News Round-Up: Monday, August 4, 2008

--> Via RH Reality Check, Minnesota lawmakers fight proposed HHS regs:

"Last year, legislators on both sides of the debate over reproductive rights united behind a measure that provides rape survivors with the emergency contraception that could help prevent a pregnancy after a violent attack," said Linnea House, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota. "Gov. Pawlenty recognized the strong public support behind this common sense measure and signed it into law. Now, just one year after the law took effect, we are urging him to call on the Bush administration to stop an attack on birth control that would undermine this state law."

Well done NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota. If you're from Minnesota, use this information to write to Gov. Pawlenty today... and for the rest of the non-Minnesota residents, you can take action here.

--> Via the The Denver Post, Issue advocates plan to preach to the crowds:

Most advocates say they want to use the convention to keep their issues burning in a fall election already crowded with voter worries of an ongoing war and a struggling economy... But does it have any effect?

A NARAL Pro-Choice America spokesman said the abortion-rights organization's membership grew by more than 4,000 people after an Internet drive during the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston.

I enjoyed this article so much because it made me excited for the great stuff NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado affiliate, has in store for the Democratic National Convention!

--> Via the Los Angeles Times, more on Bush's attack on birth control: Abortion proposal sparks furious debate.