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Breaking News: The threat to women just doubled


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The threat to women’s reproductive lives and health just doubled.

Just this morning, Mitt Romney announced his choice for his vice presidential running mate: Anti-choice extremist Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Anti-choice forces are thrilled with Ryan, and it’s no wonder why:

  • During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ryan cast 59 votes on abortion and other reproductive rights issues. He voted anti-choice each and every time.
  • Ryan repeatedly voted for and cosponsored the Federal Abortion Ban, a law that criminalizes some abortion services, endangers women’s health, and carries a two-year prison sentence for doctors.

Ryan is outspoken about his anti-choice beliefs:

“I’m as pro-life as a person gets. You’re not going to have a truce. Judges are going to come up. Issues come up, they’re unavoidable, and I’m never going to not vote pro-life.”1

We need your help to defeat the anti-choice Romney-Ryan ticket and all anti-choice politicians who are dangerous threats to women’s health.

Make no mistake about it: Ryan is 100% behind the War on Women agenda and, if elected on November 6, he’s ready to work with Mitt Romney the day after the inauguration to:

  • Defund Planned Parenthood clinics across the nation;
  • Eliminate the Title X family-planning program, which provides mammograms and cancer screenings to low-income individuals;
  • Deny women in the military — who defend our freedom overseas — the right to use their own, private funds for abortion care at military hospitals;
  • Pass legislation to effectively ban abortion coverage in state health-insurance exchanges; and
  • Allow hospitals to refuse to provide emergency abortion care, even when a woman’s life is in danger.

Please help us get the word out: Romney and Ryan are dangerous to women’s health.

With nothing to stand in the way of the extreme Romney-Ryan agenda, we could lose the protection of Roe v. Wade, women’s health and lives will be at risk — and anti-choice zealots could wipe out decades’ worth of reproductive rights we’ve fought so hard to win.

We can spread the word about these and other anti-choice candidates. But we’re running out of time. With less than 90 days to go, we need to knock on every door, make every call, and sound the warning bell to every pro-choice voter we can find. If we can get them to the polls, we can defeat anti-choice politicians running across the country and continue with all our important grassroots and advocacy work to ensure the right to privacy.

Please make the most generous gift you can to NARAL Pro-Choice America — right now — to beat the Romney-Ryan ticket, protect our pro-choice allies, and defend choice at all levels of government.

Thanks for all you do.

Nancy Keenan

Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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1The Weekly Standard, Paul Ryan: GOP Must Continue Fighting for the Right to Life by John McCormack, September 22, 2010.

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a message from .. NARAL Pro-Choice America


NARAL Pro-Choice America

Rush Limbaugh is at it again.

He came to Mitt Romney’s defense by calling NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood “death squads.”

Tell Romney a real leader would stand up to a bully like Limbaugh.

We’ve all heard about Rush Limbaugh’s rants attacking strong women. Thanks to pro-choice people like you, he faced an onslaught of criticism for his offensive language against Sandra Fluke.

Well, he is at it again.

Yesterday, he came to Mitt Romney’s defense by calling NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood “death squads.”

First, he claimed that the “Democrats [are] funded and underwritten by Planned Parenthood and NARAL,” and then said, “If they’re not death squads, I don’t know what is.”1

Limbaugh’s inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous and needs to be condemned. Join me in calling on Romney to stand up to Limbaugh’s remarks.

It’s alarming that a politician who is running for the highest office in the nation fails to address Limbaugh head on.

When Limbaugh went after Sandra Fluke, Mitt Romney refused to call for Limbaugh to apologize. Instead, Romney cowardly said, “it’s not the language I would have used.”2

Will Romney duck Limbaugh’s incendiary language a second time?

Tell Romney that a real leader would stand up to a bully like Limbaugh. Make sure he knows that when he refuses to denounce Limbaugh for his offensive language, he fails women.

We’re not going to let these outrageous attacks on women’s freedom and privacy go unanswered.

In solidarity,

Nancy Keenan

Nancy Keenan President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

1 – “Limbaugh On Planned Parenthood And NARAL Pro-Choice: ‘If They’re Not Death Squads, I Don’t Know What Is’,” Media Matters, August 8, 2012 2 – “Romney Fails the Leadership Test,” The Root, March 5, 2012

A political organization, NARAL Pro-Choice America is the nation’s leading advocate for privacy and a woman’s right to choose.
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They want to take away our health care


