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Take Action: Representative Walsh: Stop Spreading Lies
Tell Congressman Joe Walsh to stop spreading hypocritical lies about women's health care.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 1,366
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
Illinois Representative Joe Walsh keeps saying, "This is not about women. This is not about contraceptives. This is about religious liberties."
But his support of cutting health care benefits to women isn't about liberty at all — it's about imposing his own views on everyone else.
President Obama's mandate says no institution can deny its employees the option for birth control on the basis of religion — meaning no group can dictate to a woman what she should or shouldn't do based on its religious views. Walsh wants to open the door to institutions making all employees follow their religious beliefs and that's a dangerous road to go down. What's next? Telling employees they must keep their hair or faces covered at work? Telling them what type of relationships will or won't be tolerated?
Let's make this truly about liberty, Rep. Walsh, and not let religious beliefs become a loophole for ignoring the law of the land.
Dear Representative Joe Walsh:
I have taken issue with some of your recent comments regarding the issue of mandated birth control coverage. During an all-male meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, you said of the situation, "This is not about women. This is not about contraceptives...is about religious freedom. This is about religious liberties."
I am writing to reveal to you just how hypocritical that statement is. You're claiming that mandating safe, effective medication that keeps women healthy and helps them prevent unplanned pregnancies is an assault on religious freedom. Yet, isn't forcing women to live without necessary treatment due to her employer's religious beliefs a form of religious persecution as well?
You need to realize that birth control isn't about you or religion; it's simply about giving women the power to make their own informed choices.
You are trying to stymie the progress women have made over centuries, and I won't stand for it. Stop your hypocritical and selfish discourse now.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 6, 2013
Kenneth Davies
May 5, 2013
Penny Pursley
May 4, 2013
Deborah Ginsberg
May 4, 2013
baez stephanie
May 3, 2013
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May 3, 2013
Terry Smith
May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
Llewelyn LaVista
May 3, 2013
Lauren Lunde
May 2, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
Laurie Kehl
Apr 27, 2013
Beth Malone
Apr 26, 2013
sandra patterson
Apr 24, 2013
Jan Blanchard
What a sicko you are Joe Walsh! Let me know when you become a 'woman' because only then will your opinion be valued. Go back a few hundred years where you belong. Can't imagine being a woman in your family. I wouldn't stand for your rot.
Apr 24, 2013
Ernst Mecke
Apr 23, 2013
Barbara Policriti
Apr 22, 2013
Stephanie Reap
Apr 22, 2013
Karen Parks
Apr 21, 2013
Zee Kallah
Apr 21, 2013
Amanda Davis
Apr 14, 2013
Amy Mulvany
Apr 13, 2013
isabel serodio
Apr 12, 2013
Daniel Drew
Apr 11, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 11, 2013
Nerry Jimenez
Apr 10, 2013
Casey Phillips
Apr 10, 2013
David Randall
Soem people have a very hard time recognizing the truth, especially when it gets in the way of their ignorance.
Apr 10, 2013
Laura Zander Racic
Apr 10, 2013
Linda Gertig
Apr 10, 2013
Dennis Schaef
Apr 10, 2013
Anna Meacham
Apr 8, 2013
Janet Dougherty
Apr 8, 2013
Thea Clark
Apr 7, 2013
gaile carr
Apr 6, 2013
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Apr 6, 2013
Paige Garberding
Mr. Walsh, Contrary to your sexist views, women are capable of making, and entitled to make, our own decisions regarding our health care, reproductive functions, AND religion. We don't want or need you to make them for us.
Apr 6, 2013
Meiju Lehtiniitty
Apr 6, 2013
Rosalia Casals
Apr 4, 2013
chinyelum AHIABUIKE
Apr 2, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Please allow us control over our own choices in birth control!
Apr 1, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Mar 31, 2013
Jessica Schwartz
Mar 29, 2013
Debbie Luchka
Mar 28, 2013
Janice Gintzler
Appeal to your inner Christian values and throw out those "oppose Obama" antics.
Mar 28, 2013
tia pearson
Mar 28, 2013
Steve Anderson
Mar 28, 2013
Wayne Brumley
Mar 28, 2013
cheryll miller
It IS about women's rights, Rep. Walsh.
Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
Elizabeth O'Connor
