100 Ways to Fight 4 Choice
1.Sign up for the Choice Action Network and receive regular updates on
reproductive health issues via e-mail.
2.Register to vote and vote pro-choice.
3.Tell your U.S. Senators to vote against any Supreme Court justice nominee
who supports restrictions on choice.
4.Write a letter to the editor urging pro-choice people in your community to be
vigilant about protecting a woman's right to choose.
5.Wear a pro-choice button or sticker at least 15 days out of every year.
6.Learn the difference between MifeprexTM (formerly RU-486) and Emergency
Contraceptives.
7.Put a pro-choice bumper sticker on your car. Or put a pro-choice sign in your
window.
8.Make a donation in George W. Bush's name and let him know about it.
9.Distribute NARAL membership brochures to your neighbors or co-workers.
Email membership@naral.org to request brochures.
10.Announce a pro-choice event in your classes, workplace, or place of worship.
Then attend and bring a friend.
11.Become an escort at a reproductive health clinic.
12.Go to a pro-choice rally or demonstration. Or plan a rally, house party, or
other pro-choice event.
13.Intern with a pro-choice organization.
14.Ask your clergyperson about your church or synagogue's position on choice.
15.Ask your local school board members or principal whether the schools in your
area teach comprehensive sexuality education. Then send them NARAL's
sexuality education resources.
16.Run for office on a pro-choice platform.
17.Dial 1-877-YOU-DECIDE to order one of NARAL's Choice Action Kits. Choose
from action kits about unmasking fake clinics, comprehensive sex education
in schools, and expanding health insurance coverage of contraceptives. Or
collect all three!
18.Volunteer for your local NARAL affiliate.
19.Ask your doctor if s/he offers Emergency Contraception and if not, why not.
20.Tell four friends about the threat facing the right to choose. Then bring them
to a NARAL fundraising event.
21.Organize volunteers into a Choice Action Team at your campus or in your
neighborhood. Contact your local NARAL affiliate for more information.
22.Volunteer on a pro-choice candidate's campaign.
23.Have a bake sale or garage sale and send the proceeds to NARAL.
24.Ask your state legislators oppose restrictions on MifeprexTM (formerly
RU-486).
25.Stay informed! Watch your local papers,and bookmark Choice in the
Headlines for news about the most recent attempts to roll back a woman's
right to choose.
26.Ask your doctor if s/he offers MifeprexTM (formerly RU-486), and if not, why
not.
27.Talk to your mother, sister, aunt, or daughter about how the pro-choice
position improves women's lives.
28.Ask ten of your friends to make a contribution to NARAL and support the
Fight 4 Choice.
29.Thank a Member of Congress from your state for Fighting 4 Choice.
30.Give NARAL buttons and stickers to your friends and family for their
birthdays and the holidays. Email membership@naral.org for information.
31.Send a letter of appreciation to your reproductive health care provider.
32.Send letters to ten friends asking them to join NARAL; include a return
envelope with first class stamp.
33.Begin your home answering machine message with the words, "Thank you for
a calling a pro-choice household!"
34.Send NARAL's pro-choice resources to members of your city council and ask
your mayor to visit naral.org.
35.Hold a screening and discussion of The Cider House Rules at your home.
36.Check the Fight 4 Choice online Take Action section at
www.fight4choice.com/action/ regularly to find letters to send to your U.S.
Senators and Representatives regarding reproductive choice.
37.Pledge to give NARAL $15.00 per month until we have a pro-choice president.
38.Set your internet browser home page on fight4choice.com.
39.Know your rights: get Who Decides: A State-by-State Review of Abortion and
Reproductive Rights from the NARAL Foundation. Ask for an extra copy and
donate it to your local library.
40.Write "Visit www.Fight4Choice.com TODAY!" after your name on all of your
e-mails. Or add a url to your email "signature" that links to the
fight4choice.com website.
41.Contribute an entry to the Truth Squad at
fight4choice.com and help NARAL track George
W. Bush's attempts to limit reproductive freedom and choice.
42.Add a link on your personal website to fight4choice.com and
encourage four friends to do the same.
43.Get a personalized pro-choice license plate. For example: prochoice, 4choice,
im4choice, choice4all, choice4u, ru4choice, mom4choice, dad4choice,
gop4choice, dem4choice, etc.
44.Make the Fight4Choice logo your screen saver or wallpaper.
45.When you meet an elected offical or candidate, ask if s/he's pro-choice.
Donate your time or money only to those candidates who are pro-choice.
46.Buy two "gift memberships" in NARAL and send them to two friends.
47.Speak out when someone presents an anti-choice myth as fact. Be prepared
— learn the real facts at
naral.org.
48.Buy a book about the history of a woman's right to choose. Give it to your
niece, daughter or sister.
