Mitt Romney has joined the Republican War on Women—an extreme effort to undermine women's health. Here's what you need to know:
- Romney threatens contraceptive coverage.
Romney threatens access to contraceptives, opposing the requirement that employer-provided health insurance cover birth control. - He opposes a woman's right to choose.
He flip-flopped on reproductive freedom. Now he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a woman's right to choose. - He would repeal health care reform's protections for women.
Romney wants to repeal the Obama health care law, meaning women could again be denied coverage under the rationale that being a woman is a pre-existing condition. Repealing the law would also end the protection that says insurance companies can't charge more just because a patient is a woman. - He refused to condemn Rush Limbaugh's sexist attack on a student.
Romney refused to stand up to Rush Limbaugh when Limbaugh called law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "whore" for testifying before Congress about the affordability of contraceptives. - He'd "get rid of" Planned Parenthood.
Romney wants to end funding for Planned Parenthood. He said, "Planned Parenthood—"we're going to get rid of that!"
