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Women from across the state of Virginia came together to take action in support of President Obama and his policies affecting women and their communities.

Tammy Duckworth Speaks Out on Women's Health

It's a simple vaccine to prevent cervical cancer for women. It saves lives. But Joe Heck voted against requiring insurance companies to pay for it. He says that women get cancer from engaging in risky behavior. Joe Heck even opposes a woman's right to choose and voted against funding Planned Parenthood, which provides cancer screenings for over 700,000 women per year. Joe Heck: Heck no!

When women hear about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's plans for women's health, they are appalled. That's why we're making sure voters know exactly where they stand on the issues that matter to women.

WATCH, THINK, ACT, VOTE!  Women are Watching is Planned Parenthood Action Fund's 2012 campaign to educate women and men across the country about the unprecedented attacks on women's health and where candidates stand on pivotal health care issues, empower women to hold anti-women's health candidates of either party accountable, and work to elect pro-women's health candidates up and down the

The big pink bus rolled in to Des Moines, Iowa on Day 6 of the Women are Watching Bus Tour. In front of the State Capitol, Iowa voters heard from youth advocates, medical providers, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa, and Congressman Leonard Boswell on the importance of women's access to health care in the Hawkeye State.

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The Romney-Ryan-Akin Platform for Women

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Why do women have to fight the same old battles? Women still don't get equal pay for equal work - Republicans blocked that, and even pushed a law that could have denied insurance coverage for birth control. We're still fighting to protect a woman's right to choose nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, and we could be just one Supreme Court justice away from losing it.

Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party's views are no longer aligned with their own. They don't support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women.

As they share: "If you truly believe in a small government. That government shouldn't be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body."