Women’s Rights and Access to Abortion and Birth Control at Stake November 2

Victoria Phillips
10/16/10
4:38 pm

“Representatives from more than 40 women rights organizations and women leaders throughout California held press conferences today in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles to urge women to vote on November 2nd to ensure women’s rights stay intact.” These representatives fear that without women voting in the upcoming election, women may not continue to have access to abortion, equal marriage rights, pay equity, family planning, as well as many other rights women have gained in the past 60 years. California obviously needs more women running for office because Meg Whitman, who is running for governor, and Carly Fiorina, who is running for US senator, have made it clear that women’s rights are not on their list of priorities. In a recent CNN/New York Times poll, women are more likely to vote democratic. However, if the majority of women choose not to vote, that would leave the election results mostly up to the men by default.
It is very important for women to vote in upcoming elections. Women are just starting to gain major ground in the fight for women’s rights. Therefore, women voting in the upcoming elections is very crucial. If women don’t take the initiative to vote, we could lose everything the women before us fought to get. To change things for women in the future and for today, we must vote for a candidate who has women’s rights as one of their top priorities. The one big questions is “why would women not want to vote?”



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