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SISTERSONG Collective Organizes a Southern Activist's Bus to Capitol Hill SisterSong Mobilizes to Stop the Stupak-Pitts Ban in the Senate Atlanta, GA - November 23, 2009 - SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is quickly organizing more than 50 Reproductive Health and Justice activists from Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas to rally Wednesday, December 2 on Capitol Hill countering the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) from being repeated in the Senate version. SisterSong's women of color and Indigenous members and allies will visit their respective legislators on the heels of the organization's recent member-based mobilization in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 7, 2009.
On November 7 and 9, 300 SisterSong members organized collectively and visited 40 Capitol Hill offices in support of abortion rights and immigrant health care access during critical health care reform debates in Congress. The members were among the 400+ attendees at SisterSong's National Membership Meeting November 7-9 in Washington, DC. "Unfortunately, the members of the House adopted an amendment to this otherwise laudable bill, which, if enacted, would effectively ban private abortion coverage for millions of women in the United States," according to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. SisterSong's Stupak-Pitts Ban bus route will begin in Mississippi and Georgia on Tuesday, December 1 and engage in office visits on Wednesday, December 2 and return to the South on Thursday, December 3. Activists from Louisiana and Arkansas will fly to DC. This monumental mobilization effort will strongly signal to policymakers to oppose any anti-abortion and anti-immigrant amendments from the health reform bills before Congress. The Stupak-Pitts ban would restrict abortion coverage by private health insurance plans in an unprecedented and dangerous manner, which far extends the impact of the Hyde amendment. SisterLove, Inc., Feminist Women's Health Center, and SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW will join SisterSong in the upcoming mobilization. "We want health care reform that really works, without restricting the rights of women and immigrants to obtain abortions and other reproductive health care that they need. Full reproductive health care is a human rights issue for women," says Loretta Ross, SisterSong National Coordinator. |
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