Women, make your voices heard at polls

How is this even possible? In 2015, women are still saying to men, “Please let us have health care coverage.” “Please let us have access to birth control.” “Please let us be able to end a pregnancy created by rape or incest.”

How is it possible that women, who make up 53 percent of the voting electorate, are still saying “Please don’t defund Planned Parenthood”?

Thankfully, in 2010, President Barack Obama gave the American people the ability to buy their own health care coverage with the Affordable Care Act, from which now some 16 million people are benefiting. Women now can choose from over 20 forms of birth control and, for the first time, determine their own health care decisions with their doctors’ recommendations.

But wait. Then we have the Hobby Lobby decision by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative male justices — which tells millions of women, “If you work for a person who doesn’t believe in birth control because of his religion, you would not be given the option that the federal law put into effect.”

I guess one person’s religious beliefs are more important and superior to another’s, especially when that person is an employer, a man and a Republican. Women, it is time to make our voices heard by using our vote — the greatest equalizer to injustice there is.

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