100 Ways You Can Fight for Choice
 Looking for a way to protect reproductive rights and the freedom to make the personal and private decisions about birth control and abortion? Look no further! Here is a list of 100 things you can do TODAY to fight for choice.
1. Join the Choice Action Network and receive regular updates on reproductive health issues via e-mail.
2. Register to vote and vote pro-choice. Visit the Government Accountability Board website for more information. 3. Put a NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin sign in your window. 4. Write a Letter to the Editor urging pro-choice people in your community to be vigilant about protecting a woman’s right to choose. 5. Wear a NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin button or sticker at least 15 days a year. 6. Learn the difference between Medical Abortion and Emergency Contraception. For more information, read the Emergency Contraception versus Medical Abortion fact sheet. 7. Put a NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin bumper sticker on your car. 8. Make a donation in George W. Bush’s name to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin and let him know about it. 9. Distribute NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin membership brochures to your neighbor’s or co-workers. 10. Announce a pro-choice event in your classes, workplace, or place of worship. For a list of events visit, our Community Events page. 11. Become an escort at a reproductive health clinic. 12. Go to a pro-choice rally or demonstration. Tell us about your experience. 16. Run for office on a pro-choice platform. 17. Learn about Crisis Pregnancy Centers and how they use deception and misinformation to convince women to carry out a pregnancy even if she wishes to terminate. 18. Volunteer for NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. 19. Ask your doctor if s/he offers prescriptions for Emergency Contraception to teens under 18, and if not, why not. Email the response to info@prochoicewisconsin.org 20. Tell four friends about the threats facing the right to choose. Then bring them to a NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin fundraising event. 21. Start a Campus Organization on your campus. 22. Volunteer on a pro-choice candidate’s campaign. 23. Have a bake sale or garage sale and send the proceeds to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. 24. Ask your state legislators not to restrict Mifeprex ® (formerly RU 486). To find out who your state legislators are, click here. 25. Stay informed! Watch your local papers for news about the most recent attempts to roll back a woman’s right to choose. Mail NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin new clippings. 26. Ask your doctor if s/he offers Mifeprex and if not, why not. Email his or her response to info@prochoicewisconsin.org 27. Talk to your mother, sister, aunt, or daughter about how the pro-choice position improves women’s lives. 28. Ask ten of your friends to make a contribution to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Send them to our website, to make a secure donation. 29. Thank a Member of Congress from your state for fighting for choice. To find your congressional representative or senators click here. 30. Give NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin buttons, t-shirts, and stickers to your friends and family for their birthdays and the holidays. 31. Send a letter of appreciation to your reproductive health care provider. 32. Send letters to ten friends asking them to join NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, include a return envelope with first class stamp. 33. Begin your home answering machine message with the words, “Thank you for calling a pro-choice household!” 34. Send NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin pro-choice resources to members of your city council and ask your mayor to visit www.prochoicewisconsin.org35. Hold a screening and discussion of The Education of Shelby Knox at your home.
36. Check NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin’s online Take Action Center regularly to learn ways you can help pass pro-choice legislation. 37. Pledge to give NARAL Pro Choice Wisconsin $15.00 per month until we have a pro-choice president. To make a secure donation online, click here. 38. Set your Internet browser home page on www.prochoicewisconsin.org 39. Know your rights. Get a copy of Who Decides: A State-by-State Review of Abortion and Reproductive Rights from NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Ask for an extra copy and donate it to your local library. 42. Link your personal Web site to the NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin webpage and encourage 4 friends to do the same. 43. Get a personalized pro-choice license plate. 44. Make the NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin logo your screen saver or wall paper. 45. Support Wisconsin pro-choice campus groups. 46. Donate to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin in the name of a friend or loved one as a gift. To make a secure donation online, click here. 47. Speak out when someone presents an anti-choice myth as fact. 48. When you meet an elected official or candidate, ask if s/he’s pro-choice. Donate your time or money only to those candidates who are pro-choice. 49. Talk to your husband, father uncle or son about how the pro-choice position improves women’s lives. 50. If you have a personal story about abortion, share it with a friend. 51. Visit and support only pro-choice doctors. 52. Find out if your insurance plan covers the full range of reproductive health services, including contraception and abortion; if not, ask them to expand their coverage. Or encourage your employer to choose a different health plan. 53. Urge your union to negotiate for health insurance coverage that includes the full range of reproductive health services, including contraception and abortion. Or start a workplace organizing initiative for contraceptive coverage. 54. Call into a talk radio program and discuss the ways in which George W. Bush is restricting reproductive choice. 55. 93% of Wisconsin counties do not have an abortion provider. Join a program that gives rides to women who do not have a provider in their county.