49.Talk to your husband, father, uncle or son about how the pro-choice position
improves women's lives.
50.If you have a personal story about abortion, share it with a friend.
51.Visit and support only pro-choice doctors.
52.Find out if your insurance plan covers the full range of reproductive health
services, including contraception and abortion; if not, ask them to expand
their coverage. Or encourage your employer to choose a different health
plan.
53.Urge your union to negotiate for health insurance coverage that includes the
full range of reproductive health services, including contraception and
abortion. Or start a workplace organizing initiative for contraceptive
coverage.
54.Call into a talk radio program and discuss the ways in which George W. Bush
is restricting reproductive choice.
55.Find out how many abortion providers there are in your state. Join a program
that gives rides to women who do not have abortion providers in their state.
56.Ask your governor to press for contraceptive coverage legislation.
57.Talk to your kids about safe sex.
58.Organize a bowl-a-thon, pool-a-thon, or an "a-thon" of your choice; send the
proceeds to NARAL.
59.Give your talents — become a board or committee member of a pro-choice
organization.
60.If you know someone who has chosen to have an abortion, support her
before, during and after the procedure.
61.Revise your will to include NARAL.
62.Start a grassroots lobbying team. Bring local pro-choice activists together
and work with NARAL to get the most recent pro-choice messages to your
legislators. Contact the NARAL affiliate in your state for more information.
63.Solicit small businesses, churches, or civic groups in your area; ask them to
support NARAL.
64.Laura Bush has said that Roe v. Wade "should not be overturned." Thank her
for speaking out and tell her husband to listen.
65.Ask your church to use their second Sunday donation for NARAL.
66.Visit your county or city clerk and become authorized to register people to
vote. Register at least 10 new pro-choice voters.
67.Ask 5-10 people to save all their change for 2-3 months. You save yours.
Count it all and send a check to NARAL.
68.Make sure your teenager's sex education class curriculum includes
information about the full range of reproductive health services, including
contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion.
69.Host a choice conversation and talk about what being pro-choice means to
you.
70.Start a book club and discuss books with pro-choice themes, such as Protect
and Defend by Richard North Patterson.
71.Get your prescriptions from pro-choice pharmacists.
72.Send an e-mail to your friends (that includes the www.fight4choice.com link)
asking them to make a contribution. Then ask them to pass the e-mail to ten
friends.
73.Write to your legislators and ask them to make it mandatory for insurance
companies to cover contraception if they cover other prescription drugs.
74.Take part in a lobby day with your NARAL affiliate and talk to your legislators
about choice.
75.E-mail your friends and family before the elections, remind them to vote and
tell them which candidates are pro-choice.
76.Send your tax refund to NARAL.
77.Ask your doctor how to use your birth control pills as emergency
contraception.
78.Write a column for your local or school newspaper explaining the threats to
choice.
79.On your birthday, have a party. Ask your friends to give a donation to NARAL
in lieu of gifts.
80.Volunteer at a reproductive health clinic or hospital as a translator to ensure
full communication on reproductive health needs among non-native English
speakers.
81.Support child-friendly workplaces.
82.Ask your governor to veto anti-choice legislation.
83.Conduct a raffle and send the proceeds to NARAL.
84.Check with your hospital to ensure that it provides Emergency Contraception
to rape survivors; if it doesn't, demand that it begin to do so.
85.If you are at a college or university, sign up for the Student Organizer
Listserv.
86.Keep up with reproductive rights legislation in your state — visit
www.mail.naral.org/longdoc.nsf.
87.Ask your state legislators not to let anti-choice politics interfere with
science. Ask them to oppose restrictions on stem cell research.
88.Join a political party and encourage the party to recruit and support
pro-choice candidates.
89.If you receive or hear about biased, anti-choice pregnancy counseling, report
it to the state board of medicine or state attorney general.
90.Help low-income women obtain equal access to abortion services — donate to
an abortion fund.
91.Find out if your state political party platform fully supports the right to
choose; if it doesn't, join the platform committee.
92.Consider going to medical school to become an abortion provider.
93.Support public funding that assists low-income women, women in the
military, women on Native American reservations, and women in prison who
need abortion services.
94.Support dramatic increases in public funding for contraception.
95.Urge your federal legislators to repeal the "global gag rule."
96.Urge the National Institutes of Health to boost research on new contraceptive
technologies to give women more options. You can contact the division that
researches contraceptives (The National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development) at nichd.nih.gov
97.Make sure your school's clinics provide Emergency Contraception; publicize its
availability.
98.Ask your religious leader to speak out on the ethics of being pro-choice.
99.Do you remember what it was like before Roe v. Wade? Tell a young woman.
100.Speak out against President Bush's anti-family planning agenda — he says he
wants to reduce the need for abortion, but restricted access to international
family planning on the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — his second day in
office.
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