5-24-05, 10:30 am
10. WRONG ON EQUAL PAY
Last year we learned the Bush Administration erased fact sheets about equal pay for women workers from federal government web sites. But George W. Bush can't erase his record of opposition to enforcing equal pay -- ending the Equal Pay Initiative, opposing stronger enforcement of equal pay laws, dropping sex discrimination lawsuits, and appointing a labor policy maker who calls the wage gap a 'mythical problem'.
9. WRONG ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
George W. Bush's budget cuts back on funding for emergency shelters, crisis hotlines and other desperately needed services to protect women from violence; and would end federal efforts to improve databases of stalkers.
8. WRONG ON CHILD CARE
George W. Bush's budget would cut nearly a half million children from child care programs in the next five years, and cut back on after-school programs that enable working parents to know their children are safe and well cared for after school.
7. WRONG FOR LOW INCOME WORKING WOMEN
George W. Bush opposes increasing the minimum wage, which would benefit nearly 7 million working women; and refuses to extend the child tax credit to 12 million children in lower income working families.
Women represent more than 60% of Medicare recipients. George W. Bush's prescription drug plan means higher prices and inadequate benefits for older women -- but a big gift to the drug companies!
5. WRONG ON HEALTH CARE
Women and their families are losing access to health insurance -- today, 48 million Americans are uninsured -- and health care costs continue to escalate. Bush's budget priorities have frozen funding for Maternal and Child Health, cutting access to vital services such as screenings for newborns and parental care.
4. WRONG ON EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN
George W. Bush has repeatedly broken his promises to fully fund his own education reform bill, leaving state and local governments struggling to pay the bills, our teachers overburdened and our children shortchanged. Bush's Department of Education also issued rules pertaining to federal Title IX regulations, which require gender equity in school sports programs, to provide a backdoor for colleges and universities to deny important athletic opportunities to American young women.
3. WRONG ON THE ENVIRONMENT
George W. Bush has rolled back environmental regulations that protect clean air and water, endangering our family's health; and slowed down the clean up of toxic waste sites while insisting that taxpayers -- not polluters -- pay the burden!
2. WRONG ON JUDGES
George W. Bush has nominated federal judges who are hostile to women's rights -- like ruling a breast cancer patient had no right of privacy when her doctor allowed a drug company salesman to sit in on her examination!
1. WRONG ON OUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
George W. Bush has consistently used his power to undermine our freedom to choose - selecting vehemently anti-choice judicial nominees; trying to cut funding for family planning to prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce abortion; offering heath coverage to fetuses rather than to pregnant women; overruling the government's own scientific panels to refuse over the counter sale of emergency contraception -- and his campaign strategist compares pro-choice Americans to terrorists!
