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Seth Meyers: Bernie Sanders Now in the 'Betty White Zone' of Coolness — Video (LMAO)
Late Night‘s Seth Meyers has a theory about Bernie Sanders‘ recent polling surge, and it has little to do with his resemblance to Waldorf from The Muppets.
If Sanders happens to remain hot in Cleveland (or more importantly in Iowa and New Hampshire), he’s probably entered the “Betty White Zone” of coolness, which Meyers on Tuesday explained is the key behind the democratic hopeful’s success with millennials.
Email from Bernie:Subbject: Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court guaranteed a woman's right to choose in the Roe v. Wade decision 43 years ago today. This was a tremendous step to protect women's health and to affirm their control of their own bodies.
Unfortunately, since the Roe v. Wade decision, extreme right-wing politicians in states have made it more and more difficult for women to actually access abortion care, aided in many cases by the federal Hyde Amendment and other anti-abortion policies. Nearly a quarter of these restrictions have come in the last five years. This is unacceptable.
The extreme right-wing works tirelessly to make it more difficult for women to access reproductive health care. Republicans in office work to shut down clinics while extremists terrorize health care providers and their patients. Making women travel hundreds of miles, wait weeks for an appointment and face harassment at the clinic door is a national disgrace.
So today, on the anniversary of this important Supreme Court decision, we must affirm not only the right to have an abortion, but we must protect the right to access a doctor or clinic who can perform that procedure.
Add your name to mine if you agree we must expand access to reproductive health care and protect Roe v. Wade.
We are not going back to the days when women had to risk their lives to end an unwanted pregnancy. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for a woman and her doctor to make, not the government.
We are not going to allow the extreme right-wing to defund Planned Parenthood, we are going to expand it. Planned Parenthood provides vital healthcare services for millions of people, who rely on its clinics every year for affordable, quality health care services including cancer prevention, STI and HIV testing and general primary health care services. The current attempt to malign Planned Parenthood is part of a long-term smear campaign by people who want to deny women in this country the right to control their own bodies.
We are not going back to the days when women did not have full access to birth control. Incredibly, almost all of the Republicans in Congress are in favor of giving any employer who provides health insurance, or any insurance company, the ability to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a “moral” objection to it. That is unacceptable.
Under my administration, we will protect and expand the fundamental rights of women to control their own bodies. I promise to only nominate Supreme Court Justices who support Roe v. Wade. Our Medicare-for-all plan would cover reproductive health care, including abortion, because all health care is a right, not a privilege. And I would work to repeal the federal Hyde Amendment, which currently restricts the federal government from spending any money on abortion care. That is wrong, and it will be abolished when I am president.
Add your name to mine if you agree we must expand access to reproductive health care and protect Roe v. Wade.
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/roe-v-wade?source=em160122full
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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(not the billionaires)
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