Sotomayor to the Court; Hillary to Africa; The Health Care Fight Comes Home
WILL WE FIGHT FOR HEALTH CARE?
With Congress out of session, the fight for health care reform has moved from Washington, D.C. to every congressional district. We know what the opponents are doing: shouting and fistfights at town hall meetings, trying to frighten their neighbors with rumors and scare stories.
What are we going to do?
You know how important real health care reform is to you and your family -- and to our American future. You know that our current system costs too much and leaves too many of us out, vulnerable to losing our insurance if we change jobs or one member of the family gets ill. And you know the questions that must be addressed:
- Will health care legislation include everyone, with accessible, quality health care?
- What about a public option that can keep the insurance companies honest?
- Will women's health be included? Right now, every health care reform bill approved by Congress includes women's health, enabling women to continue to see the health care providers they already use. But anti-choice forces are sending out false rumors of their own, trying to use health care legislation to further their anti-women's health agenda.
Answer rumors with reality:
Health care reform will not "expand" abortion rights. Most private health insurance already covers the full range of reproductive health care, because most women want to have that choice. Anti-choice forces want to take us backward -- to reduce the level of care that is now available to millions of women by stripping away reproductive care.
Get the facts about abortion and the health care bill at Politifact. Click here.
From our first days at No Limits we've talked about the need for health care reform. Now it's up to us to do something about it.
If your member of Congress is holding a town meeting, can you go and speak up for health care? If there is no town hall meeting, will you write or call your Senators and member of Congress?
WE CAN'T LET THE LOUDEST, ANGRIEST VOICES DROWN OUT THE REAL NEEDS OF THE REST OF US. SPEAK UP FOR HEALTH CARE NOW!!
HILLARY IN AFRICA: SHARED ASPIRATIONS, COMMON CHALLENGES -- AND DANCING
"Mrs. Clinton, who seems uncannily resistant to jet lag, visited two community housing projects and danced with children, lugged some rocks into a wheelbarrow, planted flowers, planted a tree and beamed as a choir broke out into a song about her."
- The New York Times August 9, 2009
Traveling through Africa on her eleven-day, seven-nation tour, Hillary is meeting with government officials and civic representatives, with university students and business leaders. She met with former South African President Nelson Mandela, an old friend; with HIV/AIDS patients at a health care clinic, and with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who joined discussions of improving agriculture and protecting food supplies in Kenya.
Returning to the Victoria Mxenge cooperative in South Africa, a community she first visited in 1997, Hillary remembered that early trip -- and the progress that has been made:
"I met homeless women working to transform an empty patch of land into a new community... They pooled their savings and microloans, bought shovels, poured concrete and built homes for themselves and their children...
"Yesterday I found a village of thousands of homes. The determination and spirit of the women of Victoria Mxenge underscore a basic truth: empowering women is key to global progress and prosperity."
Oh, and about the dancing:
For pictures of Hillary's trip, including her visit with Nelson Mandela, and the Victoria Mxenge Housing development, click here.
CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO WISE LATINAS
To Judge Sonia Sotomayor, sworn in on Saturday August 8, 2009 as the 111th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; the third woman in our nation's history -- and the first Latina.
And to her mother, Celia: "I am here today because of her aspirations and sacrifices for both my brother, Juan, and me" Sonia Sotomayor said at her hearing "Mom, I love that we are sharing this together."
We love it too.
THE LAST WORD
"There is no credible way to look at what has been proposed by the president or any congressional committee and conclude that these will result in a government takeover of the health-care system. That is a flat-out lie whose only purpose is to scare the public and stop political conversation."
- Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, August 7, 2009
Sincerely,
Ann F. Lewis
With Congress out of session, the fight for health care reform has moved from Washington, D.C. to every congressional district. We know what the opponents are doing: shouting and fistfights at town hall meetings, trying to frighten their neighbors with rumors and scare stories.
What are we going to do?
You know how important real health care reform is to you and your family -- and to our American future. You know that our current system costs too much and leaves too many of us out, vulnerable to losing our insurance if we change jobs or one member of the family gets ill. And you know the questions that must be addressed:
- Will health care legislation include everyone, with accessible, quality health care?
- What about a public option that can keep the insurance companies honest?
- Will women's health be included? Right now, every health care reform bill approved by Congress includes women's health, enabling women to continue to see the health care providers they already use. But anti-choice forces are sending out false rumors of their own, trying to use health care legislation to further their anti-women's health agenda.
Answer rumors with reality:
Health care reform will not "expand" abortion rights. Most private health insurance already covers the full range of reproductive health care, because most women want to have that choice. Anti-choice forces want to take us backward -- to reduce the level of care that is now available to millions of women by stripping away reproductive care.
Get the facts about abortion and the health care bill at Politifact. Click here.
From our first days at No Limits we've talked about the need for health care reform. Now it's up to us to do something about it.
If your member of Congress is holding a town meeting, can you go and speak up for health care? If there is no town hall meeting, will you write or call your Senators and member of Congress?
WE CAN'T LET THE LOUDEST, ANGRIEST VOICES DROWN OUT THE REAL NEEDS OF THE REST OF US. SPEAK UP FOR HEALTH CARE NOW!!
HILLARY IN AFRICA: SHARED ASPIRATIONS, COMMON CHALLENGES -- AND DANCING
"Mrs. Clinton, who seems uncannily resistant to jet lag, visited two community housing projects and danced with children, lugged some rocks into a wheelbarrow, planted flowers, planted a tree and beamed as a choir broke out into a song about her."
- The New York Times August 9, 2009
Traveling through Africa on her eleven-day, seven-nation tour, Hillary is meeting with government officials and civic representatives, with university students and business leaders. She met with former South African President Nelson Mandela, an old friend; with HIV/AIDS patients at a health care clinic, and with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who joined discussions of improving agriculture and protecting food supplies in Kenya.
Returning to the Victoria Mxenge cooperative in South Africa, a community she first visited in 1997, Hillary remembered that early trip -- and the progress that has been made:
"I met homeless women working to transform an empty patch of land into a new community... They pooled their savings and microloans, bought shovels, poured concrete and built homes for themselves and their children...
"Yesterday I found a village of thousands of homes. The determination and spirit of the women of Victoria Mxenge underscore a basic truth: empowering women is key to global progress and prosperity."
Oh, and about the dancing:
For pictures of Hillary's trip, including her visit with Nelson Mandela, and the Victoria Mxenge Housing development, click here.
CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO WISE LATINAS
To Judge Sonia Sotomayor, sworn in on Saturday August 8, 2009 as the 111th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; the third woman in our nation's history -- and the first Latina.
And to her mother, Celia: "I am here today because of her aspirations and sacrifices for both my brother, Juan, and me" Sonia Sotomayor said at her hearing "Mom, I love that we are sharing this together."
We love it too.
THE LAST WORD
"There is no credible way to look at what has been proposed by the president or any congressional committee and conclude that these will result in a government takeover of the health-care system. That is a flat-out lie whose only purpose is to scare the public and stop political conversation."
- Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, August 7, 2009
Sincerely,
Ann F. Lewis
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