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The Women are Watching Bus Stops in Columbus, Ohio

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The big pink bus rolled into Columbus, Ohio on Day 7 of the Women are Watching bus tour. Cecile Richards takes a minute to explain why Planned Parenthood Action Fund is on the road and why this election is so important for women's health and rights. http://womenarewatching.org

President Obama's Full Remarks in Denver, Colorado - with Sandra Fluke Introduction

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President Obama held a grassroots event in Denver, Colorado where he highlighted how health reform has helped women get access to the care they need.

Thanks to Obamacare:

Elizabeth Banks on Planned Parenthood, Women's Health, and Women's Rights

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Elizabeth Banks shares why women's health security is important and how Planned Parenthood helped her after college. She shares the difference between President Obama's continuing support for women and Mitt Romney's plan to compromise women's rights.

Annie: "I have a second chance at life."

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Annie survived an extremely rare form of cancer and without Obamacare she runs the risk of not being covered in the future due to her pre-existing conditions.

Now with a second chance at life; she's taking nothing for granted. After hearing President Obama speak on Planned Parenthood she started volunteering in Colorado. Now she's a Summer Organizer.

"Troubled"

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Every woman who believes decisions about our bodies and our health care should be our own is troubled Mitt Romney supports overturning Roe versus Wade. Romney backed a law that outlaws all abortion -- even in cases of rape and incest. And that's not all.

President Obama at the 2012 Women's Leadership Forum

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Hello everybody, It's fair to say that there's been a bit of talk of women and women's issues so far this year. And I've said before, I want to repeat, I think it's been oversimplified, women are not an interest group. Women shouldn't be treated that way. Women are half this country and half of its workforce.

President Obama at the 2012 Women's Leadership Forum

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Hello everybody,

It's fair to say that there's been a bit of talk of women and women's issues so far this year. And I've said before, I want to repeat, I think it's been oversimplified, women are not an interest group. Women shouldn't be treated that way. Women are half this country and half of its workforce. Your 80% of my household if you count my mother-in-law and I always count my mother-in-law. So I got a vested interest in making sure we do well.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, supports President Obama

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 Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, supports President Obama because he believes in women and trusts women to make responsible decisions. She notes the strong contrast between the positions of President Obama and the Republican party leadership who seem to want to put government in between women and their doctors.

Favorite Quotes

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act. And Joe Biden did a great job with both.

Democratic National Convention, September 5, 2012