Cost Birth Control

Can you imagine if your employer were allowed to tell you your insurance plan couldn't cover contraception?

Opponents of no-cost birth control are working hard to make this happen.

Anti-contraception groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are leading the charge against the health-care law’s requirement that women receive access to prescription birth control with no copay.

We need to stand strong in support of no-cost birth control.Please send your emergency message to the White House today. The White House will make its decision soon, so we need your message by Friday, November 18.

In the past few weeks, bishops have mobilized thousands of people to demand a policy that allows certain religious employers to opt out of the requirement to cover birth control at no cost.¹

If the anti-birth-control forces succeed, many women who work for a corporation — like a hospital or a university — will be denied no — cost birth control. I'm talking about professors, nurses, and administrative staff who rely on their employer for their insurance — just like millions of us.

Birth control is basic health care for women. It's so integral to mainstream culture that 98 percent of women use birth control at some point in their lives. That's nearly all women.

Shouldn't women who happen to work at a Catholic hospital or religious college have the same access to affordable birth control that millions of other women soon will have?

Please tell the White House that all women — regardless of their employer — should benefit from no-cost birth control.

The Obama administration is being flooded with letters from people who oppose birth control, so your message today will make a big difference.

My best, Nancy Keenan President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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¹ "Health secretary criticizes anti-abortion advocates for opposing birth control access," The Florida Independent, October 6, 2011