{"id":201,"date":"2011-04-20T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T00:15:09","slug":"silver-ribbon-q-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Silver Ribbon Q & A"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the Silver Ribbon\/Trust Women Campaign and what you are hoping to accomplish with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

a. Bring awareness to the public and the policymakers about the 80% of the country that believe we should TRUST WOMEN with personal health decisions and reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

b. Wake up the public about the attacks on reproductive rights, in Congress and statehouses<\/p>\n

c. Get people to TAKE ACTION – and tell others.<\/p>\n

d. To bring reproductive health\/justice\/ rights supporters together under 1 public symbol to work together.<\/p>\n

A recent Huffington Post article by Ellen Shaffer (Co-Director of the Center for Policy Analysis, which sponsors the Silver Ribbon campaign) notes that even the best birth control could fail 1 time in 100, half of pregnancies are unintended, and at least a 1\/3 of US women have an abortion during their lifetime. Could you tell us a little bit about the work the Campaign has done to make reproductive services like this available to women?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fighting cuts to family planning e.g. title X funding. Planned parenthood funding<\/p>\n

Supporting healthcare reform<\/p>\n

Defining birth control as preventive care<\/p>\n

Supporting Walks for Choice<\/p>\n

What are some of the biggest threats to reproductive health rights both legally, politically and socially?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This “war on women.” This attack on reproductive rights on that national and state level<\/p>\n

states are passing more and more ridiculous laws to make abortion unavailable by increasing costs and wait times and making it so that the providers will quit<\/p>\n

e.g. justifiable homicide, treating an abortion clinic like a full service surgery center, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

Can you tell us over the last 10 to 15 years who has been the most impacted on hostilities towards reproductive care?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women of color, women in the middle and lower classes of income.<\/p>\n

The proportion of abortion patients who were poor increased by almost 60%\u2014from 27% in 2000 to 42% in 2008, according to Guttmacher.<\/p>\n

What are some of the initiatives and projects you are involved in that we can support after tonight to continue in making sure our rights are protected? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Please wear a silver ribbon and talk about it with everyone that asks about it.<\/p>\n

Email your friends, facebook, twitter.<\/p>\n

Make sure that your friends with conservative representatives (in other states in more rural CA) speak up and stand up and be counted<\/p>\n

Follow us on facebook. follow us on twitter.<\/p>\n

Twibbon up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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