NARAL Pro-Choice America Announces Endorsement of Kerry; Plan For Aggressive Campaign Effort Includes Missouri!
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENT OF KERRY; PLAN FOR AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN EFFORT
Pro-Choice Effort Will Feature TV Ads, Targeted Grassroots Tactics,
and Significant Online Campaign at www.BushvChoice.com
Washington, DC – NARAL Pro-Choice America, the leading national advocate for personal privacy and a woman’s right to choose, today announced its endorsement of John Kerry for President of the United States, and unveiled its aggressive plan to protect the future of choice by defeating George W. Bush.
The pro-choice group will work to activate pro-choice voters in key states through an aggressive mix of television advertising, grassroots organizing and online advocacy. Efforts will feature such Bush Administration actions as its attempt to seize the private medical records of women who’ve had abortions, the President’s signing of the first federal abortion ban in history, and his appointment of radical anti-choice judges to lifetime seats on federal courts -- as well as the potential for two or more Supreme Court vacancies in the next four years. Because of its MCFL legal status, NARAL Pro-Choice America possesses the ability to conduct express advocacy campaigns up to Election Day in a way that most other organizations cannot.
NARAL Pro-Choice America’s President, Kate Michelman, said: “The choice for pro-choice voters is clear – and the stakes could not be higher. If George Bush is re-elected, the future of reproductive freedom is in the hands of someone who has violated women’s privacy, criminalized women’s medical choices and pledged to do everything in his power to restrict safe and legal abortion.”
Michelman added: “John Kerry will be a President pro-choice Americans can rely on. He understands that our private lives are private, and will make sure that Roe v Wade remains the law of the land. Throughout his public life, Senator Kerry has been a leader on women’s issues such as protecting the right to choose and preventing domestic violence.”
The organization – which has a targeted list of more than four million pro-choice voters across the country -- will focus its efforts on 14 battleground states: California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
The all-out effort will include:
• A significant broadcast advertising campaign, taking advantage of the organization’s significant status as an MCFL organization, which allows it to call directly for Kerry’s election within the last 60 days of the campaign;
• Focused grassroots activism, working with the network of NARAL Pro-Choice America affiliates, and the Choice Action Network of more than one half million volunteers – combining phone banks, canvassing, direct mail, and email organizing; and
• An unprecedented online advocacy campaign, based at a special state-of-the-art campaign Web site, www.BushvChoice.com.
To support this campaign, NARAL Pro-Choice America has launched its Choice 2004 Fund campaign, led by Governors Bill Richardson (NM), Ed Rendell (PA), Tom Vilsack (IA), Jim Doyle (WI), Rod Blagojavich (IL), Gary Locke (WA) and Ted Kulongoski (OR).
Contact: David Seldin, (202)973-3032
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