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Mitt Romney may be intent on “getting rid” of Planned Parenthood should he be elected president, but Planned Parenthood supporters don’t plan on going quietly.
Supporters from across the country are following Mitt Romney on the road and letting him know that his opposition to birth control is harmful and out of touch with their needs. These women’s health activists are being joined by Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s giant pill pack “Pillamina,” who represents the 34 percent of women voters in America who report struggling with the cost of birth control and the vast majority of Americans who support providing birth control at low or no cost.
“Mitt Romney has clearly said that not only was Griswold v. Connecticut not decided correctly, but that he opposes President Obama’s birth control benefit, which will lower costs for millions of American women,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “The bottom line is that access to birth control is an economic issue for women. Period. That’s something that President Obama clearly understands, and that Mitt Romney simply doesn’t. It’s amazing that nearly 50 years after Griswold, women still have to fight for access to birth control.”
Pillamina’s road trip has already included appearances along Mitt Romney’s bus tour in Stratham, NH, and Newark, OH with more planned including a stop in Michigan.
“For someone who says he’s a smart businessman, it’s surprising that Mitt Romney doesn’t see the costs to the American economy — and American households — of cutting access to family planning,” said Richards. “Unintended pregnancies are already costing U.S. taxpayers $11 billion a year. The smartest thing we can do for women’s health and fiscal responsibility is actually to invest in family planning, as President Obama has done.”
Romney would rescind President Obama’s policy requiring health insurance plans to include contraception without co-pays and has also said that Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case striking down a ban on contraception, was not decided correctly. Additionally, Romney has pledged to “get rid” of Planned Parenthood, denying women access to birth control and cancer screenings; end the national family planning program, which provides preventive care to nearly five million women; and cut off access to birth control for women who need it the most. Romney also wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and end access to safe and legal abortion.
Doctors and public health experts agree that birth control is a basic and essential component of women’s preventive health care and that increased access to birth control prevents unintended pregnancies and improves health outcomes for women and their families. Increased access to birth control is also directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality, as well as other health benefits and positive health outcomes.
It also means women have the ability to control, to a large extent, their financial independence. So it’s no wonder the conservative right is fighting so hard to take that away.
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+ add your ownGriswold vs Connecticut and Roe vs Wade were of course completely wrongly made decisions but Citizens United vs FEC were absolutely correct. Right, rights? Such a double standard those rights have all the time their little toes are stepped on. Woe is you. Stick to help the country grow stronger financially instead of taking away every civil right people have died for, righties!!!
Actually..use something other than the pill pack...those birth control pills are dangerous read the latest books and literature rather than the info in the pill pack...and.....know your family history...cancer families need to find better ways.
I agree with Kristen and also wonder how Mr Romney would plan to deal with all those extra births and the women who if they have trouble affording the pill will have even a harder time affording a child
Do the Republicans realize that if they block access to birth control for low-income and minority females, that the minority (that includes Latino and Black, the two groups the GOP can't seem to kill off/jail/deport fast enough to suit them) birth rate will skyrocket? What will they do once they're totally and completely, forever and ever amen OUTNUMBERED!?
Great.
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birth control is essential. the world's population is brimming over.. this is common sense ... i think Planned Parenthood has a great sense of humor as well as strength of vision and purpose to dream up following Romney around... love it!
Good!!!
I'd also like to see promoters of Family Awareness Method following Romney to teach women about their bodies and cycles so women can be aware, in control, and empowered! :)
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