If you haven’t already called the Finance Committee about the Baucus health care bill, the clock is ticking. Do it, do it, do it.
Here’s some helpful guidance from the Center for Reproductive Rights:
1. Take a look at our Finance Committee chart and call your senator if he or she is from your home state.* If not, we urge you to call any democrat on the chart. When someone picks up, ask to be connected to the senator’s office.
2. Tell the staff person who answers the phone where you’re calling from and that you strongly urge your senator to vote against any anti-choice amendments in the healthcare bill.
3. The call will likely end there, but you can also mention that the healthcare reform bill should offer better and more comprehensive services and should not take away or burden vital reproductive healthcare services that so many women depend on.
4. When you’re done, please take a second to let us know you called. Click here to leave us a note.
If you really don’t want to call, the National Women’s Law Center has a petition here. Or, you know, do both.
*Pet peeve: when leadership offices get funny about calls from outside their district. For example, my mother tried calling Specter’s office once, in reference to something happening in Judiciary, and they basically blew her off because she wasn’t a Pennsylvania constituent. Well, I’m sorry, but when you set the agenda for the Judiciary Committee, your decisions impact people across the country. Just take my little “give Senate Bill Whatever a hearing” message, okay? </vent>