Form Letter

Senator Barack Obama said when speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, that: "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do."

I am strongly opposed to the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act". I urge you to oppose it. The sponsors of this bill openly admit that one of its main purposes is to nullify the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld. Please oppose this attempt to legalize partial-birth abortions.

In addition the Freedom of Choice Act would require federal and state funding of abortions on demand, nullify all laws requiring parental notification or consent before abortions can be performed on minor daughters, and override laws requiring waiting periods prior to abortion. The Freedom of Choice Act also eliminates regulations that protect women from unsafe abortion clinics, subjects women to abortions by non-physicians, and violates the conscience rights of nurses, doctors and hospitals.

If passed into law the Freedom of Choice Act will impose upon the entire country an abortion regime far worse that anything brought on by Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. And the current 1.1 million abortions a year will go up, not down.