Women of Wisconsin need to wake up and walk away from Governor Walker. Since his election in 2010, Gov. Scott Walker has split Wisconsin down the middle and created debates with every signature. His latest signature ended up on Act 219, the Repeal of the Equal Pay Enforcement Act of 2009. In Wisconsin, women receive 75 cents to every man's dollar, lower then the national average of 77 cents. Wisconsin women are getting paid less then men and even other women across the country. This bill takes away a woman's day in court after finding out her paycheck is less then her male counterparts'. Walker's team was lobbied by the Wisconsin Restaurant Association and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce which supported the Repeal, these two organizations have made it clear they do not stand on the side of pay equity. Gov. Walker has made a few public statements in defense of this repeal. The Republican logic of this argument becomes this: Employers are always sexist against women, and the Equal Pay Act makes it easier for them to be sexist and protect themselves. They claim it creates a glass ceiling effect similar to the minimum wage. And finally, women choose to be paid less then men and therefore businesses which consider cost, above all else, will therefore choose to hire the woman because she is cheaper labor then the man considered for the same position.Here's how this policy harms the economy: Women control 12 trillion dollars out of the 18.4 trillion dollars in discretionary spending. In 75% of households women are the primary shoppers. With this amount of money moving through the hands of women we have the spending power to bounce the economy back on track. If you make it harder for women to earn their money, you decrease that purchasing power. We women love shopping, that feel of that new bag, that new pair of pink shoes, that little black dress, we love to spend and shop and consume. The doom-and-gloom economy has made us have to tighten our purses and save up our money for a rainy day. Tell Scott Walker you demand pay equality, demand that little black dress, demand those new shoes, and the right to earn it in court!
My pro-life girls should consider the previous paragraph enough of a slap in the face against women, the following may not agree with your ideology. Be warned - pro-choice liberalism coming up...
The second piece of legislation to be graced by Gov. Walker's signature is the Coercive and Webcam Abortion Prevention Act; authored by Sen Mary Lazich and Rep Michelle Litjens. Lazich has said this bill will "save lives" and allows "women aborting to do so freely and with proper access to a doctor." This bill criminalizes doctors who provide medical services over the webcam while a woman is going through a medically induced abortion. Another aspect of the law is determining if a woman has been coerced or forced into an abortion, doctors must offer domestic abuse services if they feel the woman has been pressured. This bill outlaws a common practice of using a webcam to receive medical advice. This law is incredibly vague and nearly impossible to enforce. It criminalizes a doctor's conversation with any woman in his practice if he does not offer certain advice or alternatives. Because this deliberately murky law has been signed by Gov Walker on April 9th, Planned Parenthood has been forced to stop offering medically induced abortions, which are 25% of all abortions performed by Planned Parenthood clinics. This viable medical option is no longer on the table for Wisconsin, that choice has been stripped. In order to receive a surgical abortion, which is still offered by Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Madison and Milwaukee, you must visit the doctor 3 separate times before receiving that legal medical service. In no way does this allow women more freedom or privacy when needing an abortion. Planned Parenthood has already been attacked by Walker in stripping funds that provide preventative services like breast cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing, and contraception. We need to protect our reproductive rights, our inherent right to choice. A perfectly safe method of abortion which afforded privacy is no longer allowed for you, even if you have been raped, you must be surgically penetrated and can no longer grieve your loss without being lectured.
Wisconsin lost 4500 jobs in March, many of them in retail, a business dominated by women. The biggest issue in these upcoming elections is jobs. Unemployment will determine the mood of the public and will stir economic issues. Women make up the largest bloc of undecided voters, our vote has so much power. Scott Walker's agenda is to limit the rights of women, every single woman across Wisconsin. With these signatures, he has done nothing to put Wisconsin back to work. Wisconsin women can determine the course of the Recall election against Scott Walker. Money talks and we women control a lot of it! We need to Recall Governor Walker, he is no good for Wisconsin's women!
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