Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Diana DeGette, introduce EACH WOMAN ACT

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Last edited Wed Jul 8, 2015, 03:05 PM - Edit history (2)

Just introduced new bill to ensure poor women can access their constitutional rights to reproductive care
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee





https://twitter.com/hashtag/4EACHofUs?src=hash


Politicians should NEVER be allowed to interfere in a woman’s personal health decisions or restrict her choices because of income

No matter how a woman is insured she should have the right to make her own decisions


EACH woman, every option
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With the just-introduced but long overdue EACH [Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance] Woman Act – sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) -- every woman will be allowed to make the choices in her pregnancy that are best for her and her family, without interference from lawmakers. This policy is supported by a majority in our country. For the AAPI community, this is a no-brainer— the majority of AAPIs believe a woman’s decision to get an abortion is a private matter, not one for political interference. Under the EACH Woman Act, insurance coverage of abortion will no longer be a political pawn in Congressional floor debates, or subject to the moral doctrines of anti-choice legislators.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/247077-each-woman-every-option

Life’s most personal decisions – such as when to become a parent – should be just that. But far too often politicians interfere in this most personal decision by banning insurance coverage for abortion care.

That’s why I introduced the EACH Woman Act. It ensures health coverage of abortion for every woman regardless of what she earns or where she lives. Essentially, this bill would repeal Hyde Amendment provisions that prevent a woman from accessing all of her health care options just because she is poor.
Petition
https://act.myngp.com/el/-6119865133037518848/-8551190001260429312?source=070815kickoff

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Excellent!

K & R

[lovemydog]

2. Bravo!

Much needed!

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3. Each woman, every option.

Fantastic!

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4. Kickin'

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5. Great! n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. YES!!!!

Democratic Women!!!

[bettyellen]

7. Go Barbara!

[City Lights]

8. Yay!

[They_Live]

9. K & R

[ananda]

10. Good!

Let it pass.

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11. Too many "R"s and Catholic "D"s for this to pass.

Hopefully there'll be a day that our politics will have changed enough that men no longer think they have the right to control women's reproductive choices.

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12. I wouldn't mind seeing a parallel measure "introduced" - or more precisely, snuck in.

The CONS on Capitol Hill will probably go thermonuclear about this, so let them huff and puff, and meanwhile, some amendment is added or language snuck in somewhere else in a bill THEY want, and if it gets passed, we win this one ANYWAY. In spite of them. This idea should start being tucked in, down deep in the bowels of EVERY bill that surfaces.

If I were in Congress, that's what I'd be trying to do all the time. I'd be going at the fucking Hyde Amendment in every way, shape, and/or form I could think of. Can't get it done the prescribed or old-fashioned way? Then find a way around that and get it done ANYWAY. If it was okay for monica goodling in the bush/cheney justice department (she testified that their Job One was to find ways to "get around" whatever rules or regulations or restrictions they thought were in their way) it should be just as okay for OUR side to do it.

Devious thinkers. We don't have any and the other side is loaded with 'em. That's how they've been able to accomplish so much, especially at the state level, even when WE have more votes and there are more Dems than CONS out there, and majorities of Americans including many on that side of the aisle actually agree with OUR ideas.

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13. Yay, Diana DeGette

Denver (and Colorado) couldn't ask for a better Representative. She's also backing and raising funds for State Senator Morgan Carroll to unseat Coffman in the 6th District. We may get another great woman in the House if Dems all turn out.

[BrotherIvan]

14. Right on!

Keep fighting!!

[Enthusiast]

15. Well done!