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Indygram

(2,113 posts)
Wed May 22, 2019, 12:26 AM May 2019

Beto O'Rourke releases plan to protect and expand women's reproductive rights

Good stuff! More at the link

Beto O’Rourke laid out a plan to mobilize every branch of government to protect Roe v. Wade and defend the right of American women to make decisions about their own bodies.

There is a nationwide assault on women’s reproductive freedom. State legislatures — many dominated by male politicians — are undertaking a concerted effort to interfere with a woman’s constitutionally-protected right to make her own health care decisions and limit women’s access to quality health care, including contraception and abortion. These increasingly radical and dangerous plans cannot be tolerated and, as president, Beto would leverage all three branches of the federal government to defend a woman’s right to choose, reverse and prevent laws and actions restricting women’s reproductive freedom, and increase funding for contraceptive care.

EXECUTIVE

Put the full force of the Presidency behind defending women’s reproductive rights and expanding women’s access to health care

- Appoint an Attorney General who would protect a woman’s constitutional right under Roe v. Wade to access the health care she needs and deserves in any litigation on this issue, including opposing any unconstitutional TRAP laws and attempts to hide behind religious liberty to limit a woman’s health care options.

- Reverse the Trump Administration’s “gag rule” banning doctors from telling women how they can safely and legally access abortion.

- Put forth a budget that includes increased Title X funding for women’s health and includes no restrictions on the use of federal health care funds for abortions — as is the case right now under the Hyde Amendment. Such restrictions disproportionately affect women of color and women in underserved communities from accessing abortion.

- Remove scientifically unsound FDA labeling regulations that impose barriers to the use of medication-based abortions.


https://betoorourke.com/choice/

He also added "America's Town Hall" where people can submit questions for him to answer.

https://act.betoorourke.com/signup/town-hall-america/

More detailed information on capital for small businesses too:
https://betoorourke.com/small-business/
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Indygram

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5. He sure did!
Wed May 22, 2019, 10:21 AM
May 2019

I'm glad more people got to see what his supporters have been seeing all along.

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4. Kick for the daytime peeps
Wed May 22, 2019, 07:39 AM
May 2019

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