One theme of our "The Choice Is Yours" Roe V Wade event last weekend was lobbying. Politicians need to hear from pro-choice women. You can lobby by yourself or with a friend. Better yet, you can go with a large group and fan out! Women have many opportunities in the next few months to lobby with different groups, according to the issues that they feel are most important. You can do more than one of these!

- Feb 28, 2005 – Monday night - Raleigh NOW will join other NC NOW chapters at the legislature when we pass out our Pro-Choice Signature Ad to all the NC legislators. NOW passes these out every year, and we take this opportunity to talk to our representatives while we are there.

- March 16, 2005 – Wednesday – Adolescent Health Advocacy Day. Youth-serving professionals, young people, and advocates from around the state will meet in Raleigh to discuss adolescent health issues, including sex ed.
 Promotion of healthy weight
 Prevention of tobacco use
 Ensuring access to school-based/school-linked health centers
 Providing age-appropriate, medically accurate sexuality education

- March 30, 2005 – Wednesday - NCWU encourages women and men to participate in lobbying on Women’s Advocacy Day. Women are disproportionately affected by many large issues that we went over in the Women’s Agenda Assembly meeting last November. These are Access to Health Care, Aging, Employment Discrimination, Economic Self Sufficiency and Domestic Violence. To see more about these issues, go to www.ncwu.org and read the summaries in the Draft Women’s Agenda.

Lobbying can be fun, stimulating, and make you a participant in this business called democracy!

The Choice is Yours.