From: Nita and Shaunna, Ultraviolet

Dear Reader,

Tomorrow, Republicans in Congress are going to vote, again, to repeal the Affordable Care Act–the most pro-woman piece of legislation in decades, and a law that is going to help tens of millions of people get health care who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford it.

They tried to defeat the bill in 2010 and they failed. They tried to get the Supreme Court to overturn it and they failed. They tried to gut birth control coverage in the bill and they failed. In fact, this will be the fourth time they have voted to completely repeal the whole law in the last few years.

Far-right conservatives have succeeded at one thing though, distracting Congress from dealing with serious issues facing our country, like the economy.

It’s time for all of us to rise up and send a strong message to these politicians: Enough is enough. Can you sign this petition telling Congress that health care is here to stay and it’s well past time to move on to urgent business–like creating jobs and ending pay discrimination against women and families?

Add your name to the petition.

The fact is that when health care reform passed and the Supreme Court upheld the law, millions of working Americans won and billionaire insurance company CEOs lost. These members of Congress just can’t accept that–and they want their giant corporate donors to know it.

In the last few years, the right-wing Congress has tried to:

Take away health care from women and families, votes they have taken repeatedly.

Cut funding for Planned Parenthood–the only source of health care for millions of low-income women.
Restrict access to reproductive health care.

Take away birth control coverage from millions of women.

Jobs? This Congress has failed to create a single job in these last two years. But they did manage to:

Reject equal pay protections for women.

Refuse to allow women and families paid sick leave so that they can care for their ailing parents or kids–or themselves–without fear of losing their jobs.

Roll back protections for survivors of domestic abuse–leaving millions of women at greater risk of violence.

This is crazy. And it’s time to let them know that we, women and men voters all over the country, are paying attention and aren’t going to let them get away with distraction politics.

Please sign today.

Add your name to the petition.

Thanks for speaking out,

–Nita, Shaunna and Kat, the UltraViolet team

Tomorrow Congress is going to vote to repeal health care, again. Can you sign this petition telling them that it’s time to accept that health care reform is here to stay? Congress has to move on to urgent business–like creating jobs and ending pay discrimination against women and families.