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Chances are the economy has been on your mind lately. I know it has been on mine. One way or another it is affecting us all. You may find yourself cutting back.... or feeling anxious about the future.
Imagine being a single mom trying to take care of your child on $1200 a month in this economy. Now imagine that you find out you are pregnant, and the abortion you want is going to cost almost half a month's pay.
How could you possibly come up with the $550 you need to pay for your abortion ?? How could you even pay for contraceptives to prevent another pregnancy ??

Wages are down. Costs are up. And the most marginalized people in our society are the hardest hit: low income women, people of color, and immigrants.

It has never been harder for women to scrape together money on their own for their abortions. In the best of times, women have to use money they need for basic necessities to help pay for real reproductive choice. Imagine what it is like today !
That is why we have never needed you more. Women Have Options helps Ohio women with the costs of contraception and abortion. We work with clinics all over the state.

Please help us continue to help women in desperate circumstances by sending a contribution today. You can contribute on line at www.womenhaveoptions.org or you can send a check to Women Have Options, P.O. Box 5, Granville, OH, 43023. We appreciate your help which makes an immense difference in the lives of women in our communities.

How good an idea is that ??? Women Have Options (www.womenhaveoptions.org) helps women all over Ohio with the costs of abortion and contraception. You can support women's reproductive choice AND earn a free pint of Graeter's icecream by sending a check
(minimum $25.00) to WHO/O, P.O. Box 5, Granville OH 43023. Be sure to include a note that says "Tell Emily". Or donate on line. (This offer is good until November 15,2008 for the first 10 people who donate.)

Women Have Options ( www.womenhaveoptions.org ) need your help in supporting women's reproductive rights. Justice demands that ALL women be able to make personal decisions about childbearing. Access to conraceptives or abortion should never be denied because of inability to raise enough money to pay for services.
Please join us in protecting women's lives and women's futures !

Did you know that donations may be made through United Way ? Choose the 'Donor Option' and name Women Have Options to receive your dollars. You can also contribute on our website

We help women all over Ohio. We would particularly like to contact pro-choice women in the Appalachian counties of Ohio. It is difficult to get our message out and to reach women who need the financial help we offer.

Please check out our website - we could use some help there also. And you can send e-mail to us or contribute at the website.

I wrote this October 1, 2007, but it seems to have a different date and I have no ideas how to correct that !

Women Have Options is a grass roots group which has been in existence since 1992. Our mission is to support the right of every woman to make her own reproductive decisions. We provide financial help for contraception or abortion. Our special area of interest is the southeast quadrant of Ohio, but we help women all over Ohio by collaborating with other funds.

The cost of a first trimester abortion can be more than a poverty-level family lives on in a month. Today, women forgo food, risk eviction, and pawn their possessions as they attempt to raise money for an abortion. Some are forced to continue the pregnancy, abandon their education and stay trapped in poverty. Since 1992, Women Have Options has helped more than 1200 women pay for an abortion or afford contraception.

Join us in protecting women's lives and women's futures. Come to our Annual Fall Receptin, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at The Works Gallery, 54 South Second St., in Newark, Ohio. Our special guest is Michael Payton, Executive Director of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Good food, good music, amazing raffle and inspiration. Suggested contribution is $30. More information or a free pass needed?

Go to our website and send me an e-mail.