· NO on International Family Planning Funding for education, information, and services to help poor people around the world protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
· NO on Emergency Contraception
· NO on Abortion Access for Women in the Military
· NO on Comprehensive Family Planning
· NO on Teen Health and Safety for Reproductive Rights
· NO on Violence Against Reproductive Healthcare Providers
· NO on Supreme Court Nominations
· NO to Protect Medicare Benefits for Low Income Families
· McCain OPPOSED REQUIRING COVERAGE OF PRESCRIPTION BIRTH CONTROL. In 2003, McCain voted NO on legislation to improve the availability of contraceptives for women and to require insurance coverage of prescription birth control.
· McCain OPPOSED Title X Family Planning Program. In 1990, McCain voted NO on legislation to extend the Title X federal family planning program, which provides low-income and uninsured women and families with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening to birth control.
· McCain Opposed to Preventative Services to Reduce Teen Pregnancies. In 2005, McCain voted NO to allocate $100 million to expand access to preventive health care services that reduce the numbers of unintended and teen pregnancies and reduce the number of abortions.
· McCain Opposes Accurate Sex Education Programs. McCain opposed legislation requiring that abstinence-only programs be medically accurate and scientifically based. He also voted NO on legislation that would help reduce the number of teen pregnancies by providing funding for programs to teach comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education and other programs to prevent unintended teen pregnancies.
Source: Women for Barack Obama
Just a final thought, there is a class of women who aren’t getting McCain’s support either, and they are the poor who should be entitled to mammograms and cervical pap smears under Medicaid. I hope we have not become so coldhearted that we, as humans, would want to see another woman painfully die from cervical or breast cancer, just because she is too poor to afford the overwhelmingly decent healthcare in this country.
I am very concerned about McCain’s views towards women’s rights. I am very concerned that what we have fought for and gained, he might very well take away and set us back 30 years or more. We need new ideas and growth, not set backs. Maybe, one day America and her leaders will put more effort into correcting the issues affecting many such as; the lack of healthcare, corporate greed, the lack of community and compassion. Maybe, when we figure out what is most important, abortion will not be so prevalent, because it will hardly ever need to be considered.
