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5 Things Every Voter Needs to Know About Mitt Romney and Women
Mitt Romney has joined the Republican War on Women—an extreme effort to undermine women's health. Here's what you need to know:
- Romney threatens contraceptive coverage.
Romney threatens access to contraceptives, opposing the requirement that employer-provided health insurance cover birth control. - He opposes a woman's right to choose.
He flip-flopped on reproductive freedom. Now he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a woman's right to choose. - He would repeal health care reform's protections for women.
Romney wants to repeal the Obama health care law, meaning women could again be denied coverage under the rationale that being a woman is a pre-existing condition. Repealing the law would also end the protection that says insurance companies can't charge more just because a patient is a woman. - He refused to condemn Rush Limbaugh's sexist attack on a student.
Romney refused to stand up to Rush Limbaugh when Limbaugh called law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "whore" for testifying before Congress about the affordability of contraceptives. - He'd "get rid of" Planned Parenthood.
Romney wants to end funding for Planned Parenthood. He said, "Planned Parenthood—"we're going to get rid of that!"
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