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Virginia’s “ultrasound bill” a repost from 2012


Last week, I told you Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was getting ready to sign the “ultrasound bill,” an atrocious proposal that would force all women considering abortions to get ultrasounds and require their doctors to ask if they’d like a picture.

Well, he signed it.

We didn’t stop the bill this time, but we did make sure the entire country knew exactly what was going down in Virginia.

There are still 450 other bills on birth control and abortion in state legislatures across the country. With a far-right faction of the GOP holding a majority in many of them, it’s unclear how many we can stop. But let me just say this: We need to be prepared to win in November.

As long as women’s rights are being attacked, we’re going to keep fighting back — in Congress and in the states.

Say that you’re ready to stand with Democrats as we stand up for women. Add your name today.

We’re taking on this fight both nationally and in the states. In Virginia, that meant helping to fund the state party’s rapid response communications team — they pushed back on the ultrasound legislation, supported the Democrats who opposed it, and publicized peaceful protests of it at the capitol. That work helped put this bill on the national radar.

Right now, New Hampshire, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, and many other states are considering similar legislation.

The Texas legislature is in the midst of a bitter fight to eliminate state support for a wide range of women’s health services. They’ve already eliminated two-thirds of their funding for women’s health, closing more than half of the state’s Planned Parenthood and other clinics. And now they’re voting to reject aid for the Medicaid Women’s Health Program. They claim they’re doing this to fight abortion, but what they’re actually doing is denying hundreds of thousands of women access to basic health care.

Clearly, this fight is about more than abortion and birth control.

I won’t stop speaking out across the country about a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions, and Democrats in the states won’t stop pushing back against these bills.

I hope you won’t stop fighting either.

Support the fight state by state and nationwide. Stand with the Democrats today:

http://my.democrats.org/Stand-for-Women

Thanks,

Debbie

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Chair
Democratic National Committee

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a message from Barack Obama … FEC deadline barackobama.org


ObamaSpeaksthetruthTonight we’ve got a major fundraising deadline, so let me tell you why it’s more important than ever that we do everything we can to work together and elect Democrats next year:

  1. Our economy is growing every day, but Republicans in Congress still refuse to make investments in the things that are important: Education, infrastructure, and job training programs. Democrats are ready to focus on the issues that matter, but we need your help to make sure we get those folks in office.
  2. More than 17 million Americans in all corners of the country have gained health care coverage because of the Affordable Care Act — and yet Republicans in Congress have voted more than 50 times to repeal a law that’s clearly working. The Democrats we elect next year with your help will put a rest to endless votes against policies that are helping hardworking, middle-class folks.
  3. We want to leave a planet for our kids and grandkids that’s healthy and secure. But Republicans continue to deny the science of climate change and won’t work to combat it.
  4. Democrats will.

Simply put, our country is great because of all the work folks like you do every single day to keep moving us forward. You deserve lawmakers who’ll work just as hard for you, so pitch in $3 or whatever you can before tonight’s fundraising deadline at midnight so we can elect Democrats who’ll do just that.

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