56. Learn whether your elected officials are pro-choice.57. Talk to your kids about safe sex. 58. Organize a bowl-a-thon, pool-a-thon, or an “a-thon” of your choice; send the proceeds to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. To make a secure donation online, click here. 59. Give your talents-become a board or committee member of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. For more information, email kelda@prochoicewisconsin.org 60. If you know someone who has chosen to have an abortion, support her before, during and after the procedure.
61. Revise your will to include NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. To learn more, email Kelda@prochoicewisconsin.org. 62. Start a grassroots lobbying team. Bring local pro-choice activists together and work with NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin to get the most recent pro-choice messages to your legislators. 63. Solicit small businesses, churches or civic groups in your area; ask them to support NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. 64. Laura Bush has said that Roe v. Wade “should not be overturned.” Thank her for speaking out and tell her husband to listen. 65. Read NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin's most recent newsletter. 66. Visit your county or city clerk and become authorized to register people to vote. Register at least 10 new pro-choice voters. 67. Ask 5-10 people to save all their change for 2-3 months. You save yours. Count it all and send a check to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. To make a secure donation online, click here. 68. Make sure your teenager’s sex education class curriculum includes information about the full range of reproductive health services, including contraception, emergency contraception and abortion. Email us at info@prochoicewisconsin.org and tell us what you found out. 69. Host a house party and talk about what being pro-choice means to you. 70. Start a book club and discuss books with pro-choice themes, such as How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page.
71. Get your prescriptions from pro-choice pharmacists. 72. Send an e-mail to your friends that includes the www.prochoicewisconsin.org link asking them to make a contribution. Then ask them to pass the e-mail to ten friends. 73. Write to your legislators and ask them to make it mandatory for insurance companies to cover contraception if they cover other prescription drugs. To find your legislators click here. 74. Take part in a lobby day with NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin and talk to your legislators about choice. 75. E-mail your friends and family before elections, remind them to vote and tell them which candidates are pro-choice.
76. Send your tax refund to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. To make a secure donation online, click here. 77. Ask your doctor how to use your birth control pills as emergency contraception. 78. Write a column for your local or school newspaper explaining the threats to choice. 79. On your birthday, have a party. Ask your friends to give a donation to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin in lieu of gifts. They can make a secure donation online. 80. Volunteer at a reproductive health clinic or hospital as a translator to ensure full communication on reproductive health needs among non-native English speakers.
81. Support child-friendly workplaces. 82. Ask Governor Doyle to veto anti-choice legislation. 83. Conduct a raffle and send the proceeds to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. To make a secure donation online, click here. 84. Check with your hospital to ensure that it provides Emergency Contraception to rape survivors; if it doesn’t, demand that it begin to do so. 87. Ask your state legislators not to let anti-choice politics interfere with science. Ask them to oppose restrictions on stem cell research. To find your legislators click here. 88. Join a political party and encourage the party to recruit and support pro-choice candidates. 89. If you receive or hear about biased, anti-choice pregnancy counseling, report it to the state board of medicine or state attorney general. Email your experiences to info@prochoicewisconsin.org 90. Help low-income women have access to abortion-donate to an abortion fund.
91. Make sure your state political party platform fully supports the right to choose; if it doesn’t, join the platform committee. 92. Consider going to medical school to become an abortion provider. 93. Support public funding for abortion for low- income women, women in the military and women in prison. 94. Support dramatic funding increases in public funding for contraception. 95. Urge your federal legislators to repeal the global “gag” rule. To find your federal legislator click here.
96. Urge the National Institutes of Health to boost research on new contraceptive technologies to give women more options. 97. Make sure your school’s clinics provide Emergency Contraception; publicize its availability. 98. Ask your religious leader to speak out on the ethics of being pro-choice. 99. Do you remember what it was like before Roe v. Wade? Tell a young woman. 100. Speak out against President Bush’s anti-family planning agenda- he says he wants to reduce the need for abortion, but restricted access to family planning on the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade- his second day in office.
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