U.S. Conference Of Mayors Passes Pro-Choice Resolution

[Tx4obama]

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, a non-partisan organization made up of representatives from about 1,200 cities across the country, voted on Saturday to pass a resolution in support of women's reproductive rights and funding for Planned Parenthood.

The resolution outlines the numerous efforts by state and federal lawmakers over the past several years to restrict women's access to abortion and family planning services, including attempts to mandate ultrasounds before abortions, defund Title X and Planned Parenthood, ban abortions after 20 weeks, jeopardize access to birth control, compel the Internal Revenue Service to audit rape survivors who have abortions and allow hospitals to refuse emergency abortion care to women. The mayors promise to fight back against these efforts in the future and speak out on behalf of their female constituents.

The resolution "affirms the importance of women’s reproductive rights" and "urges Congress and the states to pursue a positive agenda that reaffirms fundamental rights and improves women’s access to safe and comprehensive reproductive-health care."

Some of its leading sponsors include Michael Bloomberg of New York City, Ed Lee of San Francisco, Mike McGinn of Seattle, Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, Pedro Segarra of Hartford, Conn. and Sam Adams of Portland, Ore.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/us-conference-of-mayors-pro-choice_n_1604407.html

[riverbendviewgal]

1. Good news but

I think these mayors may be placing themselves in danger with the crazies.

[47of74]

4. True

Especially those that stand behind the pulpit and gladly engage in communion wars.

[freshwest]

2. Excellent news! May a better crop of governors follow suit. I never thought of this alternative.

[gopiscrap]

3. Excellent

[NC_Nurse]

5. Unfortunately, even though the cities have way more population, rural folks

in the U.S. have way more representation in the state and U.S. legislatures, per capita. Gerrymandering takes care of any attempt to fix that, so the will of those that often don't see the downside of their beliefs continues to be imposed on the rest of us.

Perhaps we shouldn't let the Repubs call them the "real Americans" when they are such a small amount of the populace and represent a smaller and smaller part of the demographic of the U.S.