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Mitt Romney Makes Another Choice Against Women: Picks Paul Ryan for VP

Mitt Romney Makes Another Choice Against Women: Picks Paul Ryan for VP

| Jacqueline M.

The news is in: Mitt Romney just named Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, once again making a choice against women’s health. We’re not surprised that Romney picked a running mate who is just as bad as he is on issues affecting women’s health and rights, but we can tell you one thing: Romney-Ryan is not our ticket. No way. No how. Not ever.

 

Here are the top five things you need to know about Paul Ryan:

  1. Ryan voted to end funding for Planned Parenthood, which could jeopardize access to cancer screenings, birth control, and other preventive care that nearly three million Americans rely on each year.

  2. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending safe and legal abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is at risk.

  3. He co-sponsored an extreme and dangerous “personhood” bill which could ban some forms of birth control and fertility treatments.

  4. The Ryan budget plan, his signature piece of legislation, would dismantle Medicaid, jeopardizing basic health care for millions of women and families. For many, this could mean the difference between getting cancer screenings and birth control or going without.

  5. Repeatedly, he has tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would restrict women’s access to birth control and preventive health care services, and allow insurance companies to discriminate against women and charge more for coverage than men.

Just like Romney, Ryan would turn back the clock on women’s health and women’s rights. Take a stand and tell Rep. Ryan: No way. No how. Not Ever. Women deserve better!

 

Tags: Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, VP, Planned Parenthood, Birth Control

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Comments (19)

08.13.12 @ 6:38PM | honeybucket

Yes women need to vote correctly. Also, there are so many voters that aren't registered especially in Texas. I read that the Latino voters aren't voting as they should and can. Someone in Texas needs to stir up the women to puch their families to vote. We can't lost our rights.!!!

08.13.12 @ 12:40PM | Nicolle

I'm glad my mother chose not to abort me. I am a person and My life matters. I'm glad that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have chosen to fight for the lives of our children. It's time we save the lives of our children.

08.13.12 @ 10:00AM | Sashya

Helen Keller wrote the following in 1911: "Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee . . ."

Emma Goldman wrote this about women in 1913: "Her development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer . . . Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free . . ."

08.12.12 @ 11:13PM | Stephanie Boot

WE MUST WIN THIS FIGHT!!!.......GET OUT AND VOTE!!!! GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO CARES ABOUT THIS TO VOTE!!! LET'S MOVE FOREWARD NOT BACKWARD!!!!!

VOTE!!!!!!!!

08.12.12 @ 7:04PM | Darlene

Let's see...HOW many times must we remind certain political components that women count as equal citizens and NO, ....we ...won't....back down....?!!!!!

08.12.12 @ 5:28PM | Susan K

You're grossly misinterpretating. Access to cancer screenings will NOT be jeopardised. Romney will NOT touch Roe vs Wade. What's wrong with banning some forms of birth control and fertility treatments as long as other alternatives exist. You are NOT mentioning which forms will be banned...

American women's rights will not change one iota from what they are now.

Worse, you are not taking into account the financial burden that Obamacare will have on all Americans. I know. I'm Canadian. I'm 60 years old, I have no family doctor since twenty years, we have to wait at least one year to get one and when we do, they leave within one year of practice. Our medical system is deeply flawed and is costing us a fortune since many new immigrants and their extended families have health problems, more and more seniors also, etc.

Shameful to read such one-sided truths and fallacies.

08.12.12 @ 5:18PM | Wendy

Planned Parenthood is my only way I can receive services for checkups and birth control. Mitt is crazy if he thinks he is going to jeopardize women and mens rights to use services at Planned Parenthood.

08.12.12 @ 4:44PM | Chantelle Bowen

Why is women's health a political football again? This is the 21st century. Do Republican men want us to be barefoot and pregnant and completely subservient like the poor women in Afghanistan and the young girls that are killed or maimed just because they want to learn to read and write. This is the United States of America...I have no works........

08.12.12 @ 4:29PM | Christi Ana

For God's sake, why do we have to keep pounding these issues through the "War on Women" ?The problems with dismantling Medicaid, Affordable Health Care, and Planned Parenthood are far bigger than women's reproductive rights. Yeah, it would suck if women couldn't get birth control or abortions, but it would suck even more if people, regardless of sex, couldn't afford or get health care for ANYTHING. Each organization that they're threatening to dismantle helps pay for people who cannot afford basic health care and/or medical needs.
Planned Parenthood gives treatment, such as strep tests, to people (children included) who are suffering from sore throats. What does a strep test have to do with women's reproductive rights?
Medicaid pays for hearing aids and equipment for students who cannot afford to buy it, and need it to function properly in school. I'm sorry, where is the correlation between hearing aids and reproduction?
Affordable Health Care covers pre-existing conditions, no matter how severe. How many pre-existing conditions relate directly to reproduction and women? Not enough to warrant the title "War on Women."
The majority of the titles here are more a war on the ill, rather than women. Toss in Roe v. Wade and "personhood", and of course, you'll get women acting enraged as though they are the only ones being violated by these outrages. I am a woman, and I am more outraged over the idea that I may lose coverage for my chronic illness than the pill. Loss of birth control would not affect me nearly 1/100th as much as loss of care, period.

08.12.12 @ 4:27PM | Dr. Rebecca Flores

Far better, from the Romney-Ryan perspective, to promote the conservative ideal of the "natural" state of women; that is, the nurturers, the caregivers, the mothers. They realize only too well that once women can choose freedom from the manifest burden and limitations brought on by motherhood (as indeed THEY can choose, as men) women will be competitors for political and ideological power ... on equal ground! And that terrifies them.

08.12.12 @ 4:06PM | Vicki

For the life of me I do not understand how any woman would vote for these two. We are going back in time. Women's Health Care is between her and her doctor, no one else. What right do they have to tell some one else what to do. Why women vote against themselves I do not get it!

08.12.12 @ 4:06PM | Maria

All the more reason to get out and vote, ladies!

08.12.12 @ 3:53PM | Pamela Betts

We will not take several steps backward.

08.12.12 @ 3:49PM | Amber

This is so embarrassing. Someday I'll be telling my grandkids about these Pres/VP candidates who were so openly against large groups of people (women, gays, the middle-class), and yet still had a chance at the election. If you're not a wealthy, heterosexual man, these guys are against you!

08.12.12 @ 2:15PM | Joey Tranchina

“There comes a time...” Mario Salvio

08.12.12 @ 5:08AM | andrew deskins

I'd hate to be a woman in Paul ryan's family.

08.11.12 @ 11:11PM | Amber Leigh Wissler

To see Ryan become our VP would destroy everything women fought for a hundred years ago. It seems Romney and Ryan want to chain women back to the stove and make us breeding machines. But if we get cancer, forget about fixing that broken part, just throw it all away. If your man isn't good enough to provide insurance for you and your children, he should be taxed to death because he isn't good enough. If they win, women may as well turn in every single right we've fought for.

08.11.12 @ 7:49PM | Joshua

I highly disagree with the discrimination against women, its disrespectful and is turning back the clock on women. Do away with your sexist ideals and give women the resources they need.

08.11.12 @ 6:40PM | Bella

Oh my gosh, I have no words. Just horrific

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