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Prevention Meets Fashion is working to ensure that our community has access to action alerts to stay up to date on advocacy that is happening to raise awareness and encourage activism.
Voting is a civil right and duty but it has not always been this way for marginalized populations, particularly Black Americans, who wanted to participate in the democratic process. Southern states legislated “Black Codes” immediately after the Civil War, denying Black people the right to vote and restricting their movement.
Many Black Americans were threatened and targeted if they tried to vote. Many of this tactics included, voter suppression, poll taxes, restrictive voter ID laws, and limited access to polls. Although the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits racially discriminatory voting tactics and policies, marginalized populations continue to face barriers when exercising their right to vote.
Voting and voting rights have a direct impact on policies. When we vote, we take action, so at PMF, we say “Vote Loud, Vote Proud!”
Support Sex Education
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs. This policy is at the forefront of debates on college campuses.
Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act (REAHYA)
The Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act (REAHYA) would fund teacher training on sex education and provide grants for comprehensive sex education to public or private entities that focus on adolescent health and education or have experience with training sex educators. In addition, REAHYA would require, rather than merely encourage, inclusiveness of LGBTQ+ youth in the funded sex education programs and would prohibit federal funding of programs that are insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of LGBTQ+ youth (https://www.hrc.org/).
Comstock Act
The Comstock Act is an 1873 law banning the mailing of obscene (definition of obscene is very vague) matter and articles used to produce abortion. This law was passed before women had the right to vote and is rarely enforced but we have concern recently about it being enforced.
Anti-abortion organizations have used the Comstock Act to justify a ban on the mailing and distribution of mifepristone, a drug that blocks a hormone called progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue. Mifepristone, when used together with another medicine called misoprostol, is used to end an intrauterine pregnancy through ten weeks gestation (70 days or less since the first day of the last menstrual period). This could stop not only Mifepristone but birth control and Plan B.
TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF $9.7 MILLION IN CONTRACEPTIVES
The U.S. State Department is about to destroy $9.7 million worth of safe, effective contraceptives—already paid for by U.S. taxpayers—that were meant to reach underserved communities around the world. These medications, which don’t expire until 2027, could help prevent over 650,000 unintended pregnancies in one year and improve health for millions.
Instead of allowing nonprofits to distribute them at no cost, the State Department is spending $200,000 to incinerate them, citing a misinterpretation of the “Mexico City Policy.” The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has made it clear: contraceptives prevent pregnancy—they do not cause abortion.
Prevention Meets Fashion (PMF) is deeply concerned about the impact this would have on our community and everyone who will be impacted by the destruction of needed contraceptives.
This is a waste of taxpayer money and a threat to global health. We’ve already seen 500 metric tons of USAID food destroyed this year—this must not happen again.
Contact your member of Congress today and urge them to stop this destruction and ensure these life-saving medications reach the people who need them. Click here to email your congressional delegation in just minutes.