A new website – worth ten to fifteen minutes of your time to peruse.
What happens when the following groups come together?
Coalition Members
• American Association of University Women
• Advocates for Youth
• Black Women’s Health Imperative
• Black Women’s Roundtable
• Business and Professional Women’s Foundation
• Center for Advancement of Public Policy
• Center for Health and Gender Equity
• Center for Women Policy Studies
• Coalition of Labor Union Women
• Dolores Huerta Foundation
• Family Values at Work
• Fem2.0
• Feminist Majority
• Feminist Majority Foundation
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs
• Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc.
• Jewish Women International
• League of Women Voters
• MergerWatch
• MomsRising
• Ms. Magazine
• NARAL Pro-Choice America
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Coalition of 100 Black Women
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• National Conference of Puerto Rican Women
• National Congress of Black Women
• National Council of Negro Women
• National Council of Women’s Organization
• National Council of Jewish Women
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• National Organization for Women
• National Partnership for Women and Families
• National Women’s Health Network
• National Women’s Law Center
• National Women’s Political Caucus
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need
• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
• RH Reality Check
• Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women
• SisterSong
• UltraViolet
• Wider Opportunities for Women
• Women Donors Network
• Women’s Campaign Fund
• Women’s Information Network
• Women’s Media Center
• Women’s Research and Education Institute (WREI)
• Women’s Voting Project, CCMC
• YWCA USA
The goal is to mobilize women voters in 2012 around preserving women’s Health and Economic Rights (HER rights.)
The top priorities of HERvotes are to educate and engage more women to use their voices and their votes to urge lawmakers who seek to represent them to:
• Stop the attacks on historic advances for women;
• Preserve successful policies, such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act;
• Respect women’s contribution to the economy; and
• Act on jobs at livable wages and equal pay for our families’ economic security
And they detail the
“Current attacks against Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and Title X are
attacks against women, plain and simple,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. “It’s unjust to prioritize Wall Street corporations over Main Street women and families as some leaders are doing now.”
Today HERvotes is releasing a list of the top 10 historic laws that impacted women’s lives and security, but are now in danger of being weakened, cut or eliminated by extremist policies at the federal, state and local levels. This top 10 list of health and economic security cornerstones includes the Social Security Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Title X (the National Family Planning Program), Equal Pay Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act.
Melanie L. Campbell, president & CEO and convener, Black Women’s Roundtable, said, “Women of color will be disproportionately impacted by the attacks on these top 10 historic laws that empower women to live our best lives for ourselves, our families, our communities and our nation. For instance, cuts in Social Security would send more women of color into poverty. The National Senior Citizens Law Center recently released a report that the majority of single women of color rely on social security for 90 percent of their income.”
A website worth ten or fifteen minutes of your time to peruse.
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