Call on your Senators to help women!

Kirsten Suhr is the Associate Director of Communications for Online Strategies at NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Yesterday, the House passed the 2009 omnibus budget bill. This bill will fund the rest of the federal budget for 2009 (it's different from the budget President Obama spoke about on Tuesday night - confusing, I know). The omnibus bill included a number of pro-choice provisions. The best way to explain this bill is that funding for good programs is going up, while funding for bad ones is going down:

• Reduced funding for failed "abstinence-only" programs
• Increased funding for family planning (birth control, annual exams)
• The fix for the birth control pricing crisis

All of these provisions are great steps in the right direction, so we're really excited they made it into the bill! Now the bill needs to clear the Senate before it can be sent on to President Obama to sign.

Of course, some anti-choice Senators aren't happy about these provisions and might put up a fight. So we need your help.

Contact your Senators TODAY to tell them to support the pro-choice provisions in the omnibus budget bill.