ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition

WOMENS HEALTH RIGHTS COALITION Petition

HEALTH & JUSTICE NOW! WOMEN & COMMUNITIES DEMANDING HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!

959 signatures

About this Petition:

At this critical moment in the national health care reform debate, ACCESS & California Latinas for Reproductive Justice are working together to help us all demand reproductive justice for low-income women and women of color. The following petition asks our Congressional leaders to ensure affordable health coverage is available to all Californians and provides comprehensive health benefits, including the broad spectrum of reproductive health services. Please read and sign-on below! Your Voice Matters!

In order to ensure the needs of low-income women, women of color and their families are addressed, health care reform legislation must ensure the following:

• Health coverage must include comprehensive reproductive health services.

In order to promote the health and well-being of women, their families and communities, any standard of care and benefits adopted must include access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion services.

• Health coverage must be accessible to all persons residing in the U.S.!

Guaranteeing access to health coverage requires that everyone be eligible regardless of a person’s age, gender, marital status, geography, family composition, economic status, employment, pre-existing conditions, health status, sexuality, immigrant status, or any other category.

• Health coverage must be affordable for women of color and their families.

Women of color are concentrated in low-wage and/or part-time jobs that do not offer health coverage at all or offer coverage that is too costly. Overall, eight out of ten uninsured women are in working families. While low-income women comprise the majority of uninsured women, lack of coverage affects women of all income levels.

Follow this link to the full petition: http://groups.google.com/group/RJHeal...