BREAKING: The "Let Women Die" Act
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM
| “…when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor of health care providers … it’s just appalling,” -- Nancy Pelosi Peace -- We have to act fast. House Republicans are set to vote today on a bill that would go even farther than Republicans’ previous efforts to restrict women’s access to reproductive health care.Today? What day? I got this at 2:51 in the afternoon, my time, on a Thursday, pretty much end of business day in much of the country. Shall I fax you this donation, or... exactly how is it going to reach you in time to take effect, 'today'? Or am I really contributing to the 'fund more annoying "CONTRIBUTE" emails' coffers? Every message I get from these people, and I get one or two a day most days (or so it seems, and perception matters in marketing), tells me about some 'imminent threat' to which if I do not donate 'just $3' their whole campaign will collapse. Well guess what, if I don't have three dollars to contribute I think we've got bigger problems than the collapse of your campaign. It's weird, no one has any money and suddenly the government is running out, too. Funny how that works. This GOP bill would allow emergency rooms to refuse women life-saving healthcare. Pundits are calling it the “Let Women Die” act. We must act immediately to call out the right-wing Republicans behind this assault on women. We’ve set a goal of raising $100,000 for the DCCC Women’s Health Rapid Response Fund so we can hold these Republicans accountable. Please make an urgent contribution of $3 or more to the DCCC Women’s Health Rapid Response Fund. Your generous support will send a powerful show of grassroots strength against the Republicans’ extreme agenda.Again, bigger problems. If we're focused on funding you, we're not paying attention to the practical needs and benefits of the people of whom this campaign is meant to be in favor. If the government can no longer provide health care, we'd better hope that doctors start acting on principle and doing the right thing regardless of what any law or corporation says. I suspect that at heart they are human beings, and that when it comes down to it a significant number will continue to practice the best medicine they're able. I just hope that we choose to change things carefully, so they're working with advancements in science and technology, not struggling to get back to even where we are now from a catastrophic failure of the system.
Dept. of Grassroots Activism [Radical call to arms, over-dramatization of the issue, bringing in past dramatic issues to inflame passions and distract from fact-checking and seeking a balanced picture of the bill from a non-partisan standpoint. Don't need it, find it condescending.]
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