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Please Sign the Petition for the Access Act

June 18th, 2008 | Posted by CTL
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Senator Brownback (R-KS) and Congresswoman Watson (D-CA) have introduced the Access Act - the Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act.

The Access Act is gaining support from both sides of the aisle in congress and the senate. Several members of the Congressional BlackCaucus have just signed on. Help from the prostate cancer/Provenge community in adding more co-sponsors is NEEDED. Please write your representatives and senators to request their support of the Access Act.

Melody has created a prostate cancer advocates’ petition (link below) that will also be sent to The Hill. It would be great to get thousands of signatures. Please sign and pass along to everyone you know.

http://www.petitiononline.com/access2/petition.html

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca33_watson/20080521.html

http://brownback.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=298216

Please Sign the Provenge Petition Too!

http://www.petitiononline.com/provenge/petition.html

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These people will keeping coming back to Rockville and they hope others will join them until the courts, the FDA, Congress or somebody does something about this travesty.