women

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."

Only decades ago women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions, or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party officially promotes forcing rape victims to bear the children of their attackers as part of its assault against a woman's right to choose--we had to ask:

Why is Romney & Ryan's GOP trying to send women back. . . to the back alley?

Todd Akin is getting all the attention these days, but what about politicians who agree with him? When it comes to women's health, Todd Akin and Paul Ryan are exactly the same. Take a stand against opponents of women's health like Akin and Ryan: http://ppaction.org/akin

Voiceover: "He's made his choice. But what choices will women be left with?"

"Just like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan would get rid of Planned Parenthood funding."

"In Congress, Ryan voted to ban all federal funding for Planned Parenthood..."

"...and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control."

Demographic projections taken from Texas State Data Center's 2008 population projections

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.

Dawn: "I think Mitt Romney's really out of touch with the average woman's health issues..."

Alex: "This is not the 1950s. Contraception is so important to women...it's about a woman being able to make decisions..."

Dawn "I don't remember anyone as extreme as Romney."

Mitt Romney: "I'll cut off funding to Planned Parenthood."

The Republican Party continues to pass harsh laws restricting access to women's healthcare across the country, but the mainstream press has stopped paying attention.

That's why we've produced a short documentary that cogently explains the state and national efforts by Republicans--including Mitt Romney--to limit access to birth control and other basic women's health services.

Jenni's story:

Jenni: "I've never felt this way before but it's a scary time to be a woman. Mitt Romney is so out of touch."

Voiceover: "Mitt Romney opposes requiring coverage for contraception. And Romney supports overturning Roe versus Wade. Romney backed a bill that outlaws all abortion even in cases of rape and incest."