The National Online March for Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice

Women and men across the country are speaking out and mobilizing Jan. 22-28, on the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade ~ Join us! Click here to tell Congress and each other what we think! http://trustwomen.civicactions.org/twsilverribbon/TWW

State	Comment
Alabama	Political attacks on women’s health and reproductive freedoms are NOT small government and they diminish women’s rights to religious freedom and personal liberty.
Alabama	If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament, and DIY abortion kits would be on sale at every hardware store in the country. Get this right, or women will take this country’s government away from mysoginist conservatives. Then we’ll see who gets Viagra covered on their health insurance.
Alabama	I have the right to drive, raise children as I see fit, and the right to choose my healthcare as I see fit.
Alabama	Stop treating women like second class citizens.
Alaska	i am 64 years old. in my lifetime, we’ve come too far to lose everything we’ve gained to a bunch of old white guys with bad combovers (credit to tina fey)
Arizona	abortion without apology!
Arizona	My body, MY CHOICE.
Arkansas	Abortion saves women’s lives. End of story.
Arkansas	Conservatism is pure Evil yet our politicians embrace it with open arms. Why?
Arkansas	Arkansas men and women are at a particularly high risk for problems associated with sexual health.Our state has the third highest rate of teen births in the U.S., the seventh highest rate of Chlamydia, fifth highest of Gonorrhea and third highest of Syphilis. YET, state policy makers continue to insist that we only teach teens to stay away from sex (abstinence-only) and neglect to give them the full range of information that would help them make wiser choices about their sexual health.According to a 2010 study by the Dept. of Health, 50% of Arkansas 10th graders are sexually active and 63% of 12th graders. A survey about parent’s attitudes in 2010 revealed that 70% support COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Please stand with us to increase access to education and contraception that will help to reduce our drastic rates of teen births, STI and HIV.
California	It is the 21st century. I can’t even believe we are still having to fight on this front.
California	Keep abortion accessable, safe and legal. Due to failed birth control as a teen I would have had five, yes FIVE unwanted pregnancies. I am certain I am not alone on this. I have a beautiful family now and can support and love my children in an adult fashion. These are the REAL numbers smart women in the position of power are to be looking at. Remember if men could conceive this would NOT be an issue!!
California	Keep healthcare safe and legal for our ladies.
California	I watched my friend almost die from a back alley abortion in 1969. I will never forget. My ability to have a safe, legal abortion when I needed it 5 years later was a very different experience. We can NEVER go back. Thank you.
California	I watched my friend almost die from a back alley abortion in 1969. I will never forget. My ability to have a safe, legal abortion when I needed it 5 years later was a very different experience. We can NEVER go back. Thank you.
California	I can’t believe I am fighting ths battle again!
California	Full rights for all!
California	reproductive health education in every school
California	Women’s health, in ALL it’s forms, should remain a private matter between the individual and the healthcare professionals SHE chooses to provide her care. Caregivers should be able to practice medicine free of intimidation, be it in career- or life-threatening form. At 73, I’m old enough to know about deaths from back alley “doctors” and from self-induced abortions performed by desperate women. Stop the attack on legal and accessible access to health care for women. Keep access to abortion legal, safe, AND private.
California	As a volunteer counselor for a homeless shelter, I have witnessed the tragedy of women who have become pregnant and given birth to unwanted children who then end up in foster care, group homes or worse, homeless. Some of these women, were unwanted by their own mothers also or they were abused, and so they continue the cycle of giving birth to another unwanted baby. Sex education, birth control and funding for clinics such as Planned Parenthood is absolutely necessary to end this cycle of misery.
California	I worked to pass Roe vs Wade and will continue to defend women’s rights to abortion. Each woman must have the ability to choose for herself and not have the opinion of another person held above their own.
California	Bring education about human health and the human body to our schools. Educate our youth and get everyone to talk about that so tabu subject — SEX! Take the curiosity out of it so our girls can stand up and say “I don’t think so!!”
California	We women have the right to make our own decisions for our lives – and our bodies. Stand up to Roe v Wade now.
California	Thank you.
California	My body, my choices, my right to control. It is constitutionally my pursuit of happiness.
