Lack of Healthcare Accessibility Affects Every Patient, Every Nurse, Every Hospital.

[RNGoldie]

Hello!

I've started the petition "Governor Rick Perry: Stop Limiting Access to Healthcare for Low-Income Women" and need your help to get it off the ground.

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/governor-rick-perry-stop-limiting-access-to-healthcare-for-low-income-women

Here's why it's important:

Governor Rick Perry is using women as political pawns. His fight to exclude Planned Parenthood from the Women's Health Program is placing women's health at risk. Planned Parenthood has provided life-saving healthcare interventions, such as cancer screenings and HIV testing, and preventive care including well woman exams and prenatal care for nearly half of Texas' low-income and uninsured woman. Hundreds of thousands of Texan woman will go without the crucial healthcare that they need because of Governor Perry's war against Planned Parenthood. Texas was already in a health crisis before Governor Perry launched his assault against Planned Parenthood and women's health due to a widespread physician shortage. Now as a result of his actions low-income women and families will have even less access to healthcare providers. Furthermore, limiting access further affects everyone's healthcare by creating an even larger burden on already overcrowded emergency rooms and charitable clinics.

Governor Perry has instead increased funding to faith-based "clinics" which do not actually provide any healthcare at all. Women's health affects everyone. Without healthy women there are no healthy children, no healthy families. Texas women need to stand together to let Governor Perry and other Texas officials know that we are capable of choosing our own healthcare providers and we will not allow their own personal beliefs and politics jeopardize our health. Please join me in the fight to keep the government out the patient-provider relationship.

You can sign my petition by clicking here.

Thanks!

Jessica Goldmeier

[tewdles, RN]

This may show up as a double post...sorry if it does.

I don't equate making choices and tools available to sexually active young adults with encouraging them to engage in that activity.

[uRNmyway, ASN, RN]

This may show up as a double post...sorry if it does.

I don't equate making choices and tools available to sexually active young adults with encouraging them to engage in that activity.

No, it doesn't. But it might make them take more risks, use less protection, thus increasing STI risks... Young girls often only think of pregnancy as a risk to unprotected sex. Remove the worry of pregnancy, potentially see incidence of STI go up.

[SuzieVN]

Well I think that the point with this is forcing people who are very much against something to pay for it for someone else. If something is going to be paid for with tax dollars by these people, it should reflect the values of the majority, shouldn't it?

Here's a thought- pay for contraception? Oh, forgot- that's against the conservative mindset, as well. MY BAD.

[tewdles, RN]

I think young people have been engaged in adolescent sex for as long as there have been adolescents, they specialize in risky behavior, always have.

[SuzieVN]

I think young people have been engaged in adolescent sex for as long as there have been adolescents, they specialize in risky behavior, always have.

NO way!!! :)

[SuzieVN]

No, it doesn't. But it might make them take more risks, use less protection, thus increasing STI risks... Young girls often only think of pregnancy as a risk to unprotected sex. Remove the worry of pregnancy, potentially see incidence of STI go up.

I'll say it again and again, a 'must see' fillm, free on hulu.com "The Pill"