The bill proposes seven preventive measures: increasing funding for Title X, which provides services to women; expanding Medicaid family planning services; requiring private health plans to cover prescription contraceptives; providing $10 million for education about emergency contraception; requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception on request to victims of rape; spending $100 million to support state sex-education programs that include information about both abstinence and contraception; and providing $20 million in annual funding of teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Ivory noted that, "since 1973, choice has been affirmed and re-affirmed by the General Assembly." Responding to criticism of the Washington Office for its support of abortion rights, she said: "We are simply implementing the policies of the General Assembly. When the Washington Office is attacked, they are really attacking you. You approve these policies."

She urged the predominantly female group to support the Freedom of Choice Act, which would make a woman's right to decide whether to have an abortion the law of the land. She said there are about 50 bills on abortion before Congress, and "most would deny the right to choose."