As you know, HB1756/SB0470 is working its way through the Tennessee General Assembly.  This bill would take away Title X funding from the two Planned Parenthood organizations in Tennessee and leave an estimated 12,000 women and men without services in Tennessee.

Please contact the members we've selected and ask them to put partisan politics aside and remember the thousands of women and families who will be negatively impacted if they pull Title X funding from Planned Parenthood. 

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am writing to you to let you know that I support Planned Parenthood in Tennessee.

I know that you will soon be voting on HB1756/SB0470, an attempt to specifically de-fund Planned Parenthood and strip them of their Federal Title X funding. I am asking you to vote AGAINST HB1756/SB0470. Please, don't support this ugly bill. It is an unjustified attack on Planned Parenthood, a local organization that helps thousands of women each year.

As you know, Title X is a Federal program that passes funding through the State Department of Health, to provide low-cost family planning services for poor and low-income women and men. Under Federal law, it's illegal to use Title X funds for abortion services. Federal Title X funds go to local Departments of Health and non-profit Planned Parenthood clinics, all of which provide the full-range of health care services mandated by Federal guidelines.

Please do not let partisan politics dictate whether the thousands of poor and low-income women in Tennessee who come to Planned Parenthood for family planning services can access these desperately needed basic reproductive health care services.

Please vote against HB1756/SB0470.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
June 03, 2009