Please take 30 seconds to sign PetitionToCureSMA.com to help END Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the #1 genetic killer of young children!

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prevent local health centres and hospitals from using 08 numbers such as 0844, 0845 or 0870.

We, the undersigned, wish to show our support for nurse Margaret Haywood who raised issues of concern around poor patient care.

A new ActionAid report describes the shocking rise of "corrective" rape in South Africa - in which South African lesbians are being raped in an effort to "cure" them of their sexual orientation. Support groups in Cape Town say they see 10 new cases of "corrective" rape every week. And it's even more widespread around the rest of the country.

Banning abortion in the private health-insurance market has become the anti-choice movement's number one goal in health-care reform, and they are using lies and distortions to achieve it:

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, told Congressional staffers that "extremists would retaliate with violence" if Congress doesn't ban abortion in the new health-care system.

Did you know that cattle are routinely fed the waste from the floor of commercial chicken houses? That's feces, feathers, spilled feed, straw, dirt and anything else on the floor under the cramped birds.

Help ensure the rights of women around the world by urging the U.S. Senate to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women.

A Petition to Repeal Fire Safe Cigarette Law

Citizens Against Fire Safe Cigarettes (CAFSC)

Author: David Jaromnak

Date: 11/15/08

Resistance to antibiotics is a public health crisis on the rise. These crucial drugs should only be used when necessary but 70 percent of antibiotics used in the United States are given to healthy chickens, pigs and cattle to increase weight gain or to prevent illnesses.