American Citizens, Please Protect Our Right to Birth Control

Protect an American woman’s right to birth control.

http://www.facebook.com/naralprochoiceamerica?sk=app_190733170965153

We need very important action from American men and women. NARAL hopes to deliver 30,000 signatures to the NIH by Friday (tomorrow) June 17th that are critical for two reasons. One is stated and the other I will explain to you in no nonsense language. Even I didn’t know about this provision of the new health care law, and it probably explains a big part of why Republicans are gunning for the new law. The petition reads:

I Support No-Cost Birth Control

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Catholic University Professors Critique House Speaker John Boehner's Record

HopeTracker| Republican House Speaker John Boehner is scheduled to give the commencement address on Saturday at the Catholic University of America in Washington. Like President Obama, who was criticized recently by Catholic magazine Conscience for not upholding the rights of American women, Speaker Boehner is being criticized by prominent Catholics for his actions in Washington.

More than 75 professors at Catholic University and other Catholic colleges have written a pointed letter to Boehner about his policies that undermine Medicare, Medicaid and the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program.

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War on Women | Is Obama Against Women, Too? | 'Conscience' Says Yes

Topical Articles in America’s War on Women

 Magazine Raises Questions about President Obama’s Prochoice Record Catholics for Choice

In an unprecedented move, Conscience magazine asked leading authors to provide a comprehensive analysis of President Barack Obama’s prochoice record. Many in the progressive reproductive rights and women’s rights field have whispered it, some have murmured it, but Conscience has finally broken the silence about the administration’s abysmal failure to take action on choice issues.

David Nolan, the editor of Conscience, said, “In recent months, many have raised questions about the president’s bona fides. Some have been absurd, others merely ridiculous. We see it as a vital part of our job to hold politicians accountable for the promises they make. So we asked our authors—leading experts in the field—to consider what the president has done and what he has failed to do. We asked them to review the evidence and ask ‘Have you kept your promises, President Obama?’”

In the lead article, “Is Obama Prochoice?” Jodi Jacobson reflects on what appears to be a about-face between Candidate Obama and President Obama.

“As a candidate, Obama said all the right things. As a president, his actions suggest that then-presidential contender and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was right—he will not fight for us.… The president has presided over the greatest erosion to women’s reproductive health and rights in the past 30 years, and a continuing degradation of our rights at the state level. Yet still he remains silent. Is Obama prochoice? Not by my definition.”

GOP Lawmakers Push for Stricter Abortion Laws NPR

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Can SlutWalks Stop the Republican War on Women?

RedTracker| SlutWalks are gaining momentum, with 2000 people signed up for Boston today. We will be marching on June 18. SlutWalks began in Toronto, after police officer Constable Michael Sanguinetti made his now infamous remarks to a group of students in Toronto:

“You know, I think we’re beating around the bush here,” he reportedly told them. “I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this - however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised”.

Anne took up the topic of SlutWalks in Sensually Yours.

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