California	These attacks on women’s rights and health must end!
California	Restrictions harm women, and what harms women harms the country.
California	I shall not be a second-class citizen.
California	Get out of my vagina GOP! None of your business!
California	Women’s health decisions should be between them and their doctors. You wouldn’t think of regulating men’s bodies the way you do women’s.
California	Women, everywhere, united we stand!
California	We will be heard and our wishes acknowledged & respected. The power has shifted and there is no turning back.
California
California	Stop the War on Women
California	If you believe abortion is immoral, don’t have one. I and most women feel the real immorality is bringing unwanted children into this already overcrowded world. Every child deserves to be loved and wanted.
California	Doing it for my 2 daughters!
California	I trust women
California	A woman I knew died from an illegal abortion in New York City in the sixties. Please let’s not go there again!
California	I trust women!
California	Women’s health and rights are fundamental to our country. We cannot go backwards.
California	We’re building momentum and unity for our health and our rights!
California	I am thankful for the right to make my own health decisions. I hope that my elected officials will Trust Women with personal health decisions and Keep the US out of my Uterus.
Colorado	Women should be the only ones making decisions regarding their own bodies. Our country benefits from having accessible and affordable birth control, adoption options and yes, abortion care. Women are equal to men. We are intelligent beings who are capable and able to make our own decisions regarding our healthcare. And we need options. We lead different lives with different values and are in different situations. One solution will not fit. The only solution is that each of us individually have the power which is inherently ours to make decisions that are best for us. No man or government has any right to make decisions on reproductive health.
Colorado	Science- it’s true, even if you don’t believe it. Birth control is an effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancy, and should be available to all women.
Colorado	All of the above!!! My body, my voice , my right!
Connecticut	Without an abortion at 19, you would be calling me a “loose woman”, or worse and berating me for using TANF. Instead I have been a very productive tax payer for the last 27 years.
District Of Columbia	Stop treating abortion services as something separate from all other medical care.
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District Of Columbia	Access to preventative health services is key — policymakers, stop meddling!
District Of Columbia	Men who love women support women’s health care, including reproductive rights.
Florida	Supporting this petition yes to Women Rights
Florida	Please let these doctor’s in Mississippi, have access to HOSPITAL’S! They are saving LIVE’S!!!!!!
Florida	My abortion in 1978 saved my life and any potential child’s life i jad mental health issues was poor uneducated, withoutsupport. i needed valium to stay sane. it was taken away from me to prevent birth defects. i almost died. my husband is still the same porn king he was then. If none of that existed, i have the right,and i am the only one with the right to decide whether i keep and maintain a pregnanct.
Florida	I am old enough to remember the days before Roe v Wade. Those are not times to which most people want to return.
Georgia	Keep out of womens health decisions!!
Georgia	We won’t go back to 1973.
Hawaii	Let us not return to times of hanger and back-alley abortions.
Illinois	I worked in an abortion clinic for a dozen years, and I have seen first-hand the ways women make decisions–with their whole hearts and their minds. We all need to trust women to do the best they can, even in difficult situations.
Illinois	Women think and make their own decisions. Make sure they have affordable accessible options!
Indiana	Women died in the past – we are not going back!
Iowa	Protect women’s lives, health, and dignity. Please support reproductive justice.
Kansas	I am an intelligent, adult woman and I don’t need anyone else making health care decisions for me; do not limit my options and do not attempt to control me.
Louisiana	Pro choice IS pro family. Law has no place in deciding reproductive rights for any individual.
Maine	That we are still fighting for women’s rights today is a sad indictment on our society. But we will not give up the fight. My body, my choice!
Maine	Please do not repeat this part of America’s history. Please lets not return to the days of ‘back alley’ abortions and women dying? Please?
Maryland	If you decide not to cover HC for women for Birthcontrol or abortions despite medical reasons. Then coverage for vasectomies and Viagra(9 per mo) and Cialis should not be paid either despite medical reasons. Let old men in Congress etc rethink no anesthesia for their penis procedure and have to be done by seeking a non liscensed physician. Or illegally having to purchase erectile dysfunction meds.
Maryland	The Center for Women Policy Studies joins our sisters worldwide to support reproductive rights and justice through our work with women elected officials in USA and globally.
