Why women won't vote for John McCain

June 12, 2008 - PRLog -- Why women won't vote for John McCain

To all of your frustrated Hillary Clinton supporters: Everyone understands that you are upset that the 1st woman to really have a chance to become president lost the nomination, and it was close...damn close, but now you have to realize that Obama is by far a much better leader then John McCain.

Realize that McCain does not care if he sends your brothers, husbands, sons, and daughters to Iraq, or even to Iran, as he doesn't think it is "too important" when they come back home. John McCain will inevitably nominate supreme court justices that will overturn Rowe vs. Wade. McCain also believes public funding for abortion or for organizations that advocate for abortion, should be prohibited - BUT you knew all this information right? Well, I hope you did, but I'm sure you probably didn't know this:

McCain Voted to Gut the Family and Medical Leave Act. In 1993, before finally voting for the Family and Medical Leave Act, McCain voted to jeopardize leave for millions of workers by gutting the bill. He voted to suspend the Family and Medical Leave Act unless the federal government certified that compliance would not increase business expenses or provide financial assistance to businesses to cover any related costs.

McCain said President Bush's Veto on SCHIP was "the right call." The State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, was established by the federal government ten years ago to provide health insurance to children in families at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line. The Democratic leadership of Congress in 2007 proposed a massive expansion of SCHIP that would have extended federal health insurance coverage to children in families making as much as $82,600 per year, which ultimately would have made 71 percent of America's children eligible for federal health insurance assistance, a form of welfare. The Congressional leadership proposed funding this dramatic expansion with an increase in the tobacco tax. It was vetoed by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2007. Sen. John McCain, told CNN he agreed with President Bush's veto of legislation expanding a children's health insurance program, saying the bill provided a "phony smoke and mirrors way of paying for it." He later said "Right call by the president."

McCain opposed spending $100 million to prevent unintended and teen pregnancies. In 2005, McCain voted NO to allocate $100 million to expand access to preventive health care services that reduce the numbers of unintended and teen pregnancies and reduce the number of abortions. So he's not only aganist abortions but he is also aganist finding out how to prevent them?

McCain opposed legislation requiring that abstinence-only programs be medically accurate and scientifically based.
McCain voted NO on legislation that would help reduce the number of teen pregnancies by providing funding for programs to teach comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education and other programs to prevent unintended teen pregnancies.

McCain opposed requiring insurance coverage of prescription birth control.
In 2003, McCain voted NO on legislation to improve the availability of contraceptives for women and to require insurance coverage of prescription birth control.

McCain Opposed Equal Pay Bill for Women. In April 2008 Sen. John McCain skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which “restores the longstanding interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act,” overturned last year by a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling. McCain explained his opposition to the bill by claiming it “opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.” Later, he added that instead of legislation allowing women to fight for equal pay, they simply need "education and training".

“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else,” McCain said. “And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them. It’s a vicious cycle that’s affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least,” he said.
The issue was not “education and training.”

When denied equal pay by her supervisor, Lilly Ledbetter was doing the exact same job as her male counterparts and received numerous performance-based awards.

...and finally

The New York Times Web site reported the following exchange with a reporter in Iowa in March 2007:

Q: "What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush's policy, which is just abstinence?"

McCain: (Long pause) "Ahhh. I think I support the president's policy."

Q: "So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?"

McCain: (Long pause) "You've stumped me."
Need I say more?