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Alert White Plains: Special Election March 31st – Right to Life Candidate Targets Mayor’s Job!
March 20th, 2011 by catherineALERT!
SPECIAL ELECTION
THURSDAY, MARCH 31ST !
If you live in the
City of White Plains
and
you care about
Choice, Women, Children, and Families
YOU NEED TO KNOW
Tom Roach is the good guy running for Mayor of White Plains in a Special Election being held on March 31, 2011. He is running on the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence party lines.
Former President of the City Council, and, now, acting Mayor of White Plains,Tom Roach is a 100% pro-choice advocate who will protect our women, children, and families.
Roach understands the importance of our clinics, childcare, health centers, and the importance of protecting access to our reproductive health care centers.
His opponent, Bob Hyland, has a history of being endorsed by the Right to Life party. A high profile former football player and sports bar owner, Hyland has no experience in elected office. His claim to fame is that in 1988 he tried to register to vote as a member of both the Republican and Right to Life parties.
According to the anti-choice zealot website LifeNet, Hyland has a record of helping the [Right to Life] cause.
Astorino, His Puppets & Imitators, & Washington Extremism
What is going on in Washington DC, brought on by the anti-choice zealots empowered by the Republican win last November, can happen here in Westchester County and in its towns and cities like the County’s capital–White Plains.
Hyland is an Astorino impersonator who will do to White Plains what Astorino is hard at work trying to do to the County!
Tom Roach stands with Governor Cuomo
for Women’s Reproductive Rights!
The Message Here:
THURSDAY, MARCH 31st!
Special Elections have a very low turnout because few people realize the election is occurring.
Thus your vote will have a multi-fold impact!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE
TOM ROACH!
Join Us – Rally For Women’s Health! – Feb 26th – Foley Square
February 24th, 2011 by catherineFor
WOMEN’S HEALTH & RIGHTS!
JOIN WITH WOMEN
FROM ACROSS THE STATE
AND MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD!
Saturday, February 26th Foley Square
(Across from the Court House in Lower Manhattan,
between Lafayette St. & Centre St.
New York, NY 10007)
1-3pm
Directions: Take the #4, 5 or 6 SUBWAY downtown to BROOKLYN BRIDGE/CITY HALL STATION. Exit at the rear of the platform, towards the last car of the subway train. When you come up above ground you will be standing in Foley Square.
REMEMBER
1. H.R. 3, misleadingly called the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ);
2. H.R. 358, the so-called “Protect Life Act” sponsored by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa); and
3. H.R. 217, Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, sponsored by
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). (PASSED IN THE HOUSE 2/18/2011.)
We Must Stop this anti-choice run-away-train Congress! There are lives at stake – those of the living, breathing women of this nation!
Last Friday, the House passed the Pence Amendment (H.R. 217.)
This amendment—if it passes the Senate–will mean the end of federal support for an organization, Planned Parenthood, that each year provides more than 800,000 women with breast exams, more than 4 million Americans with testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, lifesaving cancer screenings, HIV testing, and 2.5 million people with contraception.
But that is not enough! They now want to zero out all funding for Title X in the Federal budget. That means all the health centers we know and have come to rely on will get NO funds for Title X. Women will die!
Right now, our pro-choice congressional representatives and advocates are fighting back but they need us. They need to hear from us!
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Sponsoring Organizations: (List in formation) Choice Matters, Community Health Care Networks Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Feminist Majority Foundation, Inwood House, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, National Council of Jewish Women New York Section, New York Civil Liberties Union, NOW-New York City, NOW-New York State, Planned Parenthood Affiliates New Jersey, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Planned Parenthood of New York City, PRCH, Public Health Association of New York City, Public Health Solutions, Raising Women’s Voices, Religious Institute, Reproductive Health Access Project, SisterSong NY, Trust Black Women, Trust Women, United Neighborhood Houses, Violence Intervention Program Inc., Women’s Media Center, YWCA of Brooklyn
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REP. ENGEL – ATTACKS ON WOMEN’S HEALTH THE WRONG MESSAGE
February 19th, 2011 by catherineCongressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17) twice offered an amendment to the so called “Protect Life Act,” (H.R. 358) in an attempt to thwart attacks on women’s health resulting from the Republican bill. Rep. Engel is a senior member on the House Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health. (To view the entire debate and vote on the amendment in the Health Subcommittee – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF8CpmEP57w)
Rep. Engel’s amendment, defeated Tuesday by the full Energy and Commerce Committee by a vote of 31-19, would maintain current laws which protect both doctors who do not practice abortion and those who do. The so-called “Protect Life Act,” does away with basic protections except for those health care providers who oppose abortion. The measure would criminalize anyone who would do the procedure or even educate a woman on her choices. The House also voted on Friday to pass an amendment to strip funding for Planned Parenthood, a measure Rep. Engel voted against.
“If this irresponsible bill becomes law it would put the lives of women at risk. It is ironic that a bill titled ‘protect life’ could result in the inevitable loss of life. These bills are the Republican Majority’s opening salvo in their determined quest to dismantle the existing law protecting a woman’s right to seek medical assistance for her own body. Make no mistake, this bill may pass the House and then go nowhere, but this is not going to stop the Republican’s attempts to pass more extreme legislation to advance their social agenda,” said Rep. Engel.
“I am sure that there are doctors and nurses who believe that they are morally required to provide a requested abortion to a victim of rape, or in an emergency situation,” said Rep. Engel. “However, the Republican leadership only wants to protect one group’s conscience, and no others. This is wrong and it’s not fair.”
Unfortunately, pro-choice health providers are not protected by Roe v. Wade, as some claim. “If a hospital fires a doctor because he performs abortions elsewhere, that’s not protected by Roe v. Wade. Nor is it protected if a nurse is not given a job because she has provided counseling on abortion. There are also cases where a hospital chooses to provide training on safe abortion methods and is denied a grant as a result. This bill does not protect these care providers from discrimination for simply following the law. I find it to be very disappointing that the Majority refused to protect these doctors and chose instead to advance a political agenda.”
Rep. Engel added, “This bill is not equal conscience-protection, instead it is a government advancement of a particular viewpoint—and we don’t do that in this country. This is more of the Republican Right ill-advised plan to refight the culture wars of the past.”
“We should not protect one group’s conscience and criminalize another’s; it’s not fair and it’s not right. We need the two-way protections that exist in current law and my amendment would have provided that.”
Rep. Engel is a longtime supporter of women’s reproductive rights and has a 100% voting record from Planned Parenthood, WCLA (Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion) – Choice Matters and NARAL Pro-Choice America. “For a party that rails against government intrusion in people’s lives, the Republicans want the federal government involved in one of the most personal decisions made by a woman and her family. For me that is the height of hypocrisy,” added Rep. Engel.
