NARAL Blog for Choice, September 12, 2012
Last week, ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D – Ca.), published a report documenting all of the anti-woman and anti-choice votes held by leaders of the U.S. House Representatives since January 2011.
The report details 55 votes – all shamelessly anti-woman.
Here are just a few highlights/lowlights:
- A vote to ban abortion for women in Washington, D.C. who face complications later in pregnancy.
- Votes to repeal Obamacare and effectively take away women’s access to affordable preventive-health services.
- A vote to allow hospitals to refuse to provide a woman emergency, life-saving abortion care, even if she could die without it.
Our own Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, was featured in the report:
“From the ‘Let Women Die’ bill to IRS rape audits to attempts to defund family-planning programs, Americans have seen an unprecedented number of attacks on women’s health in recent months. Rep. Waxman’s report documents the lengths to which this Congress has gone in trying to dismantle reproductive freedom – and will serve as a clarion call to every American woman who cares about her rights.”
Rep. Waxman’s report further exposes how anti-choice leaders in Congress are waging a War on Women.
We’re not going to let these anti-woman politicians vote our rights away. On November 6, we’ll show them that they won’t get away with their anti-woman agenda.
War on Women 
Posted on September 12, 2012