Wasserman Schultz: ‘It’s Time Romney And The Rest of The Republican Party End The War on Women They Started’
By Elizabeth Harrington
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) chairs the Democratic National Committee. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – Warning that his “anti-women” stance would cost him votes in his campaign for the White House, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said Friday presidential candidate Mitt Romney needs to end the Republican “war on women.”
During a conference call briefing accusing Romney of “pandering to the extreme right-wing of his party on the issues that matter to Washington women,” Wasserman Schultz and representatives from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America singled out the former Massachusetts governor as a politician who would “allow big corporations to deny health care options to their female employees.”
The call also included a statement from a Catholic hospital nurse who claimed birth control is so expensive she has to stay on her parents’ health care plan.
“Playtime is over when it comes to women’s health decisions and no one needs to hear this message more than Mitt Romney,” said Wasserman Schultz, who chairs the Democratic National Committee and sponsored the call to targeted Washington state voters ahead of their caucuses. Romney won on Saturday, further cementing his status as frontrunner.
Wasserman Schultz went on to say Romney’s reversal on the Blunt Amendment – which sought to insert conscience rights into ObamaCare – was not his first “flip-flop when it comes to women.”
Romney initially said he opposed the measure, before clarifying and declaring his support, saying that he had misunderstood the question as referring to a state law limiting access to contraception. The amendment failed a vote in the Senate Thursday, 51 to 48.