Massachusetts	At 62 years old, I no longer need to be concerned with birth control or abortion. But I clearly remember the days when women were way too often found dead in a make shift office after a non-medical person had attempted to abort her baby and killed them both instead. Or they would end up with life threatening infections, sometimes not living through it. No sterilized equipment was used. Instead the tool of choice was a coat hanger. It is frightening to think that we might go back to that archaic practice. Women deserve more than that. We deserve qualified medical doctors to look after us. We deserve to make the decision to take birth control and have an abortion if deemed necessary. Nobody should be able to make that decision for us. Young women need the education and assistance of Planned Parenthood. We are American citizens, we vote, we are a large part of the American work force, and we have rights. My religion does not effect my decision to do any of the above. And if it did, I would still consider it my choice to make a decision about my body and my life.We are a huge part of this country and we are asking for you to listen and hear what we say.Please note that I have not separated women by color, race or income. All women are equal.
Massachusetts	I remember when abortion was illegal. Those were scary days. Women died. We must move forward not backward!
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Michigan
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Michigan	This country needs a safe, legal, cheap abortion clinic in every town, village, & city.
Michigan	If dont stay for our rights nothing will be accomplished
Michigan	I am a woman and I vote!
Michigan	In am woman, hear me ROAR!
Michigan	The only people who should be concerned about what goes on inside my uterus are me, my husband and my doctor!! The government needs to fix our economy and stay out of my family planning decisions!!!
Minnesota	Keep your laws off my body!
Minnesota	Never assume that you know what is right for another person, and never assume that you understand why a woman would make this choice.
Minnesota	Frankly, I cannot believe we are still having issues with this. We must not allow our society to move backwards!!
Minnesota	I had an illegal abortion in 1971 – lucky and grateful I survived. I want my daughter to have safe and legal choices.
Missouri	Every person and their family has a different situation. No one should be able to dictate a result for all without knowing the particular circumstances. Educate, don’t dictate.
Missouri	If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.–Gloria Steinem
Missouri	1 out of 4 women are physically or sexually abused in their lifetime–abusive men prevent women from having safe, protected sex. millions of our tax dollars go to medicaid to support women who would have been able to be productive citizens if only they weren’t forced or coerced or threatened to have child after child and to stay home and take care of the children because childcare is too expensive and the economy makes finding work tough. Not to mention the ever growing expense from State Child Protective Services, the family courts, and law enforcement officials who are involved with these families.
Missouri	It’s my body, not yours.
Montana	Undermining women’s rights undermines the economic and poltical health of this country.
Montana	It’s important to stand up for reproductive rights on this important anniversary and roll back the pernicious attacks on women’s rights to control their own bodies.
Nebraska	To reproduce or not to reproduce, an individual choice, not a legislative body.
New Hampshire	Prevent unwanted pregnancy by access to affordable birth control to all women. Keep planned parenthood funded.
New Jersey	We won’t allow anyone but ourselves to make this important choice for ourselves and for our daughters….THIS DECISION IS MINE TO MAKE, NO ONE ELSE’S!!!
New Jersey	Keep religion in churches! Civil law should not be used to prevent religious crimes.
New Jersey	It’s 2013, not 1913!
New Jersey	I am a woman and I think I know what is good for my body – only I and my doctor have the rights to make decisions about my personal choices.
New Jersey	Abortion has been since the beginning of time, and will continue to be, a personal decision that women make for themselves and their families that must remain protected from government infringement.
New Mexico	NO man has the right to tell ANY woman what she can do with her own body.It’s NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!
New York	Time to stop the right wing attacks on women’s bodily autonomy and personal decision making.
New York	Proud to be a reproductive health care provider, including medical abortions!
New York	It is a personal decision between a woman and her health care provider.
New York	Abortion must not only be kept safe and legal. Access must be enabled for the widest swathe of society possible, which means eliminating socio-economic and socio-cultural barriers.
New York	Are you every woman’s doctor? Should you be making every woman’s healthcare decisions? Do you know that minorities and low-income women are disproportionately effected by lack of access to reproductive healthcare? If it’s not your body it’s not your choice.
