Representative Walsh: Stop Spreading Lies

Tell Congressman Joe Walsh to stop spreading hypocritical lies about women's health care.

Goal: 15,000 • Progress: 1,381

Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site

Illinois Representative Joe Walsh keeps saying, "This is not about women. This is not about contraceptives. This is about religious liberties."

But his support of cutting health care benefits to women isn't about liberty at all — it's about imposing his own views on everyone else.

President Obama's mandate says no institution can deny its employees the option for birth control on the basis of religion — meaning no group can dictate to a woman what she should or shouldn't do based on its religious views. Walsh wants to open the door to institutions making all employees follow their religious beliefs and that's a dangerous road to go down. What's next? Telling employees they must keep their hair or faces covered at work? Telling them what type of relationships will or won't be tolerated?

Let's make this truly about liberty, Rep. Walsh, and not let religious beliefs become a loophole for ignoring the law of the land.

Dear Representative Joe Walsh:

I have taken issue with some of your recent comments regarding the issue of mandated birth control coverage. During an all-male meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, you said of the situation, "This is not about women. This is not about contraceptives...is about religious freedom. This is about religious liberties."

I am writing to reveal to you just how hypocritical that statement is. You're claiming that mandating safe, effective medication that keeps women healthy and helps them prevent unplanned pregnancies is an assault on religious freedom. Yet, isn't forcing women to live without necessary treatment due to her employer's religious beliefs a form of religious persecution as well?

You need to realize that birth control isn't about you or religion; it's simply about giving women the power to make their own informed choices.

You are trying to stymie the progress women have made over centuries, and I won't stand for it. Stop your hypocritical and selfish discourse now.

Sincerely,

Petition Signatures

May 24, 2013 kathleen feathers

May 21, 2013 Andrea Frankel If it offends your religious sensibilities, YOU don't have to use it! But my religion stresses each child being a wanted child, which means that I need access to contraception to fulfill MY religious obligations!

May 20, 2013 (Name not displayed)

May 19, 2013 Robina Ingram-Rich

May 18, 2013 Christine Zimmermann

May 17, 2013 Shauna Sparlin

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May 16, 2013 Alexandre Pereira

May 15, 2013 Julia Wellman

May 15, 2013 yolanda figueroa

May 15, 2013 andrew buglass

May 15, 2013 Maria Miguel

May 15, 2013 Sally B. Smith

May 15, 2013 (Name not displayed)

May 15, 2013 Linda Bescript Separation of Church and State. Remember that?

May 6, 2013 Kenneth Davies

May 5, 2013 Penny Pursley

May 4, 2013 Deborah Ginsberg

May 4, 2013 baez stephanie

May 3, 2013 (Name not displayed)

May 3, 2013 Terry Smith

May 3, 2013 Morag Miller

May 3, 2013 Llewelyn LaVista

May 3, 2013 Lauren Lunde

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Apr 28, 2013 Laurie Kehl

Apr 27, 2013 Beth Malone

Apr 26, 2013 sandra patterson

Apr 24, 2013 Jan Blanchard What a sicko you are Joe Walsh! Let me know when you become a 'woman' because only then will your opinion be valued. Go back a few hundred years where you belong. Can't imagine being a woman in your family. I wouldn't stand for your rot.

Apr 24, 2013 Ernst Mecke

Apr 23, 2013 Barbara Policriti

Apr 22, 2013 Stephanie Reap

Apr 22, 2013 Karen Parks

Apr 21, 2013 Zee Kallah

Apr 21, 2013 Amanda Davis

Apr 14, 2013 Amy Mulvany

Apr 13, 2013 isabel serodio

Apr 12, 2013 Daniel Drew

Apr 11, 2013 Arlo Jones

Apr 11, 2013 Nerry Jimenez

Apr 10, 2013 Casey Phillips