PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 28, 2011
Contact: Adriadn Ortega, (919) 821-2777, ext. 302
CHAIRMAN PARKER: WOMEN'S RIGHTS VETERANS WILL FIGHT AGAIN
RALEIGH - North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker warned Republican legislators that they should expect fierce outcry from women who fought the women's rights struggles of the 20th century, only to see their gains narrowed by the passage of HB854, the "Women's Right to Know" Act.
"Sixty-, seventy- and eighty-year-old women are ready and willing to fight the battles of their youth all over again if that's what it takes to secure their granddaughters health and reproductive freedom. Republicans have woken a massive bloc of the voting population with this law. The women who fought this bigotry in their twenties will do it again in their seventies; that means voting Democratic in 2012."
"This General Assembly has been merciless in their attacks on women, if it's this bill or the firing of female educators. Pat McCrory and the Republicans cannot put the genie back in the bottle, women can vote, women can run, and they won't forget."
Parker thinks this law unfairly singles out women for government intervention in their most private health decisions.
"Show me a law that commands government counseling for men in any medical situation. I doubt a bill enforcing a waiting period for Viagra would go very far in this Republican legislature."
North Carolina Republicans have chipped away at the gains made by every popular movement of the 20th century, from civil rights to women's rights to voting rights-- and they have done it after winning an election they claimed was about jobs.
"It wasn't about jobs, it was about social control."
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