When reproductive choice became the law of the land 35 years ago, it changed women's lives for ever. Many of us of a certain age remember well the horrors of the time before Roe vs. Wade.

But since that day, the law has been under constant attack, never more so than now.

If you, like most of us, want to keep abortion free, legal and rare, please put your efforts on changing these two items that will increase the number of women having to make decisions about an unintended pregnanacy:

Please contact your legislators and tell them that spending $178m on abstinence only sex education that has been proven not to work is not OK. Spend the money on proven methods - contraception for one.

And talking about contraception, check out a blog I wrote in November that has raised the price of birth control to unreachable levels. Senator Obama has entered a bill to restore and protect access to discount drug prices for university-based and safety-net clinics. And Senator Clinton is a co-sponsor. See they can get along on important issues related to women-reproductive health rights.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen