Sample Letter on a Current Issue
Support Health Care Providers' Conscience Protections
Oppose President Obama's Plan to Rescind the Health Care Providers' Conscience Rule
Support the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) (S.96)
Oppose the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 570)
Letter to the President 1
(based on a Susan B. Anthony List letter)

Even after April 9, 2009, it's still not to late to make a difference on this issue.

Using the below letter or the other sample letters on this issue and the other resources related to it, please put a letter in your own words (or use a sample letter as is), and mail it to your federal House representative and your two federal senators as well as President Obama. It's much better to send a form letter than not to send a letter at all. And, let's flood the White House comments line on this issue.

Also, be sure to send your comments to the Department of Health and Human Services. Again, even after April 9, 2009, it's still not to late to make a difference on this issue.

Note: HHS will make available for public viewing all comments and the personal information (e.g., name and address) included in them.

Jane Doe
12345 Main St
Minneapolis MN 55418-3209

Date

President Barack Obama
The President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

Subject: Please...
1) Do Not Rescind the Health Care Providers' Conscience Rule
2) Support the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, ANDA (S. 96)
3) Oppose the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act (H.R. 570)

Thank you for inviting input from people as you consider rescinding the health care providers' conscience rule, conscience protections for health care providers.

Please support the conscience regulations put into effect by your predecessor. These regulations are vital to the conscience rights of health care professionals. To force a doctor, nurse, or any health care provider to violate his or her personal or religious beliefs by aiding in abortion-related activities would be a great blow to both freedom and morality in this country.

The conscience regulations also give health care professionals recourse to the HHS Office of Civil Rights and a way to press charges in the event that they experience discrimination. This is a key protection against discrimination in the work place.

Protecting American health-care workers who know that abortion is killing a human being and that birth control products often kill a preborn baby does not limit patients' access to health care. On the contrary, it is abortion that limits patients' access to health care. Because abortion is not health care; it is not medicine. Abortion harms and kills.

Along with retaining the HHS health care providers' conscience rule, please oppose the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act (H.R. 570), which would eliminate the HHS rule, and support the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, ANDA (S. 96), which is in line with the HHS rule.

By protecting the rights of doctors, nurses, and other health care entities to follow their consciences and to refuse to kill pre-born children by abortion or to provide abortifacients, you would be reducing abortions, upholding true justice, and saving many lives.

Thank you for your consideration of my position on this important issue.

I would appreciate a response to my letter.

Sincerely,

[Signature]
Jane Doe

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