Bad News for McCain

We had a strong hunch, and our latest poll confirms that pro-choice Republican and Independent women - key blocs of swing voters in this year’s election - will not support John McCain for president when they learn he thinks "abortion is a human tragedy," and he believes that we must end abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.

Here’s what you can do to help. Donate today so that NARAL Pro-Choice America can contact the almost 200,000 pro-choice women we identified in 2004 and 2006 in battleground states who will be this year's swing voters. We must get this message out, so please support our Membership Drive by being one of 73 who will stand up for choice today.

Can you imagine the fallout if McCain is elected? He will likely nominate one or more anti-choice Supreme Court Justices! We must do everything we can to ensure John McCain does not become president. What can you do? Easy. Step up today as a leader to defeat McCain and donate $10 or more to NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Membership Drive for Choice!

Click here to become a member of NARAL Pro-Choice America today.

Our goal is to recruit 73 new members each week until the election in honor of the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Dottye, we need you to be one of the 73. Every member makes us stronger politically and financially, and allows us to do our work at every level to protect a woman’s right to choose. All it takes is $10 from every person like you for us to have the resources to defeat John McCain and elect Barack Obama. Please become a member today.

We simply cannot succeed without supporters like you becoming active, financial supporters of our electoral and advocacy work nationwide.

Not convinced to join? Look at McCain’s rigid, anti-choice track record. What hasn’t he tried to take away from women?

• Birth control? McCain is against women’s access to it, and voted more than 20 times to block it.
• Reproductive health care services? McCain doesn’t seem to believe in equal access to them. He voted to eliminate Title X and deny millions of women health-care services ranging from birth control to breast cancer screenings.
• The right to choose? McCain won’t protect it. In fact, he’s voted against choice 125 times out of 130 opportunities since 1983. And he said Roe v. Wade should be overturned!

If Sen. McCain wins the White House, he won’t just continue the same anti-choice Bush legacy, he will be an even greater threat to a woman’s right to choose than President Bush. McCain’s voting record demonstrates he will take every opportunity to deny your mother, your sister, your daughter, or you these basic freedoms.

Join NARAL Pro-Choice America for $10 or more today to be one of the 73 who will help protect the liberties and access to basic health care that McCain would deny women.

With your help, our Membership Drive for Choice will succeed. Please be one of 73 … I’m sure a woman you know will thank you for it.

Sincerely,

Nancy Keenan, President
NARAL Pro-Choice America

P.S. Already a member? Please consider making an additional gift to help our fight for choice.

Granholm: McCain not good for women

Gordon Trowbridge / The Detroit News

Seeking to block an effort by John McCain to draw support from Hillary Clinton supporters, Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Saturday called for women to unify behind Barack Obama and attacked McCain's record on women's issues and the economy.

McCain's outreach to Clinton-backing women "is an effort to mask his effort on the issues important to the women who supported (Clinton)", said Granholm, who supported Clinton during her primary campaign against Obama.

Granholm spoke to reporters on a conference call organized by the Obama campaign.

McCain on Saturday was holding a "virtual town hall" teleconference with former Clinton supporters, other Democrats and independents, seeking to capitalize on divisions created by Democrats' long and at times bitter primary campaign. The McCain campaign released a list of more than two dozen Democrats and independents it said were supporting McCain.

Granholm singled out McCain's record on abortion, calling him "in lockstep with the Bush administration with respect to appointments to the Supreme Court, with the anti-choice crowd on committing to overturn Roe versus Wade." That's the Supreme Court decision upholding the legality of abortion, a decision anti-abortion activists have long sought to overturn.

"The depth of Sen. McCain's deceit when it comes to issues important to women can't be overstated," said another former Clinton supporter, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., who also was on the call.

Wasserman-Schultz pointed to McCain's opposition to a minimum-wage increase, which she said especially benefited women, and his opposition to expansion of a federal children's health insurance program.

McCain aides have said the campaign believes it can attract the votes of independents and conservative Democrats in Michigan, particularly in areas such as Macomb County and in Northern Michigan. McCain strategists believe those voters could be won over by McCain's moderate reputation and high personal approval ratings, as well as distrust of Obama and displeasure with the Michigan primary controversy.

"No matter what Sen. McCain says when he comes here, the question is, what has he done for struggling families?" Granholm said.

"Has he stood for working people, and has he stood apart from the Bush administration, which has offered no help whatsoever to the manufacturing industry in this country?"

Choking off family planning $

Title X provides basic health care to millions of low-income women.

Sen. John McCain and his anti-choice allies want to cut off funding.

Take a strong stand for reproductive-health care. Write to Congress today.

No woman should have to go without basic health care.

In 1970, this fundamental belief spurred a bipartisan coalition in Congress to set up a new program for low-income Americans, called the Title X ("ten") family-planning program.

Title X provides vital services, including pap smears, mammograms, and birth control to five million women and men every year. Family-planning services prevent unintended pregnancies and thus reduce the need for abortion. By investing in preventive health care, Title X saves taxpayers money in the long run.

Now, as our country faces a health-care crisis, anti-choice ideologues in Congress are trying to deny women access to this successful and proven program.

Click here to tell your member of Congress to fight back and fully fund Title X.

Right now, pro-family-plannning lawmakers outnumber our opponents in Congress, but by the very slimmest of margins. Last year, with new pro-choice leadership in Congress, we secured the first significant increase in Title X funding since President Bush took office, but anti-choice politicians aren't giving up.

Just last year, presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and other anti-choice senators tried to deny federal funding to health centers, including Title X clinics, that use their own privately raised dollars for abortion care (they lost). And McCain has voted to terminate the program altogether!

Help us launch the counterattack, Dottye. Title X needs your help in the face of an onslaught by McCain and his far-right allies.

Programs like Title X should remind us all why it's so important to elect pro-choice leaders this November to beat back these attacks on family planning and invest in programs like Title X that so many women rely on.

Title X has been the cornerstone of our nation's family-planning services for nearly 40 years. By providing vital care, such as cancer screenings and STD treatment, it has undoubtedly saved lives. Let's return the favor by saving Title X. Click here to send a letter to your member of Congress today.

Thank you so much for all you do.

My best,

Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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