Texas Women's Health Program
This ruling will put approximately 52,000 low-income TX women at risk.
Women have been fighting for their equality and autonomy for decades. We've made a heck of a lot progress, but there is still a long way to go.
1973 – Roe vs. Wade passed.
1993 – Spousal Rape finally made illegal in all 50 states.
2012 – Georgia passed the “Women as Livestock” Bill (H.B. 954).
The political climate is more hostile to women today than at any point in the last 40 years.
This is the modern
More Black men (67%) agree that there's a War on Women than any other race:
Likely voters in the following regions agree that there's a War on Women:
Texas banned government funding for Planned Parenthood (PPFA) under the Texas Women's Health Program, essentially cutting any government funding to PPFA.
Abortions are less than 3% of PPFA's services.
wage-gap between women and men in 2012.
a woman's average monetary loss over a 40-year career due to the wage gap.
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
The Paycheck Fairness Act, which would prohibit gender-based pay discrepancies & ban workplace policies that prohibit employees from disclosing their wages with each other.
number of male anti-abortion leaders who will become pregnant.
number of anti-abortion restrictions in 24 states were passed in 2011. An all-time record.
number of states that have permanent laws ensuring the protection of Roe vs. Wade.
The Personhood Amendment was first put on the ballot in Colorado.
Personhood laws defines a fertilized human egg as a legal person, criminalizing abortion with no exceptions, and banning common forms of birth control, stem cell research, and in-vitro fertilization.
Obama repealed the Global Gag Rule.
The "Let Women Die" Act (H.R. 358) introduced.
Georgia passed the Women as Livestock Bill (H.B. 954).
This Bill criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks, even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the fetus isn’t expected to live to term. No exceptions for rape or incest.
states -- AL, AZ, ID, IN, KS, NE & OK -- have similar "fetal pain" restrictions & NC restricts abortion at 20 weeks.
Arizona passed H.B. 2036 declaring women 'pregnant' 2 weeks before conception.
The law defines pregnancy in a way that bans abortion 2 weeks before the other 7 states with similar laws. It calculates gestational age at the 1st day of the last menstrual period vs. the date of conception.
lawsuits have been filed to block access to contraception coverage.
states permit pharmacies or pharmacists to use their religion to refuse to provide women with birth control or emergency contraception.
Health and Human Services (HHS) mandated that health insurance plans provide contraceptive services without co-pays.
Prior to this, viagra was covered by insurance more frequently than contraceptives.
Idaho, Missouri, and Arizona introduced measures to the Affordable Care Act to expand exemptions to secular insurers or businesses that object to covering contraception, abortion, and sterilization.
The House GOP planned to Redefine Rape.
A provision that would limit the rape exemptions to "forcible rape," ruling out federal assistance for abortions in many rape cases, when force couldn't be proved.
Congressman Todd Akin claimed that "legitimate rape" doesn't usually lead to pregnancy.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors pregnancy from rape is really rare," Akin said. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was not renewed.
VAWA provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, and more. The Act's 2012 renewal was fiercely opposed by conservative Republicans, who objected to extending the Act's protections to same-sex couples and to provisions allowing battered illegal immigrants to claim temporary visas.
approximate number of pregnancies that result from rape annually in the US.
$4.8m
cost of keeping the House of Representatives open for one day.
x 52
number of days that the House business was sidelined by the War on Women between January 2011 and July 2012.
$249.6m
taxpayer money wasted on the War on Women.
