According to a recent Planned Parenthood poll, 36% of pro-choice women in key battleground state wrongly believe that John McCain is pro-choice. McCain stated recently, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned." (Jim Davenport, Associated Press, 2.18.2007)John McCain has long voting record against a woman's right to choose and didn't vote for the Fair Pay Act which is a bill that would restore a woman's (or men's) ability to go to court in cases of pay discrimination. Instead McCain said that women just need more education!!
McCan't relate also voted against a raise in the minimum wage which would greatly help working women, especially single moms.
John McCain is also against contraceptive education and advocation. He favors abstinence only education. Then there are these numbers: He voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03). He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate sex education (7/25/06).
He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96).
He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05).
He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05).
And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05).
TPJ: So please, ladies think twice before voting for John McCain. Barack Obama is fighting for the same issues that most of you are.
3 comments:
Hopefully PP and the Obama campaign make a huge issue over this in these key states. I think as the general election moves along and more people see McCain for what he is, Obama will reap the benefits.
T&A:
I do too. I think that they will increase the pressure and information campaign. I hope that they make it clear that Obama is much more for women's rights than McCain.
I hope that many of the upset ladies who supported Hillary think twice before voting for McCain.
I hope that they don't end up voting against the interests and causes that many of them (and us men too) care passionately about.
John McCain will sell those ladies out his first day in office. The only thing that he seems willing to do for women is promise that he'll have a lot of women in his administration.
So he's going to try and buy off women off with that empty gesture? It's an empty gesture because the women he puts in there should he get elected won't agree with much of anything Hillary and Obama support.
McCain is pro choice. Don't lie
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