WOMEN WHO FOUGHT FOR THE VOTE. Will You Vote for them in 2014? Poll.

On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting to win that right: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The leaders of this campaign did not always agree with one another–in fact, sometimes their disagreements threatened to derail their movement–but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.

http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/women-who-fought-for-the-vote

Did You See How Republicans Tried to Tamper With Women's Health Insurance Plans This Week?

The bill passed this week would impose even harsher restrictions by prohibiting millions of women from using their own money to buy health care plans that cover comprehensive reproductive care. It would affect women who work for small businesses by denying tax credits to companies that provide abortion coverage. And it denies comprehensive plans to women who qualify for a tax credit when purchasing insurance through the health care exchanges. In this way the proposal disproportionately impacts low-income women who need the most help getting covered.

Despite all the real problems that need solving in this country like an unemployment rate that is still too high and a shrinking middle class, Republicans remain focused on curbing a woman's reproductive choices and defunding proven programs that have helped to lift women and children out of poverty and improve their safety, health, and well-being.

You can't execute a war on women and cover it up with rhetoric and niceties. You can't make restricting abortion access the top priority for one of our country's two main political parties and think women will look the other way. When 99 percent of Americans have used birth control at some point in their lives, you can't expect that women won't notice when Republicans actively work to cut access to contraception. And you can't continually work to shut down Planned Parenthood and expect us to go along with it. The list goes on and on.

They may not want anyone to call this a war on women. But I would point out to them that women -- and only women -- are the casualties of this multi-front assault on reproductive rights.

Read More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-carolyn-maloney/did-you-see-how-republica_b_4696899.html









Let's shut them down!

Our lives, all our lives hinge on 2014. Vote as if your life and your families life depends upon it, because it does.