From: The KZPG Overpopulation News Network 
Subject: KZPG-.*-DoIt: Critical vote on Global Gag Rule - TOMORROW!

From: Peter Belden 

Critical environmental vote this week on U.S. support for programs to
slow rapid population growth.

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week both the House and Senate will
vote on amendments to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bills that
try to dismantle the International Family Planning program.  You may
remember a similar vote in June during the authorization process.  The
Senate will vote on an amendment to re-instate the Mexico City Gag
Rule that is designed to defund the International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF)  and any other family planning group which is
involved with abortion even with their own private funds.  The House
may vote on a similar measure, and will also likely vote on an
amendment by Rep. Paul of Texas, which would eliminate all funding for
international family planning.  This will be the first time the 105th
Senate has voted on the Gag Rule and count looks very close.  The Paul
amendment will also be a crucial litmus test on who opposes all family
planning.

If enacted, the Gag Rule would deprive millions of the poorest women
in the world of the family planning services they depend on to protect
themselves from unintended pregnancy.  This undermines our efforts in
sustainable development and population stabilization.

  - Current law already ensures that no U.S. funds are used for
    abortion or abortion lobbying overseas.

  - The Gag Rule is anti Family Planning and therefore
    anti-environment.

  - Family Planning Prevents Abortion.  IPPF is one of the only groups
    providing family planning in the former Soviet Union where unsafe
    abortion is all too common because women do not have access to
    family planning.  The Gag Rule undermines the ability to prevent
    abortions in these areas that need it most.

ACTION:  Contact your 3 members of Congress (2 Senate and 1 House) and
tell them to oppose the Mexico City Gag Rule on International Family
Planning and that you view this as a critical environmental vote.  Use
whatever means works best for you: phone, fax or e-mail.  The
important point is to contact them now because the votes are soon.

*******THE MESSAGE: Oppose the Mexico City Gag Rule and support
International Family Planning and the Environment.*******

Find the contact information for your member of congress at
http://www.naral.org/cgi-bin/congress.pl?cf=naral/cong.cf


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