Stupak-Pitts Amendment Generates Local Protest:
Joe Pitts MUST GO!
On Saturday Morning, November 21, 2009, Pennsylvania NOW, National NOW, and Planned Parenthood PA Advocates held a protest rally against Rep. Joe Pitts for co-authoring the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the health care reform bill that passed in the US House of Representatives on Nov. 7, 2009. During the rally, the National Organization for Women's President, Terry O’Neill,announced NOW PAC’s endorsement of Lois Herr for this seat (see below). |
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PA NOW President, Joanne Tosti-Vasey Speaks Out at RallyWest Chester, PA, November 21, 2009, Comments by Joanne Tosti-Vasey: We are here today to express our outrage and anger at Joe Pitts for co-authoring an amendment to the health care reform. Rather than expanding health care coverage to all, Pitts’ amendment is clearly designed to deny full, lawful reproductive health care to half of the population. (go to full statement.) |
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