VA A.G. Ken Cuccinelli: Don't let bosses deny women birth control 29JAN13

VIRGINIA A.G. ken cuccinelli continues his war on women, telling employers to break the law and deny women access to birth control in health care plans. He actually equates this to civil disobedience a la the civil right movement. And while he claims to be pro life he supports cuts to social safety net programs in Virginia that improve the quality of life for children and entire families. His hypocrisy knows no bounds, he is blinded by his extreme right wing social engineering, and wants to bring his "christian" sharia form of government to the Commonwealth as our next governor! Please sign the petition to cuccinelli and gov mcdonnell demanding enforcement of the ACA in Virginia including a woman's access to birth control.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is far out of the mainstream when it comes to women's health. His entire career has been an exercise in trying to reduce and deny women access to care. He has co-sponsored "personhood" measures that would give full legal rights to fertilized eggs, supported defunding Planned Parenthood, and was the first attorney general to file a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—on the same day the bill was signed into law.

Now, he's trying to find ways to deny women access to birth control by letting your boss decide whether you get coverage through the ACA. What's outrageous is that he is invoking the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to support his position, saying that employers who want to deny women access to birth control should engage in civil disobedience.

In fact, Dr. King was among the first recipients of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award, and he said of health care inequality: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." Of course, Dr. King's words are the opposite of what A.G. Cuccinelli supports.

Nearly 1.4 million women in Virginia are potentially at risk of losing coverage if Cuccinelli has his way. 

That's why I created a petition on SignOn.org to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Governor Bob McDonnell, which says:

Allowing employers to deny women access to birth control isn't a civil right, it's discrimination. Stop comparing the civil rights movement to denying women health care. Stop standing in the way of health care for Virginia women.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Heather Holdridge

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