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The facts about the Republican attacks on women’s health

Here's all the evidence you need to prove that the Republican attacks on women's health are not the "fiction" RNC chair Reince Priebus believes:
 
Defunding Planned Parenthood: Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said that as president, he would "get rid of" federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the health care provider for millions of American women.
 
Personhood bills: States like Mississippi and Oklahoma have tried to enact so-called "personhood" bills that would end some forms of birth control and even in vitro fertilization. Romney said he would "absolutely" support such a bill.
 
Blunt-Rubio amendment: Senators Roy Blunt and Marco Rubio tried to pass a bill letting any employer deny their female employees affordable preventive care like contraception on "moral" grounds.
 
Virginia ultrasound law: Governor Bob McDonnell signed into law a bill allowing the government to force Virginia women to undergo a medically unnecessary ultrasound before they can receive an abortion.
 
Repealing Obamacare: Republicans, led by their presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which ends gender discrimination by insurance companies and ensures all American women can afford quality health care.
 
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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Statement on RNC Chair Reince Priebus Dismissing Republican Att

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on recent comments by RNC Chair Reince Priebus dismissing Republican attacks on women as “fiction” and as fictional as a “war on caterpillars”:

“While it’s no secret that Republicans on the campaign trail and in Congress have been advocating for and implementing policies that would take women backward, to have the head of the GOP say these attacks on women are as fictional as a ‘war on caterpillars’ is callous and dismissive of what matters to women and completely out of touch.  Chairman Priebus and the Republican Party know they have a serious problem on their hands: Mitt Romney and the Republican Party are seeing a serious deficit among women voters, who are simply fed up with Romney and the other Republican candidates advocating for policies that would hurt women and take us backward instead of focusing on jobs and restoring economic security for the middle class.

“Whether he’s vowing to ‘get rid of’ Planned Parenthood funding, calling Roe v. Wade ‘one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history’ or declaring his support for the Blunt-Rubio Amendment, which would take women’s health decisions out of their hands and give it to their bosses, there is nothing fictitious about Mitt Romney’s anti-women agenda.  Chairman Priebus should know better and no amount of dismissive statements can change the facts: Mitt Romney and the Republican Party aren’t standing up for the issues important to women and their families, and women know it.”

 

Tune into our debate HQ at 8 pm ET

After a several-week hiatus, there's another Republican presidential debate on tonight. There's a lot of ground for the Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and the remaining candidates to cover, so we're going to be holding them accountable as they distort their records and make baseless attacks against the President.

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Tonight on CBS, Republican presidential candidates are debating each other on national security and foreign policy in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Tonight, the Republican presidential candidates will debate each other in Michigan. Not only will we be watching—but we'll also be fact checking every mistruth, inconsistency and record distortion they make.

Follow along at our debate headquarters page beginning at 8 p.m. ET.