PLEASE sign this NARAL petition?! Kroger and their refusal to fill Plan B Prescriptions.

[in_cog_ni_to]

:grr:


Dear ******,

One year ago today, the Bush administration's FDA finally approved Plan B® - also known as emergency contraception - for over-the-counter sales to women age 18 and older. That fight lasted more than three years.

Now, we're making sure that pharmacies across the country actually have it in stock so women can access it.

The Kroger Co. is one of the nation's largest grocery and pharmacy retailers - operating more than 1,921 stores like Ralphs, Dillons, Fred Meyer, and Smith's in 31 states across the country. What you may not know is that the Kroger Co. has published conflicting statements on its Plan B® stocking and refusal policy.

YOU can help change that. We've launched a nationwide campaign to call on the Kroger Co. to adopt a policy to ensure that women can access Plan B® at all of its pharmacies. Click here to add your signature to our petition now. Just a few months ago, a Kroger pharmacist in Georgia sent 42-year-old college professor and mother of two Carrie Baker away empty-handed when she tried to purchase Plan B®. NARAL Pro-Choice America believes that pharmacists should never prevent any woman from accessing safe, legal birth control like Plan B®.

Do you agree? Then sign our petition today!

After our volunteer efforts showed that more than one in five local Kroger Co. pharmacies contacted don't stock Plan B®, we decided we had to step up our campaign.

On this important anniversary, please help ensure that women across the country can access Plan B® at any Kroger Co. pharmacy without harassment or delay.

http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/planb_kroger

My best,
Nancy Keenan
Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

This message is part of NARAL Pro-Choice America's Prevention First initiative to advance commonsense policy solutions to prevent unintended pregnancies and therefore reduce the need for abortion. To find out more about our Plan B®: Where's Yours? campaign, visit our website.

[bdamomma]

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[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Thank you, alyce!

:hug:

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Done...you can also contact Kroger directly at...

http://www.thekrogerco.com/contact/contactus_form.htm

or call Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. eastern time 1-866-221-4141

[IndianaJones]

4. done. nt.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Aren't several of their stores involved in the recent

carrot recall. Play that up.

[tanyev]

6. A tiny quibble with your title.

Because Plan B is not a prescription, which makes their refusal to sell it even more appalling.

[Extend a Hand]

7. K&R

signed and kicked and recommended

[BlooInBloo]

8. Fuck NARAL...

Wonderful cause, of course, if only they ACTUALLY supported it, rather than simply paying lipservice to it.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/18/dont-reward-failure-by-giving-money-to-naral/

I'm sure Nancy Keenan is licking her sweet chops over the latest SCOTUS decision. It is, after all, probably going to be the biggest fundraising opportunity she's had during her tenure at NARAL. Bigger even than Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement. Remember that one?

"NARAL Pro-Choice America surpassed its fundraising goals in the hours following Justice O'Connor's announcement," said President Nancy Keenan. Donors "are deeply concerned that President Bush will choose to further divide this nation by nominating a radical right-wing conservative."

Moderation is not the tone of fundraising appeals in the nomination contest. "This is big, people. Huge," NARAL wrote to supporters. "It's true, there is no freedom without choice. Without choice, we are not free."

And what did they do with all that cash? They sat on it and didn't do a damn thing, didn't lift a finger to fight Samuel Alito. Worse yet, when the Gang of 14 decided to vote in favor of cloture, they said that they did not consider cloture votes "significant" and would not be considering them in their scorecard. They then went on to add insult to injury by asking their membership to thank Lincoln Chafee and Joe Lieberman for the beatings they delivered with their "aye" cloture vote by pretending that their "nay" floor votes were significant. They then poured salt into the wound by endorsing both "short ride" Lieberman and Chafee over their opponents who made it clear that they would not have voted for cloture for Alito, which gave us the 5-4 decision we have today.

Don't reward failure. Tell your friends. Don't give money to NARAL when they come knocking on your door to tell you that choice is going down the crapper unless you give them a lot of money, because what you'll be giving money for is Nancy Keenan's ability to point her little pinky over tea at Washington cocktail parties and tut-tut over the state of choice in this country at the hands of the fundamentalists. She'll take no responsibility for the fact that NARAL will not fight, will not back those that fight, and worse yet, that NARAL sucks up all the pro-choice money so nobody else can mount a meaningful fight, either.

[me b zola]

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