SACRAMENTO, CA — Representatives from more than 40 women rights organizations and women leaders throughout California held press conferences today in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles to urge women to vote on November 2nd to ensure women’s rights stay intact. Women leaders at the Sacramento press conference were Janice Rocco, southwest regional director of California NOW; Genevieve Shiroma, SMUD board member; and Deborah Ortiz, Vice President of Public Affairs for California, Planned ... PlannedParenthoodMarMonte MissRuby comment-39026 2010-10-16T17:27:06Z 2010-10-16T17:27:06Z I don't understand what makes Meg Whitman an enemy of women... she's pro-choice, right? I read above she supports cutting health services, is that the crux? MissRuby 2010-10-16T17:27:06Z Rich E. comment-38832 2010-10-14T12:56:35Z 2010-10-14T12:56:35Z Republicans want taxpayer-funded governmental bureaucracies that go from town to town to make sure abortions don't happen. Just like gay marriage, the government should stay out of the public's right/choice to marry whomever and a woman's right to their bodily health (i.e. abortion). Rich E. 2010-10-14T12:56:35Z Curmudgeon comment-38776 2010-10-13T17:36:02Z 2010-10-13T17:36:02Z These "poor" women can gab all day on the cell phone, but can't get a checkup without a government program, for about the cost of one month of their cell phone bill? Spare me. Curmudgeon 2010-10-13T17:36:02Z Curmudgeon comment-38775 2010-10-13T17:34:25Z 2010-10-13T17:34:25Z Well said. Even if the judicial monstrosity of Roe v. Wade was overturned (I am pro-choice, but it is a monstrosity because it reads into the constitution a non-existent "right"), the issue would get kicked back to the states. California went abortion on demand six years before Roe, under then Governor Reagan no less. Curmudgeon 2010-10-13T17:34:25Z The Parrhesiac comment-38734 2010-10-14T15:08:52Z 2010-10-14T15:08:52Z Please provide ANY reliable research that supports your proposition that aborted human beings would live a life on welfare if the government did not force taxpayers to pay to terminate their lives. There is also a big difference between making abortion illegal and forcing tax payers, who may be morally and/or religiously opposed, to pay for it. We are aborting 1.37 million humans per year who may have otherwise grown grow up to work and pay taxes - personally I'd rather have those people alive and working instead of having to import tens of millions of illegal aliens into the country to work and pay taxes to support our aging population. The Parrhesiac 2010-10-14T15:08:52Z kee comment-38730 2010-10-13T03:47:05Z 2010-10-13T03:47:05Z Regarding taxpayer funded abortions: you can fund 18 years of welfare or a one-time abortion, you decide how you want your tax dollars spent. And don't even begin to say that abortion should be illegal because a) even if roe v. wade is overturned abortions won;t stop, they just beome unsafe for the women having them, and b) i'm sure i'm right when i say that most of the millions of people against abortion (taxpayer funded or not) are NOT opening their homes to the unwanted children that are born. kee 2010-10-13T03:47:05Z dahogre comment-38726 2010-10-13T03:07:33Z 2010-10-13T03:07:33Z Wow... what a political plug. So to advertise for a political candidate - I just write an "article" supporting whoever... dahogre 2010-10-13T03:07:33Z The Parrhesiac comment-38717 2010-10-13T00:01:24Z 2010-10-13T00:01:24Z Please cite your statistics. And I said "any other right" besides taxpayer funded abortions - some call this "family planning." The Parrhesiac 2010-10-13T00:01:24Z Bananababe44 comment-38716 2010-10-12T23:54:25Z 2010-10-12T23:54:25Z How about family planning funding? That's definitely at risk. Meg Whitman said that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has the "roadmap" for the future. The same Chris Christie who cut family planning funds and as a result more than 130,000 women no longer have access to life saving breast and cervical cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment or birth control. That's too extreme for me. I'm voting for Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer. Bananababe44 2010-10-12T23:54:25Z The Parrhesiac comment-38715 2010-10-12T23:49:35Z 2010-10-12T23:49:35Z Dear Droids: Roe v. Wade cannot be overturned or threatened by anything on the November ballot it was a Supreme Court decision. Just so we clarify the issue here: Progressives want taxpayer funded abortions, and they are using scare tactics, telling women they will lose some kind of right, if they don't vote for a progressive-big-government-unionist. The irony is, only when it comes to abortion do the liberals want government to stay out of their lives. Please name any other womans "right" at risk in this election, I'm dying to hear. The Parrhesiac 2010-10-12T23:49:35Z