Moveon.org:
This is it: the final sprint to Election Day. If you care about women's rights, then you've got to care about this midterm election. And we can win this fight at the ballot box, if women, and the men who stand with us, show up. When women vote, women win!
Now, watch, share, and rock on with this music video by Joan Jett to #GetOutTheVote for #WomensRights
In 2013, there were more laws passed to limit women’s reproductive rights than in the entire previous DECADE.
Many of us may have access to good health care, but our experience being a woman – and our rights – shouldn’t depend on our zip code. Our sisters in Texas, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Ohio, Arkansas, and so many other states don’t have what we have. The most regressive, anti-woman, anti-voting, anti-equality laws are being passed on the state level. This is why the MIDTERMS are so important.
The midterm elections on Tuesday, November 4th, are just as important as the Presidential elections. Need a reason to go vote? Check out these terrifying facts:
• 29 States in America allow a rapist to sue a women for custody and/or visitation of the child birthed from that rape.
• 87% of all US Counties have no abortion provider.
• 35%of American women will have an abortion by the age o f45.
• In 35% states, Medicaid recipients do not have abortion coverage.
• In 13 states a pharmacist can legally refuse to disperse birth control, even if you have a prescription.
• 26 states have waiting periods for abortion; only 11 have waiting periods for guns.
• in 17 State the government forces women to go to counseling before she can have an abortion.
• In 32 State terminally ill women are forced to carry a pregnancy to term, regardless of her wishes or her living will.
• More than 50 abortion clinics were shut down by unnecessary laws from 2010-2013. Not including the dozens that were shut in Texas in the last month.
(For a state by state list of anti-women/anti-equality laws go to the nifty state-by-state map at ladypartsjustice.com)
Power To The Peaceful and The Proactive!
2 comments:
what a joke, women have more rights than men and no one is attacking women's rights. I don't know a single intelligent woman falling for this nonsense.
I like the line about "our rights shouldn't depend on our zip codes". Why is impossible to get a carry permit in NJ my rights shouldn't depend on my zip code. Also good is bringing up rape since sex with an underage person is rape planned parenthood has helped rapist cover up their crime http://www.childpredators.com/cases/
I dont know all state waiting periods for guns. My last pistol permit took 4 months. I AM PROLIFE BUT WOULDN'T MAKE ABORTION AS HARD TO GET AS A LEGAL PISTOL IN NJ!!
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