Sen. Winder, R-Meridian, introduced SB 1349 which requires a woman to receive an ultrasound before she gets an abortion. Even though Sen. Winder took the language out of the bill requiring the vaginal procedure, very early pregnancy ultrasounds can only be done vaginally in order to get a quality picture of the fetus for a physician to answer the question on the form proposed in the bill. The woman has to pay for the procedure even though she does not want it. Currently in Idaho, doctors may offer an ultrasound to women before an abortion, give out informational pamphlets, and provide information on adoption services. Idaho places no requirements on physicians to perform ultrasounds under any other circumstances. In fact no other medical diagnostic test is mandated by Idaho statute, revealing the true intent of the bill: to shame and discourage women from receiving legal and safe abortion services.

Each and every schools day in the United Stated 7 children die from cancer and 46 children are diagnosed with cancer. It only gets a fraction of the funding that it deserves compared to all other cancers and pharmaceutical companies do not invest in reserch due to the lack of profits in developing cancer drugs for a smaller pool of patients as compared to larger groups of adult cancers. Profit should not be a factor when saving the lives of children is the topic.

I would like the State Legislature to include the Heart and Lung Act for Correctional Officers who work for the Department of Corrections. At this time they are not included and their jobs are just as critical as a Police Officer and Fireman duties. They put their lives on the line everyday and there is not provision in the Heart and Lung Act including them.

We the people have the right to know what is in our food. This petition is for mandatory labels on all food sources that contain genetically modified ingredients.

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Medicaid needs to continue to remain the way it is along with Medicare. Medicaid is for people who can not afford health care thru the private sector. Say no to Medicaid going private

These past few weeks, there has been excessive media focus on not forcing religious employers and schools to fund the sexual promiscuity of their female employee/students. However, the media has completely ignored the fact that Viagra (a drug whose sole purpose is to aide men in having an erection so that they can have sex) is funded by these same religious insurance plans. Tell congress you don't want YOUR money to fund the sexual exploits of men!

Please do not change the current law regarding abortions. As it stands, it can help women who find they have a fetus which is incredibly malformed and they, and only these women with their doctor's guidance, should be able to make the decision of not carrying it to full term. Women do not make these decisions without much thought, prayer, grief and medical guidance. They deserve to be able to continue or terminate a pregnancy where there is damage to the mother or the fetus is extremely dismembered, etc.

It is time that we permit employers of conscience to exercise their constitutionally protected beliefs and be permitted to withhold Viagra via employer provided health insurance. It is a tyrannical government that mandates I spend my hard earned money to subsidize men having sex. Erectile dysfunction should not be "the people's problem".

The President can do it, so can we. Please sign this petition to thank Sandra Fluke for standing up for women's health care in the face of shameful and unwarranted attacks by the right-wing media.

Reduce the amount Vermonters and Vermont’s employers pay for health care by passing H.64 (http://tinyurl.com/PreventionSavings). With health care costs spiraling out of control, H.64 will allow for insurance coverage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) (www.CAMaVT.org), to prevent disease before disease actually arises. It has been shown that there is an increasing rate of return by investing in preventative medicines over investing in the current medical system. H.64 Draft: “This bill proposes to require health insurance plans, including Medicaid, to provide coverage for all health care services, including complementary and alternative treatments, if at least two studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals find such services to be safe, to be directly related to statistically significant improvements in individuals’ health status, and to reduce associated medical costs.”

More people are living with and dying from HIV in the South than in any other region of the Country. We need urgent action to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southeast.