The real world reminder why SC decision bigoted
I found this on another site. It illustrates what women deal with in the real world. If you aren't pissed this is the reminder you need & be sure to share it.
There is a war on women in this nation. It’s time to fight back. Vote out Republicans before you lose the right to vote.
• A woman is raped every two minutes in the United States, but the Supreme Court just helped corporations block access to emergency contraception for women if their employers choose to not to allow their health coverage to pay for it. There’s no guarantee that if you are working a minimum wage job you are going to have money in the bank for a Plan B the day after you are raped. That is what our health coverage is for, to provide for our health emergencies.
• Thirty-one states allow for child custody rights for rapists.
• The attacks on women’s reproductive rights that occurred at the state level in 2014 are too numerous to list, but you might remember North Carolina’s “motorcycle safety” bill which turned into an omnibus abortion bill, Texas’ attack on clinics which provide abortions, and Wisconsin’s move to force women to have transvaginal ultrasounds all made the headlines last year.
• A comprehensive report by the Guttmacher Institute in 2011 revealed that more than 1,100 pieces of legislation were introduced which dealt with reproductive "health" and 68% of those restricted access to abortion services.
• Along with restricting access to abortion, access to cancer screening and other health related services were denied women by the closing of 36 Planned Parenthood Clinics (this does not include other clinics by other organizations) from 2010 - 2011. Another 24 closed in 2013 by the month of August. Planned Parenthood provided over one million breast exams and pap tests in 2012, providing early warning to over 85,000 women yet continues to be attacked as a "abortion provider", ignoring the positive work the organization accomplishes, which saves lives.
• States like Nebraska can force you to give birth to children which cannot live outside the womb.
• In Iowa if you are pregnant you can be arrested if you have an accident which causes the death of your fetus, a woman was arrested for falling down the stairs.
• Republicans blocked equal pay initiatives in Congress and in states like Texas in 2014.
• Republicans are pushing “voter I.D.” laws which specifically put women at high-risk of being turned away at the polls as women are more likely to change their names due to marriage and divorce.
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