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New York	I was 13 when Roe V Wade was decided. I am of the first generation whose right to choose has been protected over her entire reproductive life cycle. I trust the women I grew up with to decide to be mothers when and only when they want to be mothers, and I trust them to care for those children when they have them. I also respect their right not to have children.This is about whether the State or Women, have the right to decide if, when and how times a woman is to be come a mother, after all. I trust the women, over the State.
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New York	Reproductive rights are a vital part of healthcare!
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New York	Who better than me and you and you…and you to decide what to do with our bodies…who to sleep with…when to have children and when not to…how to care for our families…how to protect our futures…I trust womyn of all shapes and sizes…colors and creeds…
North Carolina	I’m a human being, and I’m fully capable of making decisions about my own body!!!
Ohio	Respect our bodies we all have choices support our Women we know what were able to do .
Ohio	I will never vote for any politician who attempts to circumvent Roe v.Wade or infringes upon women’s right to their bodies. Period.
Ohio
Ohio	Keep abortion safe, legal, and RARE
Ohio
Ohio	Quit using religion as an excuse to oppress women! We will not stand for it!
Oregon	I Trust women to make their own decisions concerning their reproductive health.
Oregon	Those who are the most vocal opponents of “big government” do so without any regard to the hypocrisy of demanding governmental invasion of our bedrooms and women’s uteruses.
Oregon	It is a private matter as to what an individual does or doesn’t do regarding her reproductive health and body. It is against the very principles this nation was founded upon to legislate otherwise. It is wrong for any government, group or individual to attempt to dictate what a woman chooses regarding her ability to procreate. Do your job. Protect women’s right to control her body.Please. Thank you.
Oregon	I trust ALL women to make choices about their bodies and to decide what is best for their families!!!
South Dakota	It is my body, my right to do as I please. Trust me, I know what’s best for my body! Hey government, stay out of my uterus!
Tennessee	Legislating women’s rights is not an option. If you want to end unwanted pregnancies, legislate men keeping their penises in their pants and see how far you get.
Tennessee	I had an abortion at age 14 that helped me escape an abusive relationship, and I want my daughter to have the same reproductive choices that I had.
Tennessee	Women should be responsible for their health decisions.
Texas	Rick Perry is stealing our taxpayer money, and does not represent me.. or Ted Cruz .. bye Tea party Repubs, Separation of church and state!
Texas	Women deserve nothing less than respect and autonomy of our own bodies.
Texas	Every child deserves to be planned. Treat women with the dignity they deserve.
Texas	my body my choice
Texas	all women deserve the right to chose what they do regarding their own reproductive health.
Texas	Having the ability to make all choices about our own body should NEVER be taken from a woman.
Texas	it is my right and my choice.
Virginia	My husband loves me–and trusts women–so much that he made a point of mentioning freedom of choice in our wedding vows. We need more men like him to trust us to make decisions about our health care & human rights.
Virginia	Denying access to affordable, safe, legal abortions would be tantamount to a death sentence for some. To the extent possible, a woman has the unalienable right to control what happens with her own body. This includes access to birth control. All decisions concerning reproductive health should be left to women and their physicians. Keep politics out of it.
Virginia	Fix the economy and stay out of my vagina!
Washington	In the 21st century it is amazing to me that we are fighting the women’s reproductive rights issue again, over 40 years after Roe v. Wade. We won back then. Undoing that law would be so cruel. Please support Women’s Heath Rights in all forms.
Washington	I track legislation.
West Virginia	LEAVE ROE V WADE ALONE. YOU WILL SEND THE WOMEN TO THE BACK ROOM WITH COAT HANGERS AGAIN. HER BODY’S SHOULD BE PLACED IN THE GOV. OFFICE FOR SHOW AND TELL. DON’T DO THIS!!!!!
West Virginia	Threats are continuing to women’s long-term economic and social security and safety. I uphold traditional American values of democracy, independence, fairness, progress, innovation and pragmatism. These values do not seem to exist fully for women, especially after Roe v Wade was passed that legalized abortion in the United States.
Wyoming	My health care decisions are between me and my doctor.
Wyoming	Today is an important day for women and for humankind. We refuse to turn the clock back.

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