Why Mitt Romney Is The Worst Possible Candidate For Women
It goes beyond just our right to choose.
Still undecided about who should be our next president? Election Day is in less than a week (November 6th to be exact), so now's the time to put some serious thought into who you're voting for. Of course, I'd never tell anyone who to endorse — but I will give you a hint: If you have a vagina and you're sexually active, you probably shouldn’t be voting for Mitt Romney. In fact, you probably definitely shouldn't. We're talking about a man who wants to put an end to some forms of contraception and consider them "criminal" if used. What year is this again?
And it gets worse. If chosen, Romney and company will do their best to take away funding for Planned Parenthood. The conservative "right" will tell you that this is because Planned Parenthood does little more than provide abortions. But in truth, only 3% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortions — legal and safe abortions. In fact, some of their clinics don't do abortions at all.
About 35% of what Planned Parenthood does is provide contraception to those who can't afford it, so less woman are faced with the painful decision of whether or not to abort in cases of unintended pregnancy. The rest of Planned Parenthood's services account for STD education and testing, counseling, cancer screening and prenatal and pregnancy care. For more than five million women (and men), Planned Parenthood's services are a necessity — and one that will be eliminated should Romney be our next president.
Romney even wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Granted this will be tough, but he's going to try anyway. He'd like to see this landmark decision dropped to state level, as oppose to reigning high at a federal level that keeps it at least somewhat safe. Without the right to safe procedures, we'll be looking at back-alley abortions once again — and a death toll that's totally avoidable.
Let's not even need to get into what he hopes to do to Obamacare.
Health issues aside, consider the fact that Romney also promises to cut jobs that just happen to be in women-dominated fields, like teaching. (I mean, we already know what he plans to do with Big Bird, so obviously education isn’t important to him.) And Romney has zero intention of supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act, which helps to close the gender pay gap between women and men. Maybe it's because his wife has never worked a day in her life — or maybe it's just an utter disregard for women as equals — that he has no concept of just how important it is for women to be able to kick through glass ceiling and stand beside men.
But that's just my two cents. The decision is ultimately up to you. Which candidate are you leaning toward?
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