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Save the Date — MCCC 20th Anniversary

Sunday, October 3, 2010 McHENRY COUNTY CITIZENS FOR CHOICE ANNOUNCES A SPECIAL EVENT MCCC 20th ANNIVERSARY BASH McHenry Country Club  – 720 John St., McHenry  – 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Watch for Exciting Details Coming Soon! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]

July 22, 2010   Posted in: Information, Local News  Comments Closed

Your Attention Please!

The height of summer vacation time might seem an unlikely time to strategize and review the number and scope of challenges that con-front the pro-choice community. But our opponents never rest (especially not on Sundays) If pro-choice women are to ever achieve our goal we need to follow the example of our forebears by taking [...]

July 17, 2010   Posted in: Calls to Action, Information, Local News, National News  Comments Closed

Adopt-a-Highway Project

M-triple-C participates in the McHenry County Adopt-a-Highway Project. We have adopted one mile of Walkup Road in Crystal Lake – between Hillside and Pleasant Hill Road. On Saturday, April 17, a sturdy group of volunteers participated in our Spring Clean-Up. We worked for two hours and enjoyed the reward of a job well done. Our [...]

April 24, 2010   Posted in: Calls to Action, Information, Local News  Comments Closed

Health Care Reform and Reproductive Health

Recent health care reform is a mixed bag for pro-choice supporters. In the wake of reform, insurance companies may be more inclined to opt out of coverage for abortion services. Ineffective abstinence-only sex education programs remain in place. However, Medicaid recipients have expanded availability to a comprehensive package of reproductive health services. And significant increases [...]

April 20, 2010   Posted in: Information  Comments Closed

Religion and Women’s Equality

M-triple-C acknowledges the struggle by mainstream Protestants and progressive Roman Catholics to secure an equal place for women within organized religion. M-triple-C spearheaded a billboard campaign in McHenry County that gave voice to the pro-woman views of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC). Learn more about the Religious Coalition at their website: http://www.rcrc.org/ We [...]

April 18, 2010   Posted in: Information, World News  Comments Closed

CDC Releases Annual “Abortion Surveillance” Report

Annie Newman, Managing Editor of RHRealityCheck.org, checks in with some hard numbers and hard facts on the CDC report. The CDC report not only covers how many abortions are performed in the U.S.A., but also information on when in the gestational period abortion is accessed and information on who gets these abortions, broken down by [...]

November 26, 2009   Posted in: Information  Comments Closed

Health Care and Abortion: Democratic Party Lines

The health care overhaul which passed the House on Sunday should have been cause for celebration. Unfortunately, it included the Stupak amendment, which bans any government funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother’s life is threatened. The Stupak amendment passed on Saturday by a vote of 240-194. Sixty-four Democrats [...]

November 9, 2009   Posted in: Information  Comments Closed

Misinformation about HB 2354

So much deliberate misinformation has been spread about HB 2354, we must respond! We not only need to keep our members informed of the truth about HB 2354, but also letters to the editor to refute these misstatements and get the word out so that other concerned citizens can recognize truth from fiction. We have [...]

April 5, 2009   Posted in: HB 2354  Comments Closed