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DMW · 03-05-2013, 02:18 PM

Dear Friend,

There's an urgent new threat to birth control coverage, and all of us have to speak out right away before it gets any traction.

This time, 11 prominent right-wing members of Congress have filed a legal brief in support of Hobby Lobby--the major craft retail chain that is suing the Obama Administration over the requirement that health insurers cover birth control.1 Hobby Lobby's conservative CEO and these members of Congress apparently don't think women can make their own health care decisions--that somehow a woman's boss at work should be the one telling her what to do.

In the past year, conservatives have tried to gut birth control coverage time and time again.2 Even after getting walloped by the women's vote at the ballot box in November, they kept trying.3 But they've failed every time, so now they're trying a new route—the courts. And this strategy might just be the scariest they've tried yet because if they win, it will set an incredibly bad precedent for women's health care and reproductive choice.4 Imagine: a legal decision that says your boss gets to make decisions about your health care, not you. That's scary.

That's why we've partnered with our friends at EMILY's List to send them a message: just stop. Birth control is a personal, medical decision, and it's not up to politicians or employers to dictate how women use it. Republicans need to stop trying to block women's access. If UltraViolet members and EMILY's List members speak out together, they'll hear us loud and clear.

Hobby Lobby is a major crafts retailer in the United States and employs thousands of women across 14 states.5 US companies can't flout the law just because they don't like it. Big corporations and small businesses are run by all sorts of people in our country, many religious, many not. Allowing company management to impose their beliefs on employees is just plain un-American.
If the court sides with them and finds that an employer can choose which type of birth control is available to their employees, it would set a dangerous precedent for other cases and give extremists another opening to attack women's rights and access to health care.6
And now, 11 prominent members of Congress have given this lawsuit greater credibility and asked the courts to set a dangerous precedent for all women. But we know that politicians care about their next election more than virtually anything else, and if we can show them this is a loser with women voters, we can get them to drop their attacks on birth control--and stop them from gaining traction. The more of us that speak out, the louder our voices will be. UltraViolet and EMILY's List members together will hold these politicians accountable make sure they know that if they mess with women, we will fight back and we will win. Please join us in this important campaign.
Sign the petition.
Thanks for speaking out.
Nita, Shaunna, Kat, and Karin, the UltraViolet team

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign...KZT88&rd=1&t=3

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2759780.html

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/0...care-loophole/

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03-05-2013, 02:18 PM	#185
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