While polls appear to show the candidates in a dead heat, one thing's never been more certain: Women could very well determine the election's outcome. Women who are concerned about various issues -- mainly, the economy and jobs, but also how each candidate and their party feel about our individual rights. As we've seen over the past couple of years, the Republican party has touted "hands-off" government, but seem to be more interested than ever in creating stifling regulations around rape, abortion, and various other issues related to women's reproductive freedoms.
And some women -- like Lena Dunham (Girls), singer Sia, Mae Whitman (Parenthood), Natasha Lyonne (American Pie), and more -- have had enough. In a new, chillingly amazing PSA, they've banded together to send politicians a message via Lesley Gore's 1963 hit, "You don't own me!" Check it out ...
Wow, right? As Gore mentions, it's so frustrating to think that we're still fighting some of the very same battles she faced when "You Don't Own Me" was a brand-new single. But if we want to speak out against this ongoing fight, protect our reproductive rights, and witness progress, the choice on November 6 is very, very clear.
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You know seriously I'm tired of people thinking that because I am a woman, I must be too dumb to be responsible for "my" own body. Every womany is entitled to have sex when, how,and with whoever they want to but really it is no one else's responsibility to take care of you if you end uppregnant. A strong, independent woman understand that she is the only one who can decide if and when she gets pregnant. I'm tired of the whining, pay for my birth control, pay for my abortion, pay to feed my kids, pay to clothe and shelter my kids. If you are big enough to have sex, know that with sex comes the chance of pregnancy and if you aren't willing or able to roll the dice on your future, then do the right thing and protect yourself and demand that the men you sleep with also use protection. I'm sorry but we are in 2012 and if it's still a mystery to you on how babies are conceive, then do everyone including yourself a favor and stop having sex.
I don't see where irresponsibility comes in.
I expected our birth control to be paid for by my health insurance, because my health insurance paid for all my medications. Now, if we wanted health insurance to pay for only necessary medications, and not viagra, anti-baldness medication and antibiotics ("you should know if you insist on going into the world, you might get infectious diseases. It's your own fault"), that would be different. Please note, my health insurance did pay for birth control for my husband and I.
Of course, this would all go out the window if I were raped, because my husband's vasectomy wouldn't protect me and I really don't think I should need major surgery or nasty hormones just in case someone chooses to rape me.
In any case, we are taking care of the children we had when we wanted to (because we were careful and our birth control didn't fail and I haven't been raped), and now we'd like to provide education and basic help for families, because my religion makes me want to help all children, even those with irresponsible parents.
I do agree that women are not a monolithic voting bloc. Some of my friends are for, others against legal abortion, even if both mother and child will die. Others believe that almost all birth control is morally wrong and should be illegal. We can all vote.
Totally need entertainers to tell me what I need to do to protect my body. I'm doing that already pretty well, Thanks.