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HELP US REACH 2,000 NEW MEMBERS AND RECEIVE A WINDOW CLING!
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In case you thought the War on Women was letting up, think again.
Just hours after the Supreme Court delivered a tremendous victory for women’s health by upholding the Affordable Care Act last week, the anti-choice leadership in the House scheduled a vote to repeal it.  The health-care law makes it easier for women to get the health care they need, and attacking it is only one front in anti-choice politicians’ War on Women.
Also, in just the last few weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives lined up no fewer than five bills attacking choice.  And the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) organized nationwide rallies to oppose birth-control coverage.
We must fight back against this outrageous anti-woman agenda.  That is why we set a goal to gain 2,000 new members to fight back with us. We’re so close to our goal — and we need you to put us over the top.
Will you make a special contribution to NARAL Pro-Choice America right now to help us reach our critical goal of 2,000 new members?
Carmen, the scary truth is that we are facing anti-choice extremists who are gaining more and more momentum every day.  If we don’t fight back, anti-choice politicians and groups will continue to interfere in women’s health and lives.
Anti-choice groups like the USCCB and their extreme allies in Congress are out of touch with our values and priorities.  It is critical that we beat back their attempts to repeal the health-care law and take away a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body. That is why we need your immediate help to face these extremists and protect choice at all levels of government.
Will you help us reach our goal of 2,000 new members by making a contribution to NARAL Pro-Choice America today? Help support all the work we do to protect choice.
The stakes are simply too high for us to sit on the sidelines and let these anti-choice extremists continue to roll back women’s rights.  We need your help immediately.  And, if you donate today, you will receive a special NARAL Pro-Choice America window cling as a thank-you for your support.
Will you help us fight extremists and reach our membership goal by donating right now?
We will not stand by as anti-choice groups and politicians perpetuate their War on Women.  Thank you for all that you do to stand up for women’s freedom and privacy.
Sincerely,
Nancy Keenan
Nancy Keenan President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
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Should rape and incest survivors be forced to prove that they were assaulted to the IRS?


Should rape and incest survivors be forced to prove to the IRS that they were assaulted?

What kind of question is that?

But a bill proposed by anti-choice lawmakers in Congress could force many sexual assault survivors to do just that.1

The bill would impose tax penalties on small businesses and individuals who buy abortion coverage with their own money—with exceptions only for cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is in danger.2

The result? Survivors of rape and incest who seek abortion care could be forced to detail their assaults and provide proof to IRS investigators.3

Reliving a horrific sexual assault to the police and in court is awful enough. Forcing women to prove that they were assaulted to IRS investigators is simply inhumane.

Tell Congress to stand up against this terrible bill—and speak out against the Republican war on women. Sign the petition today

http://pol.moveon.org/noaudits/?id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=4

Despite campaigning on job creation, Republicans have focused their agenda this year on attacking the rights and well-being of women. From pushing several anti-choice bills to cutting billions from health care, food aid, child care, and education, their attacks constitute nothing less than a full-scale war on women.

But as we saw earlier this year, a huge outcry can have a big impact. When Republicans included a provision in the original version of this bill that redefined rape—which said that only “forcible” rape counted when it came to using federal dollars for abortion care—they faced a huge backlash, and eventually removed that term.4

Now, the new version of the bill is out—and as Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, put it, “This bill gets more outrageous and insulting by the day. Not only would a woman have to describe her sexual assault to the police, but she could then be forced to relive that horrifying experience with an agent from the IRS.”5

Republicans clearly have no boundaries when it comes to attacking women’s rights. But just like when they attempted to redefine rape, we can stop them—and their bill—if we all speak out.

Can you sign the petition today? Just click below—and share this email with your friends, family, and social networks today.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kat, Wes, Joan, Peter, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits,” Mother Jones, March 18, 2011

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207116&id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=5

2. “H.R. 3: A Dangerous and Misleading Bill that Threatens Women’s Health,'” National Women’s Law Center, March 2, 2011

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207136&id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=6

3. “GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits,” Mother Jones, March 18, 2011

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207116&id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=7

4. “Pro-Choice Advocates: GOP’s Revised Abortion Bill Remains ‘Extremely Harmful’ To Women,” The Huffington Post, March 3, 2011

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207117&id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=8

5. “GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits,” Mother Jones, March 18, 2011

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207116&id=26652-17809870-pwT7nvx&t=9

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Stand Up to the GOP’s War on Women


The anti-choice politicians running the U.S. House of Representatives are out of control – they’ve declared a War on Women.

They are working to end insurance coverage for abortion and make it as difficult as possible for any woman to access this care – even if it is necessary to save her life.

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=THuCzRcms2AirKyO44fWAA..

We’re fighting against a War on Women, and need your help to stop the attacks.

H.R.3 is one of two bills where anti-choice politicians tried to redefine rape. Thanks to massive public outcry, our opponents backed down on that front. But even without a rape-related provision, these two bills could change women’s access to abortion forever.

**H.R.3 would effectively block private-insurance plans from covering abortion care in the new health-care system and impose tax penalties on small-business owners and some other individuals who purchase private-insurance plans that cover abortion.

**H.R.358 would allow hospitals to refuse to provide abortion care, even when necessary to save a woman’s life.

Tell your representative that this anti-choice agenda goes way too far. http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=I4DeHZznx42daIUejRXEFA..

Congress introduces a lot of bills that, frankly, don’t go anywhere. But both of these bills are moving quickly and have been passed by key committees. H.R.3 just gained 221 cosponsors, which is enough to push the bill straight to a vote in the full House.

We cannot let these anti-choice attacks go unanswered. Please send an email to your member of Congress and help us oppose H.R.3 and H.R.358.

http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=FI3DDRELbRpLrZv-LgQ3ug..

Your voice makes a difference. Please, take action now.

My best,

Nancy Keenan

President, NARAL Pro-Choice America