ADVOCATE FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

Every day, legislators and judges are making decisions that affect your access to reproductive health care services.  The Public Affairs Department at PPNT is dedicated to providing our community with timely, accurate information on current legislation, court cases, and administrative measures affecting reproductive health care and encourages people like yourself to take political action.  Follow the links below to more information on our issues and find out what you can do right now to make a difference.

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	BE INFORMED!		TAKE ACTION!
	Learn About Current and Past Federal and State Legislation.		Join the Action Network!
	Read How the Government is Playing Politics with Birth Control.		Take Action Through Our Advocacy Campaigns
	Search PPNT Fact Sheets on Reproductive Health Issues.		Find Your Elected Officials
	Why Should You Be A PPNT Advocate?		Tell Your Friends About PPNT
	Take a Look at Our Past Public Affairs Events.		Write A Letter to the Editor
	See Links to other Public Affairs Sites.		NEW! Support PPNT Within Your Community.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Pharmacists throughout the country, including Texas, have refused to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception and birth control pills, because they don't believe women should have them.

• Approximately 1 million Texas women have no access to basic reproductive health care such as Pap smears.

• President Bush has refused for 4 years in a row to release congressionally appropriated funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), citing an unsubstantiated claim that the organization helps the Chinese government provide forced abortions and sterilizations to its citizens.

• Since 1996, Congress has increased federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs by 3000%, spending over $500 million on programs that preach abstinence from sexual activity is the only acceptable behavior outside of marriage and prohibit discussion of contraceptions except to portray them as ineffective.

Did you know that every legislative session bills are introduced in the Texas Legislature and in the U.S. Congress to erode our reproductive rights?

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OUR MISSION

The Public Affairs Department at PPNT educates and advocates for reproductive health care access and availability through the North Texas community and through North Texas representatives both in Austin and in Washington D.C.  We advocate for every person's right to comprehensive, confidential reproductive health care and family planning services, access to these services and the right to accurate information about sexual health.