We Won’t Go Back

Feb 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Video, Volunteer Events

From attempting to redefine rape to cutting access to vital services for women, Republicans have made an anti-choice, anti-woman agenda front and center this year. See the video below or click here.

Women’s rights leaders have warned that the Republican effort would be a radical, far-reaching rollback of women’s rights. Rep. Carolyn Maloney called it “the deepest attack on a woman’s right to choose in my lifetime.” Expert Jessica Arons said it would “accomplish the unstated end of making abortion as difficult to obtain as possible without actually criminalizing it.”

More on Huffington Post: Rape, the Republican Party and Rage …, and Republicans Renew War on Women

One bill would effectively prevent women from purchasing insurance that includes abortion coverage in the new insurance exchanges even if they’re using their own money. Experts warn this type of restriction could lead to insurance companies dropping abortion coverage entirely. The same bill would also levy a tax on small businesses and individuals who purchase insurance coverage that includes abortion.
 
Another bill would, incredibly, allow hospitals to turn away a woman seeking an abortion, even if she’ll die without it—a major change from current law.
 
Republicans have a real chance of passing these bills—unless we sound the alarm right away.

 

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