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sunlit_music) wrote2010-05-10 07:57 pm
sunlit_music) wrote2010-05-10 07:57 pm
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Petitions - prevent US mothers from dying, fight racist Arizona law
Hello everyone,
The text in italics is from the websites below. Please read ahead, and tell everyone you know! Both are urgent issues.
Urge US to prevent maternal deaths:
Linda Coale, a healthy 35-year-old woman who died just days after giving birth to her son, Benjamin. Her age and delivery via c-section made her a high-risk case, yet no one – nurse, doctor, hospital welcome packet – told her to watch for signs of a blood clot.
She slipped through the cracks and died.
Benjamin, now 2, can’t celebrate Mother’s Day with his mom. But you can help save another son or daughter the heartbreak of growing up without a mother. In 40 countries women have a lower risk of maternal death than in the United States, and all of those countries spend less on health care.
Amnesty’s work on maternal health tackles the root causes of preventable maternal death such as discrimination, inadequate care and lack of secure access to care. Our goal is to make safe birth a top priority in the U.S. health system.
Our strategy has worked to make substantive changes and save women’s lives in Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. Now it’s time to rise up for American women and children.
Help families celebrate a thousand more Mother’s Days with a gift to Amnesty International today.
Donate here:
Arizona's new anti-immigration law
Players are demanding the 2011 All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix, AZ unless the new law - which allows police to stop anyone they "reasonably" suspect of being in the country illegally - is repealed.
It's time we get the players' backs. I just signed a petition urging MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to move the game--can you join me at the link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/move_the_game
Thank you so much!
The text in italics is from the websites below. Please read ahead, and tell everyone you know! Both are urgent issues.
Urge US to prevent maternal deaths:
Linda Coale, a healthy 35-year-old woman who died just days after giving birth to her son, Benjamin. Her age and delivery via c-section made her a high-risk case, yet no one – nurse, doctor, hospital welcome packet – told her to watch for signs of a blood clot.
She slipped through the cracks and died.
Benjamin, now 2, can’t celebrate Mother’s Day with his mom. But you can help save another son or daughter the heartbreak of growing up without a mother. In 40 countries women have a lower risk of maternal death than in the United States, and all of those countries spend less on health care.
Amnesty’s work on maternal health tackles the root causes of preventable maternal death such as discrimination, inadequate care and lack of secure access to care. Our goal is to make safe birth a top priority in the U.S. health system.
Our strategy has worked to make substantive changes and save women’s lives in Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. Now it’s time to rise up for American women and children.
Help families celebrate a thousand more Mother’s Days with a gift to Amnesty International today.
Donate here:
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=deIFJRMsG5IHL3J&s=hlKXJdNRKdKULfP1IwG&m=9sLJK0MFKfIYKhI
Arizona's new anti-immigration law
Players are demanding the 2011 All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix, AZ unless the new law - which allows police to stop anyone they "reasonably" suspect of being in the country illegally - is repealed.
It's time we get the players' backs. I just signed a petition urging MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to move the game--can you join me at the link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/move_the_game
Thank you so much!