if you can.
(unless you live in new england, where your votes pretty much don’t count for shit.)
- 10 Things EVERY WOMAN Should Know About John McCain & Sarah Palin BEFORE YOU VOTE
- John McCain opposes equal pay legislation, saying it wouldn’t do “anything to help the rights of women.”
- John McCain opposes requiring health care plans to cover prescription birth control.
- John McCain and Sarah Palin oppose comprehensive, medically accurate sex education.
- John McCain opposes commonsense funding to prevent unintended and teen pregnancies.
- John McCain and Sarah Palin want to tax health care benefits for the first time since the 1950s.
- John McCain opposes restoring family planning services for low-income women.
- Sarah Palin opposes abortion even in the case of rape and incest.
- John McCain voted against the Violence Against Women Act, which ensures rape survivors are not charged for the emergency exams used to prosecute their attackers. While Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, rape survivors were forced to pay for these exams, which cost up to $1,200.
- When asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV, John McCain said he was “stumped.”
- In his 25 years in Washington, DC, John McCain has voted against women’s reproductive rights and privacy 125 times.
(source: planned parenthood)
if you are a woman, don’t vote for barack obama: vote for your rights over your own body. vote for your freedom of choice. vote for your rights of privacy. VOTE FOR YOUR HEALTH.