By: Sarah Jones
July 11th, 2012
This will come as no surprise to those
who have followed the Republican War on Women, but for a campaign
struggling to keep up with the endless war chests of corporate
Republican PACs who appear to be violating the spirit and intent of the
“do not coordinate” rules with the Romney campaign, it’s good to hear
that the National Organization for Women’s PAC (NOW) is officially
endorsing President Obama for re-election.
NOW/PAC Chair Terry
O’Neill’s statement highlights the clear contrast on women’s rights
between Obama and Romney this November, noting that in President Obama
women have someone who listens and responds, and in Romney we have a man
who not only is unresponsive but wants to turn the clock back to the
1950′s “if not the 19th century.”
Read her statement below:
NOW PAC is proud to stand behind a president who unquestionably represents the path forward to achieve equality for women. Throughout the past four years President Obama has listened to our concerns and repeatedly stood up for women’s rights against a right-wing juggernaut bent on undermining our access to reproductive health care, our economic security and even our safety from intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
The extremists’ War on Women is all too real, and in order to win this struggle we must have strong allies in the White House who will work with us to implement policies that empower the women of this country to live healthy, safe and productive lives. President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden have shown time and again that they are our allies.
President Obama’s record on women’s issues speaks for itself:
On health care: The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover preventive care without co-pays, including contraception, mammograms, screening for cervical cancer, diabetes and heart disease, and many other prevention measures. The ACA also prohibits sex-based discrimination in insurance premium pricing, stops insurers from refusing coverage because of a pre-existing condition, expands Medicaid coverage to millions of low-income people (disproportionately women, particularly women of color), and will subsidize health premiums for millions more low- and middle-income earners — again, disproportionately women — who don’t get health coverage through their jobs and wouldn’t be able to afford it otherwise. And the president stood up to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when they demanded restrictions on birth control, ensuring access to contraception coverage for the millions of women insured through religiously affiliated schools, hospitals and nonprofits throughout the country.Continue reading at: http://www.politicususa.com/endorses-obamabiden-romney-1950s.html
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Independent and Global Women NIX NOW and Other Women’s Groups Premature Endorsement of Obama:
Exercising A Woman’s Right to Change Her Mind on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Sentiments
WANT WOMEN VP NOW, 5050 Tickets or Will BOYCOTT ELECTION
Independent women are dissenting with NOW, Feminist Majority and other women’s organizations endorsement of Obama, and urging a likely boycott of the upcoming election as planned, and call for it to be either held under fair free election laws with free media for all candidates that 65 nations already have, and include gender 50-50, and a woman Partner Vice-President retroactive to 2008 with Joseph Biden stepping down, or rescheduled for 2013.Indeed, they are calling upon both the Democratic and Republican parties to stop playing games with women, and offer an overdue full gender 5050 on tickets, drawn from the many women serving these campaigns as well as the large pool of educated intelligent women in the US, or cease and desist from further deception of the American people about democracy and what is needed to steward the United States national region in the 21st century.
In a voice of passionate dissent, speaking on behalf of and representing the millions of women’s who are not members of any women’s group, but apparently more informed than many women’s groups such as Now and Feminist Majority about the absolute necessity of full women’s representation at this time to protect democracy and the planet Earth, the independent women are urging the women of America to follow the same wisdom of Naawal el Saadawi a very famous woman’s leader in Egypt, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_G10kkahc0, who was followed by 49% of Egyptians who boycotted the recent election in Egypt, that offered a “choice” between two evils, rather than a true choice, with true representation, particularly for women, and this time, make it a boycott of the 51% of the American people who are female. and the large percentage of the 49% men, who realize the government with equal representation of women protects women’s rights more securely, protects the environment, and protects the 99% against the hierarchical sociopathy of the 1% that has has been destroying this region of the world.
The Independent Women say there was a miscommunication at US Women’s Connect a group that actively works on 5050 that was only given a few days to consider whether to endorse Obama, and that such a serious decision needed more than a few days, and was premature. They are encouraging US Women’s Connect, NOW, the Feminist Majority and others who participated in the endorsement to exercise “A Woman’s Right to Change Her Mind”. If you Google the phrase “A Women’s Right to Change Her Mind”, hundreds of links come up. In a country that has been representing only the most dominating of one gender for nearly 250 years, and a world that has been giving somen second class citizenship for millennia, women are under enormous pressure to accept the lesser of two male evils, as usual. That is why it is so important for wise women to exercise their right to change their mind…and their world, now. US Women’s Connect is being urged to not wait for 2020 to call on the US, and UN, to implement 5050, but to implement it now in national regions, or the world may never see 2020, due to environmental collapse.
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