Eleanor Smeal
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March 19, 2013
Tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on the Ryan Budget. It is devastating to women’s advancement and to programs that women want and need. It is the budget that women overwhelming voted against in the 2012 election with a decisive gender gap. HERvotes , with its 52 women’s organizations, is urging a NO vote. The Ryan Budget would repeal all of the benefits in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) while it keeps the cost savings -- a hypocritical slight of hand. And women would pay dearly. Health insurance companies could once again treat women as a “pre-existing condition” and...
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November 15, 2011
Welcome to the fifth #HERvotes blog carnival on the need to keep strong the laws and public policies to end sex discrimination and sexual harassment in schools and at the workplace. The HERvotes, a multi-organizational campaign launched in August 2011, advocates women must use our voices and votes to stop the attacks on the Women’s movement’s major advances at risk in the next election. We are very excited HERvotes is reaching a growing list of member groups and organizations and millions of people. While HERvotes called attention in early November to the dangerous personhood state...
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