Dear Dot Calm's Shadow,

It's been three months since the first heavily edited, deceptive video by the Center for Medical Progress was released with the sole intent of dragging down Planned Parenthood. Since then, at least 7 state-level investigations and four federal inquiries have found no evidence of wrongdoing at any of Planned Parenthood's clinics.¹

Anti-choice politicians are *obsessed* with restricting abortion access by any means necessary. That's why the House voted to create a special Benghazi-style committee to attack and investigate Planned Parenthood—despite how totally redundant that is.

Luckily, House Democrats get to pack the committee, too—and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just announced an ideal list of pro-choice all-stars.²

Will you add your name to tell these pro-choice champs you stand with them as they defend Planned Parenthood and fight off relentless, outrageous attacks?

When Pelosi released her list of names, we were thrilled. Pro-choice heroes like Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Suzan DelBene (Wash.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.) will be on the frontlines defending reproductive freedom. Speier even spoke passionately about her own abortion on the House floor in 2011—the last time the House tried to defund the nation's most trusted provider of women's health care.³

But they'll have to go up against a tough roster of anti-choice Republican representatives who will be determined to drag Planned Parenthood's name through the mud just like they tried to do to Hillary Clinton at last month's Benghazi hearing.

These representatives will need to know we've got their backs. Click here to add your name.

We'll be sure to keep you in the loop on how the committee progresses in the coming months. Thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom.


Sasha Bruce
Senior Vice President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Sources:

1. Missouri Joins Growing List of States Unable to Pin Anything on Planned Parenthood, New York Magazine, September 29, 2015.
2. Pelosi picks six Dems for Planned Parenthood panel, The Hill, November 4, 2015.
3. California congresswoman who had abortion to serve on Planned Parenthood committee, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2015.