SHOULDER - TO SHOULDER WITH EMILY'S LIST

According to Republican Paul Ryan. .  . “Now it’s a War on Women; tomorrow it’s going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.”     

The War on Women is no laughing matter! 

You tell me, are the following facts noted by Emily’s List a joke?

QRepublicans/Tea Partiers introduced 27 anti-choice bills in Congress in 2013 alone, including a national ban on choice at 20 weeks, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives.  This violates every woman’s civil rights under the Constitution.  

Q 1 out of 4 women WILL experience domestic violence in their lifetime, which I too have suffered.  Yet 22 Senate Republicans /Tea Partiers (all men) and more than 130 House Republicans/Tea Partiers voted AGAINST the Violence Against Women Act, a law which protects women from violence!

Q221 Republicans/Tea Partiers voted to support H.R. 7 – a “Rape Audit Bill,” so that Any Rape Victim could be audited by the government and forced to prove her rape to IRS agents.  You tell me, how are the IRS, the police, and FBI interconnected in matters of rape?

QAlmost 2/3 of minimum wage workers are women; yet the U.S. House of Representatives passed the ‘Deceptive Working Families Flexibility Act, to CUT overtime pay and undercut the rights of low-wage earners.  I don’t see them taking a pay cut, only pay raises, do you?

QWhite women earn just 77 cents for each dollar earned by a man doing EQUAL WORK, where Latinas, and African-American women earn an average of fifth cents for every dollar earned by a man doing the same work.  Stil,l Republicans/Tea Partiers blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act in the House, a bill that would have provided help to victims of wage discrimination on the basis of gender (being female).

Q41 states have pro-choice restrictions at various stages of pregnancy.

QAnti-choice state legislatures Attacked Reproductive Rights more than 300 Times in 2013.

Q12 states have choice restrictions on the books that oppose the federal law Roe v. Wade.

Q51% of the entire U.S. population is women; but only 19% of Congress is represented by women!

QThere is only 1 female pro-choice Democratic governor in all of our 50 states.  We aim to change that!

QThe U.S. ranks 80^th in the entire world in our representation of women in elected office, behind Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Sudan – Third World Countries!

QDuring our 238-year history as the United States of America, 0 women have been elected president; yet women have reigned over hundreds of other countries over many centuries.

P HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH?  

P THEN CONTINUE STANDING SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER WITH OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE BATTLING ALONGSIDE EMILY’S LIST TO CHANGE ALL OF THE ABOVE.

YOU – ARE – PART OF OUR POPULATION OF PROGRESSIVE AMERICANS DEVOTED TO ELECTING PRO-CHOICE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN TO OFFICE.  COOPERATIVELY WE WILL END THE GOP’S/TEA PARTY’S ASSAULTS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND FIGHT FOR YOU – AND YOUR FAMILY!

This posting is paraphrased information shared by Emily’s List that I am sharing with you.