"This Year Should America Vote Pro-Choice?”
Mary Alice Carr
V.P. for Communications
NARAL Pro-Choice New York
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In the March 2008 episode of Future Choices, "This Year Should America Vote Pro-Choice?”, we take a careful look at the Presidential candidates to determine who demonstrates quantifiable pro-choice qualities. We then turn our attention to Albany for information about pivotal upcoming legislation which will impact the ability of New York residents to exercise Choice in the privacy of their own homes, doctors' office and schools.
Our informant is Mary Alice Carr, V.P. for Communications of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. She brings the Presidential campaign into a Choice perspective:
- Which candidate is really ‘pro-choice?”
- Which is going to ensure that women’s reproductive health will be central to their health care plan?
- What is NARAL doing to re-focus national political discussion on Choice matters?
Subsequent to Mary Alice's appearance on Future Choices NARAL Pro-Choice America's political action committee endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president, a move that drew criticism from EMILY's List, whose endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) was articulated in the Future Choices show aired in April. Read MORE about clash between these two pro-choice PACs.
We also learn from Mary Alice about several bills which will be considered by the New York State Legislature in the 2008 session. Choice advocates need to assertively lobby their State Assemblyperson and their Senator to ensure the passage of:
- Reproductive Health & Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP) to protect the fundamental right of women to control their personal reproductive health decisions, including the right to choose or refuse contraception and abortion care. |MORE
- Healthy Teens Act to help schools and communities provide teens with real sex education and strengthen parent-teen communication. |MORE
- Legislation to improve access of minors and undocumented women to Emergency Contraception. |MORE
Another central focus for NARAL this year is an extensive information campaign to enhance access to Gardasil, the vaccine against cancer-causing HPV which was approved in 2006 by the FDA.
NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the New York State Affiliate of Pro-Choice America, works
- to protect safe, legal abortion,
- to expand the full range of reproductive rights for women regardless of age, race or income,
- to remove obstacles to health care which New York women face today.
Mary Alice Carr is Vice President of Communications for NARAL Pro-Choice New York overseeing all media, messaging and materials. She serves as an organization’s spokesperson and press director, appearing on local and national news programs including MSNBC, CNN, and as a counterpoint on several Fox News programs such as The O’Reilly Factor and The Neil Cavuto Show. Read further
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