Romney/Ryan/Allen team is too extreme for Virginia women

August 16, 2012

The Washington Post reports, "Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin campaigns in Glen Allen and Springfield Friday, less than a week after Mitt Romney unveiled him as his running mate in Norfolk. Ryan will attend a rally at Glen Allen's Deep Run High School in the morning and another at Springfield's West Springfield High School in the afternoon."

Progressive Point: We fought long and hard for equal rights for women so why are Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and George Allen trying to turn back the clock? They support extreme personhood legislation that would give a fertilized egg legal rights. Ryan voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Act to ensure woman get paid the same amount as men for doing the same work. They'd even outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest as well a certain kinds of birth control. 

Women and their families should make decisions about seeking health care and when to have children, not government politicians. Virginia women need a leadership team in Washington who will stand up for our rights, not attack them. The Romney/Ryan/Allen team's extreme positions make one thing clear: they don't value Virginia women.

Get the Facts:

• Planned Parenthood reports on Paul Ryan's record with women:
  • He voted to end funding to Planned Parenthood, which would have denied nearly three million women and men annually the access to birth control and cancer screenings that Planned Parenthood health centers provide. [H. Con. Res. 36, 2/18/11]
  
  
  • He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and ban abortion in all cases, a decision that should be left up to a woman, her family, and her faith, with the counsel of her doctor.  Ryan said he opposed all abortions and wants to end all safe and legal abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the woman. [Wisconsin State Journal, 10/9/98; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/26/98]
  
  
  • He wrote a plan to dismantle Medicaid, jeopardizing the basic health care millions of women rely on.  His proposal to overhaul Medicaid would undermine women's health by completely dismantling the Medicaid program, a key public health program that provides basic health care and family planning to millions of women, including well-woman exams, lifesaving cancer screenings, and contraceptive services. [Real Clear Politics, 4/5/11]
  
  
  • Congressman Ryan co-sponsored a so-called "personhood" bill last year, a dangerous measure that would give full constitutional rights to fertilized eggs and could ban some forms of birth control and fertility treatment. [HR 212, introduced1/7/11]
  
  
  • He has tried repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would take away full coverage for birth control and well-woman exams, allow insurance companies to resume charging women more than men for coverage, allow insurance companies to again deny coverage for pre-existing conditions (like breast cancer, pregnancy, and domestic violence), and make it harder for low-income women to get lifesaving cancer screenings. [Real Clear Politics, 4/5/11]

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